Happening in the world today, I have come to the unlikely conclusion that the world has or at least in thie portion of it gone mad; or is definitely starting to...

What I am about to tell you may at first seem really funny for a change, but this actually happened. I am glad "it wasn't me" !

take out their trash on a bi-weekly, daily, some hoarders do not take it out at all I have discovered. We all pay for trash disposal....All of us....

And the trash people come and take it away, filling our landfills to overcapacity because there are so many people on this earth creating trash of one kind or another...We throw away so many different things, from paper, plastic, furniture, washing machines and glibly leave them by the side of the road for the gangly "dumpster trucks" to come once or twice a week to haul our trash away....the junk man rolls down the street with his trailer and picks up the furniture, washing machines, air conditioners or whatever else we are trying to dispose of.....

Some of us have in the recent years learned to recycle their trash...hoorah for this endevour....And I am not being saracastic here....I am one of those recyclers, who believe that even trash must be put in it's proper place.....I have been separating my trash for years-only now I live in the country and just burn all the paper and set the cans, bottles, and plactic out for the recycling truck....

But some of us have gone even beyond that....they have become so adept at NOT creating garbage it is unreal....here is one man's story and when I read this, I decided the world had gone mad....

A bicycle shop owner decided to make full use of everything and not create any trash at all to be picked up and hauled off...He was very ingenious in my mind as he stores old cartons for reuse, and sells all of his unusable parts, pedals, handles, etc....for scrap.....But this did evidently did not satisfy the trash people when there was not trash bit one to pick up or put in the containers offered for use in getting rid of trash by the city he lived in .....

He was actually FINED $100.00 FOR NOT CREATING TRASH TO HAUL AWAY!!! Now this is just totally inconceivable to me as it would seem that any cititzen who was just not creating trash would be given an award by a city for being the cleanest shop owner in town....Or the greenest, however you want to put it....

Worse than this, if he doesn't pay the fine in ten days, the fine will be raised to $300.00.....Additionally if the fine is not paid again, he will be hauled to court.....

When I first read the headline on this article, I did laugh because I find it incredulous...but reading the entire thing...I simply decided that society is stretching pretty far to make a buck if they want to fine people for not creating trash...Personally, I think he should be given a medal.....No trash??

Should be no problem.....Seems impossible, but some people are able to come up with really good ideas to stop filling the landfills.....gee, how much trash did you throw away this week?? Well, you know you won't be fined at any rate.....

In addition to this, they will be fining people for putting your wheelie bin out on the wrong day and giving vouchers to those people who put their bin in the correct place on the correct day....

Are you able to understand why I think there is insanity afoot???