It was a nice walk today. 🚢🏻

It was a nice walk today. 🚢🏻

Hiked over to the Van Dyke Preserve near Van Dyke and Meads Lane. Pretty much your standard Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy gully and stream preserve but still a nice little walk. A bit icy too. From there I hiked out Meads Lane which it has been years since I was last out that way to Five Rivers which I did a short hike then I headed home. Nice views of the rather working IE rundown Meades Farm of the Heldebergs and a farm land scape. I think it was a roughly 7 mile round trip.

Motherland

And now some lyrics that Natalie Merchant and later Joan Baez made famous…
Where in hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete
That keeps crawling its way
About 1,000 miles a day?

Take one last look behind
Commit this to memory and mind
Don’t miss this wasteland, this terrible place
When you leave
Keep your heart off your sleeve

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers – The Verge

The fate of cardboard boxes in the US rests in the hands of consumers more than it ever has been before. In the past, brick-and-mortar retailers handled much of the leftover packaging from shipments. Malls and grocery stores usually send big bales of used but relatively clean cardboard to recycling programs so that they can be made into new boxes. Now, the rise of e-commerce, which started before the pandemic, has shifted more responsibility onto shoppers to properly dispose of boxes so that they can be recycled. Boxes are piling up on residential curbsides instead of at retail stores.