Winemaker and I went grocery shopping this afternoon and while there I saw something that really turned my head.  I had to employ my cell phone camera and sent the picture to my own email address.  Once home I downloaded it and studied the reading on the outside of the package.

I believe in recycling  AND I believe in paying my fair share for things I use and others use at the same time (utilities come to mind).  Lately, the fine city I live in had to raise the rates we all pay for our sewer system.  It is going to go up A LOT!  And when you are on a fixed income like I am, any increase cuts into my spendable cash (beer money).  So this increase is costing me about a half a 12 pack each month!  That is 6 12 packs each year!  Watch it fellas!  Much more and I’m going to come to city council meeting and raise some cane!

So, this thing I took a picture of got me thinking quite a bit as I drove home.  What if there was a way to recycle some of the stuff that gets flushed down to the sewer treatment plant?  They are already sort of recycling the water that gets used and cleaned up.  In fact it is rated as THE BEST AND CLEANEST waste water out of ANY sewer treatment plant along the Wasatch Front!  No, I won’t be drinking any of it!  But I sure will shoot ducks out of it and eat them!

I guess it just isn’t right to be keeping you in suspense about what I took a picture of and so here it is:

We are talking about this being the 7th generation here folks!  In short it means it has been used 6 times before and still they are able to clean, dry and roll it back up!  They sure have something going here that we all need to be aware of!  I have not even heard of anyone using those big leaves from the burdock plant and doing that!

So, could my little city sewer plant implement something like recycling all the toilet paper that comes their way?  If they could and if they could package it like these guys, it would add income to the city coffers and I wouldn’t have to spend my beer money on paying for the overhead!  Think about it!

Bears Butt

Oct. 11, 2013