Yup. It has come to the U.S. Europe has been doing it for years. Why? Because it relieves stress. Want to try it? Check out the details at this Bed-and-Breakfast (and cows): This bed and breakfast’s ‘cow cuddling’ option may be exactly what we all need in life
You probably recycle those plastic bottles and anything else with the recycle symbol on it. I know I do. It’s a little thing we can do to help our environment. Except that there’s a problem. That is, many U.S. “recylers” haven’t been processing it (or electronic waste) here but shipping it to China, where it’s cheaper to deal with because they toss it into a landfill. China, drowning in our plastic, is wising up and saying NO MORE! They now have a Green Fence Policy, which says that they won’t be importing most of that plastic any longer.
What are our recyclers going to do? And those in Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong? They don’t know yet. And it’s a big problem–China imports 70% of the 500 million tons of electronic waste and 12 million tons of plastic waste each year that the world creates.
This will be costly (labor, technology, environmental safety standards), but it’s past time to actually recycle the waste rather than letting it pile up in landfills in China’s–or our–back yard.
[This one comes from Linda Younts, who knows how much I love word-play. Enjoy.]
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vordskontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi blriten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.