KTOWN has gone green and we are influencing our entire community here in SoKno (“south Knoxville” for those not in the Kno).
Now don’t get me wrong, we aren’t separating glass and plastic from the rest of our trash, we aren’t composting, we turn the flood lights on in the evening and sometimes forget to turn them off all day, we use lots of electricity to run the filter for the above ground pool, and we cut down as many trees as possible and burn them in our backyard in order to keep the brush from overtaking our yard…..but nevertheless WE’VE GONE GREEN.
How?…you may ask. We throw stuff away.
Last week, we finally received our new mattress set and like the ‘Greenies’ we are, we took the old mattress and box springs and after using them like a redneck trampoline on the deck, we hauled them out to the road for placement in the local landfill. This was Friday night.
It rained all night Friday. Why add this little piece of meteorological info? Because Saturday morning when I took the rest of the garbage out to the road, I noted that I was very glad the Wife and I moved the old mattress set out to the road while it was dry. The mattress was so soaked that you could see water seeping out of it even after it stopped raining.
Now if you are familiar with SoKno you may already know where this story is going…. and why KTOWN is SoGreen.
Later Saturday evening, I was outside with a friend of mine enjoying an adult beverage and talking about my old truck when I noticed the mattress and boxsprings were gone…or I believe they call it ….recycled. And no the trash truck didn’t come…it runs on Mondays.
So that just adds to the list of stuff that KTOWN has “Recycled”….
- A lamp
- A 27″ TV with crappy picture
- Shoe Rack
- Outdoor glass top table….with no glass
- Old windows
- Lawnmower
- Easy Chair that sat out in the elements for 6 months
- Another lamp
- A soaking wet mattress and boxsprings
- Oh, and our dog’s bed. (You don’t even want to know.)
I never knew being Green could be so easy.