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Every other Sunday, I spend an inordinate amount of time outside with a box cutter, slashing up cardboard boxes as if I were plotting to hijack an airplane.\u00a0 This is an activity that I have grown quite exhausted with, and every other Sunday, I curse my waste management company for being greedy pricks who have handcuffed my general area with a monopoly of the waste disposal everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, they\u2019ve literally purchased all of their competitors, and regardless of the fact that there are waste bins with three different companies, it turns out that they\u2019re all owned by the monopoly and it\u2019s just more cost efficient to let all the other-brand bins remain as-is.\u00a0 I know, because I\u2019ve reached out to these other companies to seek an alternative waste provider, only to be told this.<\/span><\/p>\n The monopoly has grown complacent and lazy with their service, and used coronavirus as an excuse to curb their recycling pickup to every other week, citing safety for their workers or some other bullshit, but really it\u2019s probably to reduce overhead and maximize profits, especially considering the <\/span>reduction<\/em> in service seemed to coincide with an <\/span>increase<\/em> of cost.<\/span><\/p>\n As it is, every two weeks, my household has the capability to generate an absurd amount of cardboard that needs to be recycled, because we do pretty much all of our shopping online, and we\u2019re purchasing a ton of shit because we\u2019ve got a second kid on the way.\u00a0 Needless to say, without any sort of actual physical effort involved, the amount of cardboard we typically amass is usually impossible to be securely placed inside of the pedestrian 96-gallon waste bin provided by our waste management company.<\/span><\/p>\n So every two weeks, when I\u2019m in the driveway cutting boxes down to more compactable chunks, all I can think is that the world is destined to drown in cardboard, because of all the online shopping that is done these days.\u00a0 And as convenient as Amazon is, they\u2019re the ones probably leading the forefront of this inevitable destiny, and I can\u2019t imagine that no matter the claims of recycled materials or environmentally-friendly initiatives, I\u2019m dubious that the recycling of all this cardboard can keep up with the demand for shipping boxes, and that the world is really headed for a future where we\u2019ll drown in all this brown corrugated shit.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the endless escalation of Amazon Prime, and online shopping, I would wager that I am the only household that generates ridiculous amounts of cardboard on a regular basis, and it\u2019s simply a game of basic math; all the households that generate tons of cardboard every single week, versus the time and resources it takes to break down, sort and actually recycle all this shit, and we\u2019re all on borrowed time.<\/span><\/p>\n Unless someone invents a way to turn all this cardboard into masses of land to plop into the water like the landfills in Sim City<\/em>, I do think that if coronavirus doesn\u2019t kill us, overpopulation doesn\u2019t kill us, climate change doesn\u2019t kill us, then drowning in cardboard probably stands a chance to land on the endless list of things that will one day overrun the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every other Sunday, I spend an inordinate amount of time outside with a box cutter, slashing up cardboard boxes as if I were plotting to hijack an airplane.\u00a0 This is an activity that I have grown quite exhausted with, and every other Sunday, I curse my waste management company for being greedy pricks who have … Continue reading The world will one day drown in cardboard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,79,194,191],"class_list":["post-47954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-cashmoney","tag-coronavirus","tag-greed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47956,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47954\/revisions\/47956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}