Last night I attended a concert at the Comcast Center in Mansfield MA.  The Steve Miller Band was playing and the crowd was a good mix of people from teenagers to 60-70 year old.  In my opinion the diversity of the crowd was perfect in order to see how many people used the recycling bins next to every garbage can.

My observations were somewhat casual since I did not have a team of people monitoring every garbage can and recycling bin with scales and other scientific tools.  I could only use my eyes to determine how full the recycling bins were in comparison to the garbage cans.  My entire “survey” consisted of 4 trips to buy bottled water and two other random walks, in total maybe 6 trips past 10 or so garbage stations.

The end result was that not one recycling bin contained more recycled cups and bottles than the one in the picture.  The garbage cans were about 1/3-1/2 of the way full—-WHY?   The trash cans were side by side with the recycling bins, I can’t think of an easier way to provide people with a way to recycle other than manning the garbage stations with recycling Nazi’s.  The concert had ads on their giant TV’s requesting that people use the recycling bins so I feel that they did everything in their power to promote recycling.

Instead of an informative blog post, I will close this with a list of questions:

What more can a concert venue do to promote recycling?

Why do people choose to place their recycling trash in garbage cans?

Why do people recycle at home but not in public?

When I purchased bio-diesel soap last week I completely forgot about a little jar of organic bug repellent that we bought as well.  Since I live on a lake the bugs love to come out in the evening to feast on anyone who is not inside playing on the internet.  Needless to say, I am generally on the internet in the evening so I have not seen any mosquitoes for years.  Another factor is that I hate to use bug spray!   I don’t like the idea of putting chemicals on my body and the logic seem a little odd in my opinion.

Tonight I decided to blog from our new tree house in order to get away from the TV show that my wife is watching.  Armed with my laptop and a tall glass of water I relaxed for about 10 minutes until the sun went down.  Within seconds I was in a cloud of mosquitoes until I applied some organic bug repellent.  Well, I am still in the same cloud but now they are not biting me?

The organic bug repellent that I am trying is made with:

Shea Butter

Soy OIL

Bees Wax

Vitamin E

Citronella

Rosemary

Cedar

Nettle

My review:  Since I hate to use lotion I would give the product a thumbs down since it makes my since oily.  The product also fails in keeping the bugs away, I still have a cloud of them all around me.  Actually, some of them are landing on me and I am killing them since I do not want to risk bites.

OK, Now I’ll finish this from inside my house away from the bugs.  Now I have oily skin, an oily keyboard and mouse, and my wife is still watch the same TV show, the product failed!