Having a holiday themed Starbucks on my way back to Europe for my wife now lives 10 months a year. I tried to go about every 6 weeks. I don't talk about my family much in this blog.
How many hundreds of these little plastic sticks have I generated from drinking coffee? And what exactly is their purpose? I could look it up but I assume that it is illegal office trying to avoid someone saying their hand got burned by hot coffee coming out of the little mouth spout atop the cup.
Meanwhile...
For the fifth year, Fair Trade Recycling was recognized by Europe's Recycling International as one of the "TOP 100"...
This dates back to my invitation - gracias a Jaco Huisman at STEP ("Solving the E-Waste Problem) invitation to present on a panel with two Big Shred EU processors, and Jim Puckett of BAN.org on a session titled something about the Circular Economy.
The two EU shredders talked about the "lost" copper etc. being landfilled in Africa after re-use. Jim Puckett alleged that much of it was not reused at all, and simply wound up burned in African city dumps.
Hold. My. Beer.
I am very lucky to be an American who has been descended from hardship.
I am very lucky to be an American who has been descended from hardship.
Freeland, Ingenthron, Youngblood, Fisher. All in the mirror.
So for the holidays I'm just making the connection that it's thanks to my family who have passed, and my young family who have yet to give grandchildren, that I am in this space. Happy holidays.
2026 will be the 20th year of the blog. I'm guessing that less than 10% of the blogs made any difference but that the difference the 10% made is the reason we made the top 100.
