Maybe It’s Secretly Ironic?
November 12, 2017
Trash can at the entrance to a Cincinnati-area Starbucks. I love that their trash-can lid meticulously does all the obligatory didactic virtue signaling—they have to get pushy and judgy with their customers to demonstrate adequate fealty to a pushy and judgy environmentalist culture—but then any idiot can literally see right through it, that the recycling and “landfill” trash literally all go to the same place. Oops.
Or maybe the most cutting-edge way to signal how hip and ironic and aware they are is to offer this ordinary trash can as a meta-commentary mocking the whole idea of commercial virtue signaling?
Enjoyment and Contemplation 
November 12, 2017 at 10:46 PM
*chuckles a little, then goes on*
When that thing is used as intended, there’s two bags.
Thought about it a little…and I know our recycling program required all paper stuff to not be “contaminated with food.”
No way that’s happening at Starbucks. literally, their only paper is contaminated with food!
November 12, 2017 at 11:09 PM
Interesting point!
November 12, 2017 at 11:18 PM
I forgot the rest of the comment– my folks’ town actually has, as required by law/regulation, offers recycling bins.
….they get dumped into the same bin as the garbage, because THEY ARE 300 MILES BY ROAD FROM EVEN A SORTING CENTER.
November 13, 2017 at 2:25 AM
As a language-Nazi, I am irked by the containers which read “Waste.” I don’t want to ‘waste’ anything, but I’d fill a container marked ‘Trash,’ or even ‘Garbage,’ as long as I didn’t have to wash it first. ;) :razz: