Convenience
By Bryan Moats • Oct 6th, 2006 • Category: SustainabilityIf this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.
A well stated observation at Some Prepared Remarks. Convenience is a pretty relative thing depending on your needs and perspective, but the short, provocative thought announced here is pretty hard to disregard.
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Bryan Moats is an illustrator, designer and art technology geek at WKU. He lives with his amazing wife, two dogs and three cats in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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I like this. Makes me think about a convenience that is common place. You know, having traveled now a bit and living in Europe - I can tell you that of the countries I have spent time in - it is only the US that is so taken with convenience, It is actually hard to find plastic spoons and cups here in Switzerland. But for awhile plastic shopping bags in South Africa were known as the National Flower because they were everywhere - littering the landscape Many places in Europe and in South Africa now - YOu have to buy a shopping or ask for then as they are kept behind the counter and then you feel guilty for not bringing your own.
I am surprised that we do not have as many stray plastic bags around here. At home we have collected so many of them because that is all that is offered at the local grocery. We use them to collect the kitty litter and other random uses, but that is about it.
Every so often I pick one up off the sidewalk or out of someone’s bushes on the way home from work. Generally, though, the landscape is free of them. Maybe, at least, we’ve gotten good at keeping them indoors, if not avoiding them altogether. The obvious solution being purchasing a few canvas bags or taking old plastic bags back to the grocery store. Not exactly convenient for large shopping trips, but better than nothing.