I read the attached Saturday Evening Post story this morning. One of my blogging friends linked to it. I think it was either Scottie’s Playground or Jill Dennison’s blog. Boh are awesome at spreading good news and interesting developments. I have a habit of reading a basic post, and then, if it’s linked to another story, opening the other story. Sometimes I read it right away, but it’s not unusual for me to pin it to read later, if my coffeemeter shows my energy is sinking.
The story is about a company called Ridwell. A father and son started it. They make the connection that’s missing in many communities about what to do about zombie trash. You may have some of it in your home. Plastics and batteries and other items that your local recycling center doesn’t take which you can’t throw away because of its environmental impact. Things which pile up becaus no one locally recycles it and you can’t do anything with it yourself. I know from my experiences and friends that we have this issue in Ashlandia.
The son’s concerns and the father’s innovation, community spirit, and inventiveness is what’s really inspiring. I’m contacting our city, Ridwell, and our recycling/trash company, Recology, to see if there’s someway for us to get connected with Ridwell as part of this chain.
Ridwell is set up for that. I’ve joined with 294 others in my local region of southern Oregon to find a way to make this happen.
Michael Seidel, writer 
We have a local Batteries Plus that accepts used … VOILA! … batteries! But to me, what is REALLY needed is someone to take plastics. They are MUCH too easy to just throw away … and the pictures of our oceans prove it. Thanks for the heads up! (I hadn’t seen this before.)
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Oh, now this makes my heart sing-as much as when Scottie reallyreally likes one of my posts. I try to mostly post things that will help – well, something or someone. This one did it! And thank you so much for your work on this. It and what you’ve done are exactly those ripples Robert F. Kennedy (not the living one) talked about once:
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”-Robert Francis Kennedy, June 6, 1966.
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Great quote. Cheers
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