After watching this office for quite sometime now, I have come to the conclusion that we produce a lot of garbage! Wait. I mean actual garbage. Not the shows. The shows are great. But producing so much TV and getting it out into the world produces some garbage as a bi-product. To give you a better idea of what I mean I did some digging into the waste bin to see exactly what kind of things we throw away.
First of all there is the recycling. A large portion of what is thrown away here is recyclable. All of them have to be sorted into different categories. Plastic bottles go with plastic bottles and cans go with cans. Birds of a feather as it were, flock together. And its not as simple as simply throwing them away either. The pet bottles for example have to be stripped naked of their label, de-capped and cleaned.
The single largest waste pile is paper. But paper doesn't go straight into the can. If it still has a clean side it is reused as scrap paper. Some times cut down to smaller sizes for use as a note, a bookmark or a place to put some chewing gum. After paper has made its way through a few uses it is probably eventually recycled and made again into new paper.
Some things however can't be recycled. These head for the trash, never to be seen again. But most of the waste the office produces gets used again and again. Its nice to know that something that outlived its usefulness might yet find some new use again. I wonder what they are going to do with me when my time comes? Will I come back as a paper cup? Or maybe they can use me as scrap paper. At least I will still be contributing to the office.
