Reduce, reuse, and recycle

This idea is way better than "be green".

"In Thailand and Tokyo, there were 6 different kinds of recycling bins, and one small trash can. I'm thinking we're the last ones to catch on..."

In Thailand and Tokyo they also cut your hands of if they catch you throwing trash on the street...

In Thailand and Tokyo, there were 6 different kinds of recycling bins, and one small trash can. I'm thinking we're the last ones to catch on...

Have you ever noticed when you're at a hotel that there isn't a place to put your recyclables so you probably put your soda cans, water bottles, etc. in the regular garbage cans? Imagine all that wasteful garbage. I'd like to start a letter writing campaign to major hotel chains to add recycling bins on each floor of the hotel so guests can recycle.

There are tons of little pieces of plastic floating in the world's oceans that are consumed by marine life in large and often deadly quantities.

Easy ways to stop contributing to this waste are to use canvas or other reusable shopping bags, to refill a water bottle, or even better, use a Nalgene, and, silly as it may sound, to carry re-usable silverware with you when you're going to eat somewhere you know has plastic utensils.