Poor Kermit. He tried to warn us it wasn't easy being green. But we didn't listen.
As I wrote a short while ago, schools lists have exploded with what we refer to as "grocery items", paper lunch bags, tissues, paper towels, ziploc bags, hand sanitizers, paper plates, etc. The school I noted had over $45 worth of these items in their $65 pack. Unreal.
Yet some of these schools have jumped on the "green" bandwagon. "Don't send us the supplies in those boxes", wrote one coordinator. "We're very environmentally conscious and need to protect trees".
So we sent them in non-biodegradable plastic bags. ???? Go figure.
2-3 boxes of tissues is becoming the norm for some classrooms. These tissues are apparently not coming as a a byproduct of trees. Rocks, maybe?
Of course we now know that we are saving thousands of trees by not writing letters. We just email. On our computers. On our cell phones. On our blackberries. On all those things that we have to plug in to re-charge. We save by using re-chargeable batteries. Of course our home electric bills have gone up as we leave our computers, dvrs, cable boxes, air conditioners (when we're gone) and clocks on our microwaves and dvd players running.
It isn't easy being green. Makes you wonder what other thoughts those Muppets had that have come true.
Time to go. My cell phone just rang.
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