Friday, March 23rd, 2007
In a valiant effort, Diet Pepsi attempted a coup this week - while the leader of the Mountain Dew coalition was on vacation. Upon learning of the rebel’s attempt to gain the throne, the Mountain Dew leader exclaimed, “I am still King of the Mountain!”, referring to the childhood game of the same name. He is stalwart in his conviction of Divine Right and supreme ruler of all.
In the “Other” category, we have:
Coke Zero - 2
Fresca - 3
Total count: 63
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
It’s been slow going around here. I had to let the cans stockpile for two weeks before I had enough to recycle. We’ve lost one of our big suppliers when people relocated to various offices around the metropolis. But we did have a windfall of cans from Neal, also known - in some circles - as the Limerick King, who contributed 12 this week. Here’s what I recycled:
In other news, one of the gadget sites I subscribe to had two pro-recycling bits last week. I was all kinds of excited to read about Cash incentives for recycling, and then there were these wicked awesome EcoForms pots (made for plants from plants). You can also learn more about them at the EcoForms Web site.
In the Other column:
Canada Dry Ginger Ale - 3
Cherry Coke Zero - 2
Total count: 91
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
So, Gore didn’t announce, but he didn’t not announce. There’s still hope, right?
In the “Other” column:
Full Throttle - 1
Kirkland Lemon Lime Soda - 1
Sugar Free NOS - 1
Total count: 67
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
This is only tangentially related… But wouldn’t it be the coolest if Gore announced his presidential candidacy at the oscars? There isn’t a lot of substance to the idea, but people are buzzing about it. It even got a mention on CNN.
In the Other category, we have:
Diet Go 2 Cola - 1
Total count: 56
Friday, February 16th, 2007
I love tracking the stats for my Web site.
When I ran for office, the high point was seeing that someone from the U.S. Senate browsed through my site. What would the equivalent be for a site that tracks recycling pop cans? Maybe seeing that someone from Pepsi has been browsing the site? Well, someone from Pepsi has been! Since Pepsi is the only type of soda I usually drink (albeit, not very often), I found that to be very exciting. Very sorry about the poor showing for Pepsi, though.
Total count: 70
Friday, February 9th, 2007
Back in the 80s and early 90s, channels 5 and 15 were really like channel 45 (the WB, right?). Channel 5 was the home of Wallace and Ladmo, and Channel 15 had the cool cartoons on after school. One of those channels, I think it was Channel 15, ran a recycling commercial during cartoons. It ran something like this: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run your TV for three hours.
I’ve always remembered that commercial and often wondered if it was true. So, I looked it up. Check out the “Did You Know” section on thinkcans.com.
In the Other category:
Light Hawaiian Punch - 1
Caffeine Free Diet Coke - 1
Full Throttle - 2
Total count: 88
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
We have some friendly competition between developers here, resulting in a bit of scandal. It’s all been hush-hush up til now, but it’s time to break the story. You ready? Here goes:
One of the Mountain Dew developers has supplemented the numbers with cans from home.
That’s it from the reporting front. In the “Other” category, we have:
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke - 1
Kirkland’s - 2
Total count: 63
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Starbucks gives a slight incentive for bringing in reusable mugs for your daily cuppa. I found out all about this today (even though I’ve taken my Shakespeare mug in for at least a month now), when I bought a lovely new mug and got 10 cents off my Gingerbread Latte (that was 10 cents, not .10 cents for any of you who’ve followed the controversy over the passed proposition to add an .80 cent sales tax to cigarettes for early childhood education).
Apparently, this discount is well-known in some circles. Less than an hour after making this exciting discovery, I perused my Treehugger feeds and found this “Bring Your Own” blog that tells you all about the stores that offer discounts for bringing your own. It’s not much, but that 10 cents adds up to a whopping $10.40/year in savings for an average person who buys coffee twice a week. That’s good for three extra Gingerbread Lattes every year. Plus, you have the satisfaction of knowing you’ve made a difference.
This is lifted from the Bring Your Own site:
Peets, Starbucks, Wild Oats, Whole Foods, and many others will throw you a dime for doing the right thing.
In case you were wondering about the new mug, here you go:
Friday, January 26th, 2007
With more and more suppliers, I have to move to weekly updates instead of bi-weekly. The cans were accumulating too fast and were a bit of an eyesore. All solved now.
In the “Other” category, we have:
Arizona Iced Tea - 1
Full Throttle - 1
Total count: 66
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
This is completely unrelated to recycling in any way. I just got an email from the guys at Spinning Blue about their next documentary about fantasy football. Even I can’t wait to see it! I hope it’s as successful as Blair Witch, although, knowing Josh and Hunter, they’d be happier to have the success of “An Inconvenient Truth” or “Fahreinheit 9/11″. It’s no surprise that they ended up in D.C. or that they have photos of a mayoral candidate. Alas, no Pacion for the People action - maybe next time.
Their story…
Having had enough with their lame Corporate America jobs, they quit. Then they made the trek from Arizona to Colorado and started making their first documentary, starring a Segway, Josh, and America - at 10MPH.
Wish I had the guts to do that!
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