It's not easy being green

I have never had so many trashcans,
for paper for wood and for stuff,
for bio and glass and old bottle caps,
for oil and for clothes drying fluff,

The law here says I have to recycle,
but I hear that it truly costs more,
to sort and process and stow all the rubbish,
than to put it all in one heap like before!

They tell me that it burns much more energy,
to recycle and clean up our space
so why am I still sorting garbage,
when it just leads to more and more waste?

There truly is no easy answer,
and sorting may be better of course,
but I truly believe that I'm not the solution,
we should cut it all off at the source.

I am tired of plastic shrink wrapping,
I truly think it should be banned,
when we could grow natural fibers for packing,
instead of polluting the land,

My kitchen was never the issue,
it's the throwaway junk that we buy,
so now I am still sorting rubbish,
and asking a small question why.

If we tackled the cause of the problem,
we'd not have so much of a chore,
and find our kitchens full of trashcans,
and wasting more fuel than before.