Mom: The town changed the rules. This card came today.
| GREEN TOWN · Recycling Card |
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| Monday: paper and cans |
| Thursday: glass and bottles |
| Out by 19:00, in the right-hand box |
| Old old cells: office only, not the street |
Wei: So I cannot put glass out on Monday any more?
Mom: No. And the old cells in the drawer must go to the office; do not put them outside at all.
Wei: All right. I will take them there on Saturday when I go to the library.
Friday, October 18 · Leaves school 8:00, back 15:30
You will see how the farm keeps water clean: everything that leaves the animal houses goes through three ponds before it reaches the river. The farmer, who studied in Korea, will explain why the third pond has fish in it and how it keeps pollution out of the river.
Bring your own lunch and a bag for your own trash. Nothing is thrown away on the farm; what you bring in, you take out. Students who forget a bag will be given one and must pay ten dollars.
Dear Officer Huang,
I am a student at Sun Hill School. Our class has watched the river below the bridge for six months, and I am writing to tell you what we found.
On 31 mornings the water was clear. On nine it was white, and each of those nine was a Tuesday. We do not know what happens on Monday nights, and we are not saying anybody has broken the law. We are saying that nine out of nine is not chance.
We have a paper with the dates and eleven photos. May we bring it to your office after school one day this month? Somebody in the class can come at any time that suits you.
Lin Wei
About a third of the food grown in the world is never eaten. That happens everywhere, and it is not only a waste of food; it is a waste of everything that went into it.
A tomato that reaches a box and is thrown away has already used water, land, work and the oil that moved it. When we throw it out, we throw all of that away a second time. The tomato is the small part of the loss.
This is why keeping food is worth more than it looks. A family that plans one week of meals may save only a little money, but the water and land behind that food are saved too. The quietest kind of care for the environment happens inside a refrigerator.