Somebody Stop the Plastic

First, apologies since this is not a new thought. (At least I hope it’s not!)

My daughter participated in a school-sponsored event this week: jump rope for heart health, or something like that. She collected donations for jumping rope continuously for ten minutes. Exercise to raise money. Great

But then the American Heart Association had to send her home with goodie-bag-like prizes: completely worthless plastic crap good for nothing but the trashcan. One smelly yellow plastic water bottle that surely leaches PBTs or TRBs or some unpronounceable chemical acronym. And one cheap plastic jump rope that’s so lightweight it doesn’t hit the ground when it’s time to jump over.

Really. Seriously. We don’t need these things. My daughter is proud to contribute to the effort and is no longer a self-centered preschooler (thank god!) who just wants something for herself.

At what point do people actually start to react in a reasonable way to rejecting plastic crap? I think I’ll go write a letter to the American Heart Association.

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April 18, 2008 | Filed Under Serious 

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