GARBAGE DISPOSAL

When I was a little girl in the 1940’s my Mother would wrap the family garbage in our daily newspaper. That’s because plastic didn’t become affordable, or mass produced, until after WWII, and that led to a boon for consumers in the 1950’s.  Now, garbage can be disposed of in big plastic bags.

GARBAGE—wet organic waste from the kitchen, and TRASH—non-organic waste going to a landfill are terms often used interchangeably.  Of course, RECYCLING is a whole different process involving material for re-use. However,  paper can’t be reused to create new trees.
However, words can be recycled as information, and information can be disseminated either in written form or verbally. 

Consequently, verbal communication is often referred to as, “Talking Garbage.” This involves speech filled with useless, insulting and often dishonest or disparaging communication used to intimidate opponents.  And then there is, “Trash Talk” talking RUBBISH—obvious nonsense that makes no sense at all— purposefully meant to confuse. 

The definition of RUBBISH is, “unwanted things.” In speech it is useless talk that lacks meaning. In Britain  (excuse the language of the Brits) “Talking Shit” means, “Talking Utter RUBBISH.” 

If a person only speaks RUBBISH, 100% of people will eventfully think of him like they think of their overfilled GARBAGE. It’s time to dump the useless. We can’t wrap him into a newspaper and put him in a bin, but we can stop and listen to what’s being said.

We can begin to listen to people whose words mean something.  It’s called THE TRUTH.

Esther Blumenfeld