I am all for recycling.  Reduce, reuse and recycle is one of my mottos.

I haul my plastic and aluminum and other recyclables to town to the recycling center.  I wish everyone did.

Now last week, the day AFTER the Super Bowl, we had a huge ice storm. In my area we got several inches of ice. Not snow, ice, in the form of tiny ice pellets.

I live in the country on a private road so travel was near impossible for a couple of days. But just a couple of days.  Of course, my road still had ice on it but it now had ruts in it to travel down.

We have trash service once a week.  We all put our big plastic bins out on the road on Thursday night.  On our scheduled trash day, the trash man didn’t come.  Guess the road was too much for him.

It’s now the following week and the same trash bins are all still sitting out on the road.  You see, sometimes the trash guy will show up later in the week.  Guess we all thought that he’d show up sooner or later.

Last night when I got home, I found trash all over the road. It was VERY windy here yesterday and trash was blowing everywhere.  Seems some wild animal, or dog got into the closest neighbors trash and caused the top bag to spill out all over the place. (They’d overfilled their big rolling container so full that it wouldn’t shut.) Who could blame a critter?  It was full of Super Bowl Party trash.

I changed into some old bum around the house clothes, grabbed a trash bag and a pair of gloves and walked over there.  I filled a big trash bag with their blowing trash.  I picked up lots of yucky paper plates, lots of bottle caps, some odds and ends, and then glass beer bottles, and aluminum beer cans. LOTS of beer cans.

Now, if everyone would recycle we wouldn’t have that issue now would we?