Recyclers on Strike
A movie in the spirit of Brassed Off! about workers at recycling plants across the United States getting fed up with low wages and bad working conditions and going on strike. As they heroically agitate for what’s rightfully theirs, Americans are forced to re-live a time when everything - even plastic and glass and cardboard - went thoughtlessly into the garbage. Of course, the people normally in favor of strikes are torn about this.
This reminds of of when I was at a blogging party (not a blogger party, this was a party where you blog) in a relatively new office in Brooklyn. There were free beers there, and one kid (a blogger who was visiting for the day) who had finished his beer asked where the recycling container was. One of the people who worked at the office said there was none. He was shocked. He asked if they were sure. They were. But he couldn’t accept this, so rather than throw his bottle out in the garbage, he set it on the floor next to the garbage! He either was so conditioned against throwing out glass that he couldn’t physically put it in a garbage can, or he thought that by putting it next to the trash, he was removing his culpability for the eventual trashing of the bottle. Or maybe he reasoned that if he put it in the trash, it definitely would never be recycled, but if he didn’t put it in the trash, there was at least a slim chance.
What would people conditioned like this do if recyclers were to go on strike?
3 years ago