Green Star Setting
Get the double meaning there? About a year ago, I wrote a post called “Green Star Rising,” telling you all about my new job. That star is “setting” now, serenely and with lovely grace, as I count down my last … Continue reading
Tag Archives: recycling
Whan That Aprille
Spring is here now! I declare it! The winter that would not let go has at last slid howling and clawing into the frigid abyss, and warmer air is astir. The crocus shoots in my backyard have a chance. The … Continue reading
Summer Days in January
Well, now I’ve heard everything. Today at work we actually ran out of trash to be sorted, so they let us go at 11:00 a.m.! We ran out — in the kingdom of trash! The enormous bay where they keep the incoming … Continue reading
Rat Kin
Yesterday at work, my colleagues and I witnessed a captivating drama unfolding. During a minor mechanical breakdown, some of us wandered over to the railing along the front edge of our second-floor balcony, from which we had a view of … Continue reading
Event Threshold
We’d gone several weeks at Greenstar without a serious breakdown. We’d had the little, uncertain ones where they keep us around while they fix things. But yesterday we had the kind where they throw up their hands and say, “Send … Continue reading
Another Friday, More Adventures
The heat rose again this week, which made me happy. Still, I miss real “dog days” in August. Is it just the tendency of memory to idealize and amplify, or were summers longer and hotter when we were kids? In … Continue reading
More Friday Adventures
More often than not, Fridays are good and interesting days at Greenstar. This past one, there were lots of problems with the machines — in an eight-hour shift, I think the belts were running no more than twenty or twenty-five … Continue reading
Fire at Greenstar
We had a fire at Greenstar today! No one was injured. It happened while we were eating lunch, so pretty much everyone was already out of the building, sitting in the concrete “yard” between the plant and the office trailer, … Continue reading
Hardhats
The machines were running smoothly today. (For any readers who don’t know where I work, please refer to the blog entry before last, the one entitled “Green Star Rising.”) Wet conditions have a tendency to jam the belts. When the … Continue reading
Green Star Rising
So, I just finished my third day of work at Greenstar Recycling. The staffing boss took some convincing that I really wanted to try it. He warned me that the job would be “unpleasant”; he warned me that I would … Continue reading