I like to reuse plastic water bottles. In fact, I think the one I’ve been carrying around in my purse qualifies for some kind of longevity award. When a succession of bottles I’d been leaving on my desk at work went missing, I figured out that the janitorial staff was a little too efficient. Apparently they are trained to throw away anything that looks like trash. So if my water bottle happened to be empty, they removed it. I can only hope they recycle it. Now I have to remember never to completely empty a water bottle and leave it on my desk overnight. Or I need to start using a drinking container that does not look like trash when it is empty. (And thus concludes another posting designed to remind you that REDUCE and REUSE come before recycle).