My wife has always tried to do the right thing when it comes to recycling. It is not offered where we live, so we gather it in bags every month and then we would take a trip to the recycling center to unload it. I have grumbled about having to do this but I do appreciate that she has been trying to do the right thing. So this Saturday we arrive at the recycling center ready to do our part and feel good about helping out when the lady monitoring the drop off informs us that if any of our recycling has any food on it they will throw away the whole dumpster. She takes a pizza box and holds it above her head declaring we have soiled the whole bin. She then proceeds to look at a dog food can and in a shrill voice tell us that we can’t dump any of it. According to the less than helpful monitor, we are supposed to have cleaned every can to where we can eat off of it again before we can have it approved for recycling. What an aggravating event! Every day in the paper I see folks like Al Gore and others screaming at me to “save the planet”, and when I try, I get assaulted by Green Peace the trash monitor! Are you telling me that you can’t recycle metal cans, which you are going to melt down, if they have been touched by dog tongue? I would like to inform Al and all his cronies that I will no longer recycle anything! As a matter of fact I plan to start buying more products which cannot be recycled. I am done trying to do the right thing until they figure out yelling at me and unnecessarily burdening the process is counterproductive to their cause!