It was that “ah-ha” moment Betty McGee said she was hoping to get from members of First Presbyterian Church of Florence.
“It came when we put recycling into context,” she said of the Sunday morning experiment of separating trash from the pulpit into piles of what is garbage and what can be reused.
McGee said a recycling program has been in place at the church, the Shoals’ oldest organized congregation, since the 1980s, but this year, the decision was made to ratchet up the members’ commitment to the environmental cause.
Until the past few years, organized religion, Christianity in particular, has left environmental protection to activists, concerned scientists and political figures. Likewise, environmentalists have either ignored religion or complained that churches have been lukewarm about environmental causes.
[blockquote] “separating trash from the pulpit into piles of what is garbage and what can be reused” [/blockquote]
I am having a chuckle over that one!
The whole recycling thing is a lie. Just the prelude to “global warming”.
I think the only material that is actually worth while in terms of recycling is aluminum. The rest cost more to recycle than to produce new.
IIRC, steel is recycled extensively and is much cheaper to recycle than produce new. Same for untinted glass. Plastics, on the other hand, are a royal pain because of the many different types.
Perhaps I should have said “Metals” rather than just aluminum.