We live in a culture in which many things are disposable. Do you remember when basketball games were routinely interrupted because a player had lost a contact lens. Not any more! Now most players wear disposable contact lenses. If one is lost, just go to the bench and pop in another. Nowadays we don't have to worry about our cameras. Just take 24 pictures, remove the film, and throw the camera away. It's disposable.

Just consider all the disposable things in our culture: diapers, (hallelujah!) Paper plates and soft-drink cans, plastic syringes, and shavers. I am told that they even have disposable wedding gowns! Now, we know some of the problems that come with this disposability mania. We are trashing our oceans and landscapes. Unless we learn to recycle more, we will choke on our own dis…