June 1, 2013

Environmental Rant

There are a lot of things in this world that confuse me.
Like how we dispose of an animals waste.
You know, you go to a dog park, or even just in the apartment complex I work at, and they have those posts all around with a box of bags and a little trash can attached. And it's just become a societal norm that you take a bag and pick up your animals litter. Of course. Duh. Because someone could step in it. Or it could make someone, or another animal, sick. Okay, I get that.
Here's what I don't get.
Why are we putting something that is decomposable... into plastic, which is seriously not decomposable. We're taking something natural and shoving into a manufactured piece of fake-ness to be placed in a land fill where it's decomposition will be hindered, stunted, even stopped. That solid waste is supposed to go back into the earth! It's meant for that! Heavens it could have been placed in a big ole pile on some farm that would have decomposed oh-so-naturally into some of the best fertilizer or something.
Maybe not.. maybe dog waste is like seriously bad for the environment or something. Or maybe they do sift through those little trashes and take the waste out of the bags. I'm definitely not educated on this, I'm just musing. But I feel like it's silly. To be putting such natural things into the most unnatural places where they can't get back to the earth at all.