Every week I load up the MINI with cardboard, plastic, magazines and glass bottles and take it all to a recycling station. In the small town where I grew up in the 50s, people burned their trash in 50 gallon oil drums. A couple of years ago we started recycling but it’s going to get more difficult in a week or so when the city ends it’s current contract. In the new Amazon world I generate a butt load of cardboard. And those slick catalogs? A tsunami and no way to stop them. It will all go in to the landfill again. At least until such time, if any, the city provides a way to recycle.

I’d love to have a recycle machine. Cut the cardboard up in to manageable pieces, toss them in, hit a button and 15 minutes later… what? A highly compressed cube of cardboard? Turn all that plastic in the solid plastic bricks that could be used in some productive way? I don’t know. I buy such a machine but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist.