Where is it? In your ditty drawer, closet, attic, garage, trash? Aha. The garbage truck swings by because you hear it’s growl, a guy in an orange vest jumps off, grabs the can, dumps it, and crashes the can back on the curb of your house. The truck drives down the street until it turns left and it’s gone. So is your garbage. Wait, I see that truck way up there on top of that hill. I see it dumping, my garbage is on top of the hill. Is that the end of the line?

I flush and everything goes someplace; down the pipe under the toilet; makes a right turn down a larger pipe; connects up with a concrete pipe under the street; into a bigger pipe, then an even bigger pipe until…yes. It ends up at the sewage treatment plant. Then where? Or in a cesspool. Then where?

At the edge of a parking lot at the train station, someone rushes to catch their train. Oops, an empty cigarette pack falls on the ground. Don’t want to miss the train, runs, cigarette pack sits there hoping that person will not forget and will pick it up on his way to the car.

Look at that lawn. Why so green? Why so trimmed? Why that big mower chugging? Why that man with fertilizer spreader walking back and forth? Why so much noise and sound from leaf blowers? Why so much smoke? Why? Where does it all go? Bag of grass, to the curb, here comes the truck, there goes the grass, up the hill, truck empties the “waste”. Pretty soon, a ski resort.

We seem security for our plastic grocery bags. We need tracking for our grass clippings. We need to have fewer things going someplace.

Are you sure EVERYTHING goes some place? What about that bronze statue in the park?

What about sea level? Water from beneath landfills, super fund sites, lawns, golf courses, cesspools, industrial sites all wants the same thing. To go down to the sea and be level with the OCEAN. The ocean accepts all water and the process continues as the ocean gives water back the water cycle is the problem. Stopping the water cycle, will stop pollution of the ocean. However, father Sun would never permit this to happen.

Ocean swallows all our toxic plumes. Like the one under the organic farm in North Amityville. Radioactive waste in the water table means that the farm can’t have a well to draw water for irrigation.

Buckminster Fuller, an ecologist, has suggested a precept that apply:

There’s no such thing as a free lunch

Everything goes some place

The ocean is the only thing that has a free lunch. And it doesn’t taste very good.