Dear Members and Constituents,
It would seem garbage is everywhere. Whether you call it
waste, refuse or rubbish; we are adept at producing it. The U.S. alone produces
over 250
million tons of trash annually. You find it in music (the
band Garbage and some genres older generations wish their children would not
hear); politics (time to hunker down for a new dose of trash
talk as the presidential campaigns heat-up) and even people
(white trash, junk in the trunk…). Cyberspace is littered on a daily basis with
an estimated 183 billion
junk mail messages. Outer space is not safe, with an estimated 600 thousand pieces of
“space junk” orbiting the earth (19,000 or so of these large enough for the
U.S. Strategic Command to track). Trash can even be seen on the Moon, thanks to
newly released NASA orbital pictures
of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites.
Further out in the solar system, the donut-shaped rings
around Saturn might be thought-of as spatial debris (technically not trash
since it’s not man-made). Closer to earth, 48 delicious dough rings await you
at my desk, courtesy of Roger Greene (donut boy). Don’t you dare call it junk
food!
Happy Friday!
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