It seems everyone and their mom is jumping on the “green scene” trying to be “social responsible”, “organic”, and “environmental”. It just amazes me how much we have changed in the past couple of years, but then again we had help. (Thanks Al!)

Anyway, I was reading an interest article on small biz trends dot com about how their is a HUGE trend towards going Green!

Reading and seeing how companies like Eco Lips who sells organic lip balm has also pushed consumers to go “green” with other organic products. This article also gives facts such as 2.5 million plastic bottles are put into landfills every HOUR!

Anyway, I just see this trend with Big Business buying Green and wanted to stress that this is JUST THE START!

One thing that I have been MEANING To get off my chest is since my move out west I have seen HOW NOT GREEN ARIZONA IS!

Yes, you read that right, a place with at least 211 FULLY SUNNY DAYS a year, you would THINK this is PRIME REAL ESTATE FOR SOLAR! But if you live here, like I do, you will see that something as BASIC AS RECYCLING is MISSING!

My apartment complex DOES NOT have RECYCLING! I DID NOT believe this at first, but after much asking, they TOLD ME to THROW OUT ANY CANS, BOTTLE, ETC. UGH! Well, me being a bit Green inside, I collect all my recycling and drop it off at a friends house WHO DOES have recycling.

Think about this, we have a LARGE trend towards going GREEN, but something as simple as Recycling is NOT DONE due to (what I am told) COST! The city would RATHER DUMP BOTTLES then RECYCLE THEM! WTF!

On top of this, those towns WHO DO recycle put it ALL TOGETHER, so this means our TAX DOLLARS is PAYING SOMEONE TO SEPARATE IT! Growing up in New Jersey the “armpit of America” (from what I am told) will FINE YOU IF YOU DONT RECYCLE! I would ALWAYS see recycling in the cafeteria at schools, FORCED TO recycle batteries, boxes, glass, plastic, cans, etc. They have even mandatory a new ruling in the town I grew up, which requires you to “take the tops off bottles”. They WILL NOT take them if you DO NOT remove that CAP.

Okay, Sorry about that rant, but for a country that is divided we need to UNITE and NOT BY GOING TO WAR, but by looking within and HELP OURSELVES FIX REAL PROBLEMS then START NEW ONES.