Practical tips and advice for a family friendly lifestyle
NoNon-centsNanna.com comes from the blogs and writings of Malika Bourne, the No Non-cents Nanna. Nanna provides practical tips and advice for family friendly lifestyle changes based on her own life experience as a mother, a grandmother, and over 30 years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN).
Hits: 8I have prided myself on being eco-friendly. I reused*, repurposed*, and thought that I was recycling to keep America beautiful while saving our planet. I was wrong to believe a fantasy. For one thing, I was overloading the globe with plastics jugs I thought that could be recycled. I fell for an effective feel-good marketing campaign all these years – I am concerned about the growing toxic world I will leave to my great-grandchildren. After a tiny bit of research, I learned that my ‘recycled’ laundry detergent jugs and more were piling up on foreign continents. The disposable plastic cups and straws we are served if we go through the Drive-thru Fast Food may be floating in the oceans. […]
I reused*, repurposed*, and thought that I was recycling to keep America beautiful while saving our planet.
I was wrong to believe a fantasy.
For one thing, I was overloading the globe with plastics jugs I thought that could be recycled. I fell for an effective feel-good marketing campaign all these years – I am concerned about the growing toxic world I will leave to my great-grandchildren.
After a tiny bit of research, I learned that my ‘recycled’ laundry detergent jugs and more were piling up on foreign continents. The disposable plastic cups and straws we are served if we go through the Drive-thru Fast Food may be floating in the oceans. (I am not taking all the blame on my own.)
In this post I will share links to videos and credible articles about the Keep America Beautiful, Don’t Litter, Recycling Lie.
I am also promoting an eco-friendly laundry product with my personal link to save $10 on your first purchase of EARTH BREEZE – see below.
The universal recycling symbol is internationally recognized for recycling activity.
Bill Lloyd and Gary Anderson designing the recycling symbol. Facts about the original recycle symbol: … three arrows represent ‘reducing’, ‘reusing’, and ‘recycling’. Figure 2 – The inside negative space of the symbol resembles a pine tree. The recycling symbol is a variant of the Möbius loop to symbolize continuity within a finite entity. Click HERE to read about and download the Recycle Symbols.
Click HERE to read more about recycling and symbols from Wikipedia
Aluminum cans and laundry detergent jugs are trash…
Just because a container has arecycle symbol number does not mean that item will be recycled to be reused. Those symbols seem to give us a good feeling but there is no guarantee that anyone will follow through with the entire recycling process.
I know. This does not seem right…
I mislead you about my personal recycling – I do not have access to recycle. I would, if I could. I currently live in an apartment complex without recycle bins– only 5 often overflowing dumpsters. It can be so gross. I am disgusted at seeing so many recyclable containers taking up space.
I decided to do a better job of doing my part to Save the Planet by no longer using certain products due to the way they are packaged. What will you decide to do to make even a small drop in the bucket? (Read below – I changed laundry products, and a solution to not being able to reverse-vend aluminum cans.)
And since the COVID-19 pandemic started, I have had no place to return bottles to redeem my 5-cent bottle deposit. (See Reverse Vending below.)
Oh yes, it bothers me to see all kinds of plastic destined for the land fill.
Before you read any further, I have a challenge for you: Make a list of all the kinds of things you throw away every year. (Make your list in your head, on paper or Note Pad.)
Save your list for after this post to help you decide on what changes you will make to decrease trash.
Want to save Ten Bucks and help someone in need? See the EARTH BREEZE promo below.
But, ‘One-way Containers’ Use Was a Plot All Along
Say what? Yes, the ‘one-way’ containers was a brilliant marketing strategy to sell more nutrient-void products in a feel-good way. Ultimately, increased sales have led to more garbage. (Feel Good Marketing)
Recycling may not be such a promising idea after all. As one article led to another resource, I learned that some unrelated topics were inadvertently related as they were leading to more trash overload on the planet.
Wait for it…I will explain with the help of links to credible sources that dispelled the recycling fantasy I had in my head. I can only guess that you were brain washed marketed by ad campaigns to believe the same reuse, recycle farce, too.(See CRYING INDIAN below.)
I don’t have to tell you that the Pandemic has changed our ways of living including the consequences of disposables and jobs. (Is this simple or a complicated mess?)
But, did you know that not being able to go out to eat in a restaurant has created an aluminum shortage and more trash?
What do you suppose happened when dining out in restaurants was deemed to be not safe from COVID-19?
Diners/ Eateries/ Restaurants/ Supper Clubs reuse their glass drinking glasses – after they are washed and sanitized, of course.
Eating establishments usually do not pop open a can or a plastic bottle of cola. They serve fountain drinks that cost a fraction of what the cost is if you buy a single serving. (Don’t begrudge them. This is how they can make money while waiting on, cooking for you, serving you and doing the dishes, plus pay for the rest room expenses and staff…)
Families stayed at home for family night. Since the dishwashers at the restaurants won’t be washing dishes at your house, more and more cans of soda pop were purchased for treat at home. Since we all had to wait on our self, we saved money by not eating out. – All the while the recycle bin was getting fuller and fuller…
With that said,how many food service workers have lost their jobs because of COVID closing the eating establishment they worked for? If a waitress/ waiter no longer has income to pay bills, will they be creating more non-recycled trash or not considering they cannot help the economy by purchasing goods and services from businesses?
Jun 18, 2020 · According to a survey conducted by the National Restaurant Association, the restaurant and food service industry likely lost nearly $120 billion in sales during the first three months of the pandemic.
Mar 02, 2021 · Since the start of the pandemic, 74.7 million people have lost work, with the majority of jobs lost in industries that pay below average wages.
Apr 12, 2021 … eating out or buying food from the grocery store, Americans of all ages are…eating poorly everywhere—except at school…. new dietary trends study… reveals persistent or worsening disparities in meal quality from restaurants, grocery stores, and other sources—but not school—by race, ethnicity, and income.
Jun 01, 2020 · (I am searching for a 2021 update.)
With restaurants closed for in-person dining, food delivery—and the waste associated with those take-out orders—has skyrocketed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. …
… increase in takeout. … CDC is recommending that everything in a restaurant be disposable—even the menus…posing a huge threat to the environment … world full of disposables….affect how much waste we generate?
Now the US is having a single service condiment shortage of ketchup. I wonder just how many single use packets of ketchup can fill a square mile of garbage landfill.
I found some stats on China’s disposable eating utensil trash. (See below.) Just because China is on the other side of the globe from where I live, does not mean that their disposable waste will not affects the US.
… food delivery companies…. could decide to pay for biodegradable plastic forks and boxes rather than trying to shift customers to a potentially less convenient system of reusables. … online shopping companies... major source of plastic waste.
China struggles with recycling. The e-commerce sector… generates around 850,000 metric tons of plastic waste a year, and 95% is not recycled.
… study in 2017, online food delivery generated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste, including 44,000 tons of plastic spoons, 175,000 tons of plastic chopsticks, and 1.2 million tons of plastic takeout boxes.
To manufacture new biodegradable disposables with have startup investments in order to create some thin as simple as eating utensils that will break down in a compost heap.
“When we think of plastic alternatives, we should think about cost. In the end we want it so a customer can buy it . . . the cost needs to be competitive with plastic…”
Just give your old ones to the driver when your next order arrives.
Nationwide, food and packaging containers together account for almost 45% of landfill materials in the U.S. … online food delivery market growing— $200 billion by 2025—it’s easy to see how single use waste from food delivery adds up, … pandemic… forcing more people to order in.
The balance of trash shifted on the economic scales…
… COVID-19 social distancing guidelines complicate more than dining -out. The cost of in-patient care … significantly increased.
With the viral epidemic lead hospitals to have an unprecedented number of isolation patients at one time. The amount of disposable medical supplies is unimaginable. It all has to be properly disposed of. (That is another long-complicated story- don’t get this long-winded Nanna started.)
…COVID-19 has brought anxiety, worry, and social distancing… also brought piles and piles of trash and waste. … plastic grocery bags … disposable masks and gloves…
… coronavirus pandemic…. grocery stores switched back to single-use plastic bags and prohibited customers from bringing their own reusable bags.
Apr 23, 2020 · Dive Brief: A single symptomatic COVID-19 infection would cost a median of $3,045 in direct medicalcosts incurred only during the course of the infection
… only … the costs during the acute infection … not follow-up care … direct medical costs to treat a symptomatic COVID-19 … substantially higher than other common infectious diseases…
A chunk of the expense of an isolation patient is all about the appropriate amount and the cost of the isolation supplies (PPE) needed to prevent further spread and cross contamination. It is simply not factual when some people claim that SAR2 is “just like the normal flu”. That disinformation has to stop. If only those who still believe this pandemic (2020-2021) “is a hoax” would look at the price tag billed to insurance companies.
My mind flashed on the controversy of Governor Cuomo’s alleged mishandling of New York’s nursing homes in the early days of the pandemic. I have to wonder exactly how much the cost of PPE for isolation along with proper use of protective equipment’s played a role in the number of preventable deaths.
I will go out on a limb (based on my decades of experience as an RN) that there were all too many broken links in the infection control chain.
Skilled nursing facilities and assisted living centers treating COVID-19 patients… 1,064% increase in costs for required personal protective equipment since the deadly virus started its rampage in the U.S.
… price increase to supply-and-demand factors… increased number of items mandated for safety… frequent changes.
…As more product comes into the market, prices should start to recede… but the increase of government and situational requirements, combined with temporarily halted manufacturing in China, created a lethal lag.
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(Personally, my son and I are allergic to latex. Do you have any idea how many medical supplies and equipment have latex in them?)
Nitrile gloves are the most widely used disposable glove. commonly found in medical facilities and food handling applications … barrier between you and what you are handling. Nitrile disposable gloves are powder-free and contain zero traces of latex…
Latex– These gloves provide excellent dexterity and some puncture resistance. They are standbys in the medical industry and food handling occupations.
Vinyl– An economical alternative to latex and nitrile, these gloves are a go-to in food processing and food handling activities.
Polyethylene– These FDA-approved gloves for food contact are powder-free and very economical. They are commonly found in school cafeterias, dining halls, and other food service applications.
Nitrile – These gloves are an alternative to latex options and are ideal for those with allergies to the material. Unlike latex however, they do not provide as much puncture resistance or dexterity.
(PPE), the healthcare supply chain remains fragile and constrained.
Massive increases in global PPE demand created an imbalance in the supply chain and have driven up raw materials prices… providers who have incurred additional costs to acquire PPE, adding to existing margin pressures.
… American Hospital Association (AHA) estimates the additional costs associated with purchasing needed PPE for hospitals and health systems was $2.4 billion … from March through June 2020, or roughly $600 million per month.
A Hefty Price Tag for Providers
PPE sourcing challenges brought on by COVID-19 have created historic financial pressures for U.S. hospitals and health systems already facing thin margins.
I don’t know how many people on social media complained about Big Pharma and Greedy Doctors during the pandemic. I don’t have to be a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist to grasp that no one had budgeted for a pandemic and all of the extra costs that would be incurred as we care for isolation patients. This stuff is not free- it does not automatically appear on the supply shelves of a hospital. All the staff needed in any care facility needs to be paid to work on top of this financial stress.
The largest reported price increases have been for isolation gowns (2,000%), N95 masks (1,513%), 3-ply masks (1,500%) and reusable face shields (900%). … 3M N95 masks, which rose from $0.11 to $6.75 each (6,136% increase),.. currently unavailable, according to SHOPP.
Soap (184%) and nitrile gloves (200%) were the only products of the 11 listed to cost double or less.
All of these infection control items are not reusable. They are disposable – leaving the Earth’s future garage heap. I don’t know what can or cannot be burned – but the soot in the air will contribute to more air-pollution is my guess.
In 20-years we will see the results of the potential studies on how the Pandemic of 2020 created a Trashy Crisis. Will history books point out that the spread of COVID-19 that mutated so often could have been better prevented ‘if only’ more people had made better choices in the mitigation process. (Opinion of Malika Bourne)
(On a personal note: My disabled son lives with me for my convenience as I am his 24/7 primary skilled caregiver. The availability of disposable supplies has been challenging ever since the pandemic began. Medical waste in double plastic bags account for the bulk of my trips to the dumpster. In home care from a family member greatly reduces the number of times I need to wear and change gloves. I don’t need to mask while doing nursing cares for my son as long as I have taken strict precautions that include NO VISITORS and rarely leaving our home. When I do, I wear a clean mask.)
Medical waste (trash)… from healthcare facilities treating COVID-2019 patients is no different than waste coming from facilities without COVID-19 patients. CDC’s guidance… on laundry, food service utensils, and medical waste…
Yes, you should wear a mask in public. No, you should not throw it in the gutter.
…wreaking havoc on sewage and stormwater systems in the United States…. getting rid of their face masks, wipes, and gloves by flushing them down the toilet, and it’s causing a surge in clogged pipes and sewage overflows, according to a report by the Associated Press.
…Face masks, gloves, and wipes can end up in our waterways and lakes … [do NOT] throw them in the street … curbside storm drains connect directly to a nearby body of water.
Uh-oh: All those disposable masks and wipes are clogging the sewers…
As if we have enough to worry about the carelessly littered disposable masks given out at grocery stores (for mask resistant shoppers to wear) clogging up the sewer systems and wastewater drains…
…now our favorite sports drinks, energy drinks cola, soda pop, junk food beverages in aluminum cans are in short supply. And it is not just caffeinated, sugar loaded soft drink can shortage – canned soups, canned veggies, canned tuna…canned ham…
Don’t take my word for it. Check out these articles/ videos below:
Is there a shortage of aluminum cans in the US?
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve had many shortages…
“… coronavirus pandemic … shift consumer drinking habits from bars/ restaurants to private homes… shortage of aluminum cans. …
(I prefer my Coca-Cola on ice from a fountain.)
U.S. beverage manufacturers face aluminum can shortage …
U.S. beverage manufacturers face aluminum can shortage amid pandemic
Video Transcript: U.S. beverage manufacturers face aluminum can shortage amid pandemic (yahoo.com)
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve had many shortages. Paper products, coins, even yeast. You can add aluminum to that list. … causing a can crunch here in Chicago and beyond.”…. Click the link to read more…
U.S. beverage manufacturers face aluminum can shortage …
https://news.yahoo.com/u-beverage-manufacturers…
Feb 21, 2021 · U.S. beverage manufacturers face aluminum can shortage amid pandemic. February 20, 2021, 4:02 PM. As the coronavirus pandemic continues …
Ball makes more than 350 million cans a day at its facilities around the world.
…breweries and other beverages companies are currently experiencing unfair market prices for aluminum prices,” Rep. Buck said in a statement.
Author: CBS News Videos
Uh-oh! This is a vicious cycle
Just one company already makes 350,000,000 cans a day… M-m-m? And just where do you think those empty cans will go after the party is over? Your guess is as good as my guess.
I live in Iowa, one of the 10 states with Bottle Bills that charges a 5cent deposit on beverage containers. (Read all about it below...)
If you bought a 6-pack of beer, today in Iowa, you would pay an extra 60 cents at the register. Pre-pandemic, the groceries stores had recycle-machines to load your empty bottles or cans into. Once you are done putting your supposed to have washed sticky containers in the machine a redemption ticket is spit out for x amount of money to have returned to you. (Further down you can click the link to read about the beer industry initiating the throw-away beer bottle.)
Not everyone gets a return on their bottle/ can redemption. In fact, it was estimated that only 40% of containers with deposits are returned. I suppose that 40% is better than nothing. When tossing a beer can on the side of the road just before getting pulled over, that is like throwing away a nickel – and then some.
Bottle Bills The Container Recycling Institute is one of the country’s foremost advocates of beverage container deposit legislation (commonly known as bottle bills). Beverage containers make up a large portion of litter in the United States… deposit laws are known for … high recycling rate for beverage containers and reducing litter …(Hint: It’s a trick to consume more beer or soft drinks.)
Mar 13, 2020 · Beverage container deposit laws, or bottle bills, are designed to reduce litter and capture …
… reasons container deposit schemes succeed in increasing recycling rates and reducing plastic waste.
Financial incentive: … financial incentive for consumers to return drink containers, which might… be littered or thrown in landfill. Giving a financial value to these empties communicates that they have a value for society. Containers are viewed and treated as a resource, rather than simply as trash…. deposits reduce beverage litter by 40% or more. To continue reading form the source click HERE How do container deposit schemes work? (tomra.com)
…closed-loop recycling … such as plastic, aluminum and glass, are continually recycled back into bottles and cans, rather than being landfilled, littered or ‘downcycled’ into lower quality materials.
…reverse vending machines, which see drink containers returned through an incentivized deposit return scheme. Around 40 markets around the globe have already adopted deposit return schemes and experience return rates of up to 98% Click HERE to read more A guide to closed-loop recycling (tomra.com)
‘Downcycling’ … recycling a material to create a new product at a lower quality and functionality than its original state… can’t be recycled again…. not a particularly sustainable method … recycled product reaches the end of its life … lower quality status.
During the Pandemic the grocery stores were no longer taking bottle and can returns- it is a germ thing. Besides not everyone rinsed out their bottles before returning- yuck!
… half of U.S. states with container redemption programs have temporarily suspended … due to multiple factors around the new coronavirus.
…this is a new coronavirus, researchers are still gathering data … how it is transmitted and if — or how long — it lives on objects in a transmittable form. … lack of information has caused some concern about whether consumers might transfer the virus to redemption center employees via their returned containers….
At least 8 states suspend bottle bill requirements during coronavirus pandemic | Waste Dive
How 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic disrupted US waste and recycling service | Waste Dive… …early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic … waste and recycling industry’s essential public health role meant it had to operate throughout, even as thousands of workers were affected by the virus. Worker safety resources are available from OSHA, SWANA, NWRA and ISRI.
… Staffing limitations, volume shifts and social distancing requirements … operational changes … Numerous curbside recycling programs were suspended… environmental policies were delayed or changed.
I admit that my household has a hankering for Coca-cola. (A tasty beverage that comes in a one-time-use can or bottle.)
I can rationalize that I only buy a limited supply delivered by a masked person from Walmart.com with our nutritious groceries to avoid contracting COVID-19. I paid 5cents per bottle with no way to return the darn things to a recycle machine, any more… UGH! It goes against my grain to loss a nickel and fill the landfill. (Check out: Study: 1 in 5 grocery store workers have tested positive for COVID-19, most asymptomatic
The rule I think was that there had to be a recycle center within 5 miles… like I am going to bag up a few bottles and pay a taxi to drive to me the only recycle place in town right now for 60cents refund. I don’t think so…
There may be a small solution…
One day this last winter after a week of 20 below zero as I was taking out accumulated trash out to the dumpster, I saw an old man dumpster diving for cans. This old guy had lost his part time job so he was supplementing his income redeeming the containers that we could no longer return. He told me that he came every day to gather cans and bottles and would I kindly set mine by the trash for him. Since a number of my neighbors are big beer or soda drinkers even before COVID-19 stay-at -home and mask up orders our 5 dumpsters our apartment complex was the Mother-Load of nickels for his pocket.
That works for me, assuming that those can do get recycled…
https://youtu.be/1mxaN_xqQh4
How Did We Get From There to Here?
Why is it that we all know that everybody needs to repurpose, reuse and recycle? I mean like if you went to Pinterest you can find 1001 way to recycle an oatmeal box into a cute Santa Claus, if you want.
If we know that every piece of liter adds up, why are we buying products only to use once then throw away the container, without concern?
The answer is brilliant marketing strategies.
Every sexy person on the planet smoked brand x of cigarettes and drank Y brand of booze….oh wait. Thos products are banned from TV ads.
Congress bans airing cigarette ads, April 1, 1970 On this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, … banned cigarette ads from airing on television and radio. After World War II, cigarette companies began advertising heavily on TV.
But, that law did not stop the TV ads individually packaged junk food and my favorite soft drink.
Growing up in the ’50s and 60’s bubbly beverages with sugar was a rare treat. (I wonder if we could ahve had a root beer once a week if my dad had not been a chain smoker.) Once a month on a Sunday night my dad would drive to the local A & W for a root beer in a frosty mug. – not a can – not a bottle but in a glass mug delivered to the car by a car hop on roller skates. All good American families were going to the root beer stand.
Soda with a fizz that burned just the right spot in your throat, to me had to be devoured in an in cold mug- There was no other way in my mind to drink “soda pop”. I could not fathom, drinking anything straight out of a bottle. It did not think it would be polite to do so. (Well, I had another think coming…)
Yes, I knew that Coke (Coca-cola founded in 1892) existed, but I was not allowed to experience those refreshments at my young age.
(I have cognitive dissonance: I know that caffeine and sugar are not good me, but, I love how an ice-cold COKE goes down on a hot day, a holiday, my birthday, George Washington’s birthday, Saturday…I like Coca-cola even though too much too often makes me gain weight. Besides, I don’t smoke…)
When our family moved to a house on an acreage, in 1956, I explored the dilapidated old garage. I discovered 100’s of Coke bottles – I did not understand. My dad said that those bottles had to be cleaned up and taken back to the store just like we did with quart glass milk bottles.
I could not imagine how many years it would take a family to drink a Coke only on a special occasion…doesn’t everyone drink milk with meals? (I was in kindergarten- little did I know… hold on to this thought on America’s most popular bottled non-beer beverage. I admit that I love to have a cold glass of COKE. – such a conundrum. )
Because of the product branding, product placement, ads on billboards, ads in magazines, the logo colors, and the fact that I wanted to be like all of the other cool college students, I drank a COKE and I loved it! I had no desire to think about the future of garbage dump let alone the streams, rivers and ocean pollution.
I allowed advertising to influence my impulse decisions. I am like many other Americans, and I felt good about “Teach(ing) the World to Sing.”
Where did I’d like to teach the world to sing originate?
For the Lea Salonga album, see I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (album). ” I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) ” is a pop song that originated as the jingle “Buy the World a Coke” in the 1971 “Hilltop” television commercial for Coca-Cola and sung by The Hillside Singers.
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
In 1960, I was 10-years old. I remember old people talking about “these kids now days will be littering the highway ditch with COKE cans.”
If only the images of Coke cans in the ditches that I had in my head could have been a fraction of the toxic trash heap we have today. I was so upset that I wrote a school paper about the trash crisis and pop bottle vending machines. (Cigarettes were also sold in vending machines too.)
In 1962 I read the book my mother had been talking about Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. As a 10 to 12-year-old my future in the year 2021 was outright scary. Yes, we did have warnings and time to plan to keep our planet Earth, safe.
The 2020 Keep America Beautiful National Litter Study is the most comprehensive study of litter in America. Since 1969 Keep America Beautiful has been the trusted source for scientifically rigorous, fact-based, non-partisan reporting on litter in America. Click HERE to learn more..
Keep in mind that the organization Keep America Beautiful knows more facts on rubbish than anyone else and I appreciate that. I think it is well worth checking out their website and studies. I have no intention of slamming them…but… America was marketed to…
(Keep reading and/or watching some enlightening videos…)
NPR:“America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, isn’t really working anymore. Recycling works, but it’s not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it’s becoming more and more clear that everybody– manufacturer and consumers– “over-believe” in recycling. This film is based in part on Throughline’s podcast episode “The Litter Myth”. Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539…
Please watch this video on You Tube and LIKE on Your tube. Let NPR know what you thought.
Here we are in 2021 and I still have things to write about on the subject of COKE related to garbage and politics.
Apr 06, 2021 · ‘Woke-A-Cola’: Coke facing blowback for resistance to Georgia voting law … Lawmakers and GOP political figures at the national level have also …
May 20, 2021 · Despite its recent foray into divisive politics, it appears the country’s most iconic soda company still wants the majority of Americans to have a Coke and a smile. A conservative group’s $1 …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/… May 02, 2017 by Bart Elmore
In 1969 Coca-Cola attempted to answer that question by asking the Midwest Research Institute to conduct a life-cycle analysis ofpackaging. The firm looked at various types of throwaway …
…The drinks company junked its re-use system. Now the oceans are full of rubbish, will it clean up its act?
How Coca-Cola Supports Recycling in the US – News & Articles
https://www.coca-colacompany.com/news/how-coca…
In 2018, Coca-Cola set an ambitious goal to help solve the problem of packaging waste in the United States and around the world. The company pledged to collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one sold by 2030; to make all of its packaging fully recyclable by 2025; and to make its bottles and cans with 50% recycled content by 2030. This global goal builds on the company’s longstanding support for …
(I sure hope the Coco-Cola finds a great solution for their packaging.)
I am not familiar with The Intercept who published an article I briefly quote below. Therefore, I cannot say if it is true or false. I felt that there has to be two sides to a debate.
And we cannot blame just Coca-cola. There is also: PepsiCo • RC Cola• Bisleri• Keurig Dr Pepper… and more in just only North America. Check it out the list on Wikipedia
The fizzy, sugar-infused taste of soda is a product that builds multi-billion-dollar brands. Although soft-drinks can have adverse effects on the drinker’s health, Americans still consume nearly 40 gallons annually, on average. This provides a huge profit margin for the largest soda companies, both domestically and internationally.
Oct 18, 2019 · For decades, Coca-Cola has burnished its public image as an environmentally caring company with donations to recycling nonprofits….
…interested in increasing the recycling rate, a bottle bill or container deposit law… requires beverage companies to tack a charge … price of their drink … refunded after it’s returned… more likely to return their bottles … financial incentive.
States with bottle bills recycle 60 percent … bottles and cans, as opposed to 24 percent in other states. … states that have bottle bills … 40 percent less beverage container litter …
But bottle bills also put some of the responsibility — and cost — of recycling back on the companies that produce the waste, which may be why Coke and other soda companies have long fought against them.
I do not know the answer to the post pandemic economy and creating jobs without making waste. Nor do I know the answer to solving toxic waste on Earth unless we all eat, and home can from our gardens in reusable glass jars. And have all that and a compostable bag of chips.
Oh NO! Let me tell about the birds, the bees and garbage pile that is getting deeper…
The birds and bees’ part in ecology for another day – so let’s get back to my favorite Coke.
What do Coke cans, American election system, a crying Native American, and trash have in common?
Please watch, LIKE, and make your comments on the YouTube.
The environmental commercial showed Cody in costume, shedding a tear after trash is thrown from the window of a car and it lands at his feet. The announcer, William Conrad, says: “People start pollution; people can stop it.” The ad won two Clio awards, incited a frenzy of community involvement, and “helped reduce litter by 88% across 38 states”, according to one reliable source. – Wikipedia
Even though Americans loved this commercial, there are some problems…
The Chicago Tribune has an eye-opening article.
The ‘Crying Indian’ ad that fooled the environmental …
Nov 21, 2017 ·Keep America Beautiful was founded in 1953 by the American Can Co. and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co., who were later joined by the likes of Coca-Cola and the Dixie Cup Co.
… that the ad that ran 27 years after his single falling teardrop should have featured Iron Eyes Cody weeping…
Writer Ted Williams … “The Metamorphosis of Keep America Beautiful” (Audubon Magazine, March 1990). Williams wrote, “ . . . It strikes me as the ultimate exploitation of Native Americans: First we kicked them off their land, then we trashed it, and now we’ve got them whoring for the trashmakers.”
… unaware … aligned… with a trade group rather than an environmental organization.
… 75 corporations fund KAB… beverage manufacturers like Coke and Pepsi … with packaging companies… promote Clean Community Systems and litter taxes as alternatives or replacements for container deposit laws…
…Bottle bills, not KAB, have kept hundreds of billions of cans and bottles from ending up as litter or landfill inventory….
Nov 20, 2008 · … group opposes the reuse and recycling legislation that might better address the problem. The information is not hard to find. Ted Williams wrote about it in 1990 for Audubon. Online, you can find many more narratives of KAB’s real motives, including a summary by the Container Recycling Institute.
… communications dis-service ever done to nature was by a 1970s TV advertising campaign which is said to have been viewed 14 billion times: the ‘Crying Indian’ by Keep America Beautiful.
.. pure genius … highly emotive campaign was that it bought a social license for mass production of disposable packaging, by championing action to clean up the pollution it led to.
… served the manufacturers of packaging well for nearly sixty years. ‘Crying Indian’ made individual consumers responsible,not the manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers. … motivated individuals to accept and act on that responsibility for ‘littering’. …. millions who take part in litter clean-ups without challenging plastic production…
… 1950s… US Government policy to stimulate consumer purchasing to boost the economy… by replacing reusable things with throw-away things.
Led by beer manufacturers, refillable bottles started to be replaced by ‘throwaway containers’ and ‘many of them were ending up as roadside trash’. Ginger Strand records:
…well-designed ad campaign. The ad itself functions on several levels of understanding … the most basic surface level(visual), emotional (the tear), to a deeper level (the symbolism of Native Americans, historical atrocities, etc.).
… ad could be perceived as a “low blow” in the tactics it utilizes to elicit a certain emotional response from the viewer, the ad does successfully communicate the message that pollution does indeed affect us all …
PS:The above article states that he was chosen as a Native American actor. I did not paste that into the quote below. Iron Eyes Cody was an actor of Italian descent, not Native American. What a crock. I feel ripped off with this lie. And you?
What if we make all container out of plastic? Will that save the planet?
Wikipedia states: ‘Microplastics could contribute up to 30% of the ‘plastic soup’ polluting the world’s oceans and – in many developed countries – are a bigger source of marine plastic pollution than the more visible larger pieces of marine litter, according to a 2017 IUCN report’.
Did you know that tires are not made of rubber? Check it out in this article: A Beautiful If Evil Strategy
…and that was only the tip of the trash iceberg…
Can you believe that the fashion industry plays an enormous part in our failing ecological balance?
The old timers will tell you how they saved worn out rags in a rag bag. Rags were used for sanitary napkins and quilt pieces. We worn clothes and sock until there was a hole, which we patched or darned. Kids worn Hand-me-downs.
CBC News
Fast fashion is a major contributor to the world’s clothing waste problem. Many of us give our old clothes to charity or drop them in a store take-back bin, but you might be surprised to learn most of it is sold and can end up in the landfill. To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.4493490
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ABC News In-depth
ABC News In-depth https://youtu.be/4fkbQynfSyY
Scientist Veena Sahajwalla is a recycling superstar with some bold new ideas about how to save waste from landfill. … Australia’s collective garbage… plastic piling up in recycling depots… almost everything was reused and “nothing was wasted”. This can-do attitude shaped her engineering career and sowed the seeds for some ground-breaking ideas, including making steel from car tires. …It’s a revolutionary concept. But will it work outside the lab? #VeenaSahajwalla #AustralianStory #GreenSteel #GreenCeramics Read more: https://ab.co/37iHi06
CBC News
Marketplace journalists go undercover overseas and pose as recycling brokers to expose the lucrative plastic recycling business. We reveal that Malaysian companies are willing to break the law to buy Canadian plastic and show how some of it is dumped and burned in illegal landfills, where the toxic fumes and run-off appear to be making people sick. Back in Canada, we buy nine tonnes of plastic and secretly track where big companies are taking it. Will it actually get recycled? To read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.5299176 »»»
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In summary:
The “I wants” of good people have created a complicated ecological, economic and emotional mess. Everyone of us humans on this green planet will need to make adjustments in our wants and needs if we want Earth to continue to have green grass and blue skies that are fit for life to survive.
What is one thing that you will do today, this week, this month and this year to make a sincere difference?
I am Malika Bourne, the No Non-cents Nanna encouraging you to make good choices
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Hits: 1This post is part two of How ‘My’ Psychic ‘Friend’ Convinced Me of the ‘Truth’ by Malika Bourne. A decade ago, I sheepishly admit that I lacked the skills to grasp the concept that some people are so sociopathic that most of what is uttered out of their mouths is a lie with the purpose of manipulating others for their own amusement. Worse yet, they have no remorse for the harm they cause by playing their sick games. There! I said it! [In part one of How My Psychic ‘Friend’ Convinced Me of the ‘Truth’ I gave petty examples of people I have known who are pathological liars and what I learned to look out for in the next […]
This post is part two of How ‘My’ Psychic ‘Friend’ Convinced Me of the ‘Truth’ by Malika Bourne.
A decade ago, I sheepishly admit that I lacked the skills to grasp the concept that some people are so sociopathic that most of what is uttered out of their mouths is a lie with the purpose of manipulating others for their own amusement. Worse yet, they have no remorse for the harm they cause by playing their sick games.
I have diligently worked to solve the puzzle as to why I have fallen prey to con -artists found in what I thought were safe places. Man I was so naïvely lost in the dark reality of real life. it turns out that I am not the first, the last, nor am I the only one to be preyed upon by a wolf in sheep’s clothes.
For most of my life I ignored my gut feeling under the manipulated notion of being “obedient to God,” “Submissive to the Word of the Lord.”
Sound familiar?
You might wonder why give the impression that blind obedience is not a good habit/ pattern of behavior. I hope you can put together the puzzle pieces you need to decide is living under the power and control of a dictator is the best life for you or not.
For decades I was making a big mistake to follow orders from false prophets. Some of my pseudo-spiritual experience involves a novel I wrote ‘inspired‘ by a woman whom I thought was my closets and dearest most trust worth friend. This post is part tow of a series where I give you clues via snippets of my published novel to see if you can recognize a toxic/ dangerous pattern of behavior in the fictional character, Grace.
After fact of moving 1,000 miles away from my friend’s secret abuse, I began boosting my knowledge of psychology then analyzing the patterns of behavior in the novel [snippets of chapter’s below] I wrote under the direction of my former friend. [Spoiler”: The book written a fiction is about how grandiose she secretly is.]
Man, did I feel stupid!
Author’s Introduction to the Purpose of This Post
Feel free to skip this part and read the Chapter Snippets of The Secrets of the Unwritten Book by Malika Bourne
Can you spot a liar? Can you spot a fraud, a flimflam, a con?
How can you separate fact from fiction?
Who is telling the truth and nothing but the truth?
Once you know the predictable patterns of behavior you will know what to look for.
[At the end of part 2 I ask you question to think about. You may choose to read the question before or after you read these few snippets of chapters of The Secrets of the Unwritten Book published in 2010 – I am the author who wove the words as fiction. I own the copyright. All rights are reserved.]
I don’t know about you in real life – I admit that I had no clue that by faith I was being used and abused. If I dared to complain I was told that I was being ‘spiritually tested” or “protected” or “battling evil”. * I escaped with PTSD. Just because I was duped, does not mean you have believed lies by a charismatic leader.
It is true, not fiction, that I naively believed more than one sugar-coated falsehood from a person claiming to be the only prophet chosen of somebody’s God to share the spiritual secrets from their God to a select few believers and prepare them for the Kingdom in this new Milennium. So did the character Anna/Malika She seriously fell into the delusion of another narcissist. And I do have an above average IQ plus common sense- I mean the character Anna falls into the grandiose mento’s delusion and she is no dummy.
In 2020 and 2021 does this all sound too familiar?
It should ring a bell with more innocent victims. Countless god-fearing good people have fallen for a Big Lie, in my opinion, but have not figured it out, yet that the pandemic is not a hoax, and the 45th US President is a Lame Duck.
Is there a connection between 2020 and my point of being taking for a toxic ride on a psychic fraud’s magical merry-go-round? yes, there is. The factual details are very different. However, the patterns of behavior or the key characters have personality traits most common with those people who have narcissistic personality disorders. and their supply of victims.
The same controlling techniques have been used on those who believe in the conspiracy theories the 2020 election was rigged. Once identified toxic/ dangerous patterns of behavior are just as predictable a Pavlov’s dogs salivating.
This post is not about the COVID pandemic, conspiracy theories, the social media posts from the 45th President or the United States, nor is it about the Insurrection and the Storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It is purely coincidence that the patterns of behavior, and consequences of the toxicity parallels to my works of fiction published over ten years ago… [The Secrets of the Unwritten Book and upcoming sequel novel. A World Disconnected.]
Note: I don’t want to convince you what to believe about the hellish events of 2020. 2021 is not even half over, yet. We all have a mature responsibility to carefully consider the sources on predictions of how the years will turn out. I don’t know cause I’m not psychic. moreover, professional analysts, are capable of calculating reasonable predictions with know facts.
If you need a refresher of 202o I will provide some clickable links to help you. I encourage you to think. Yes, use critical thinking as you read my excerpts of my book, keeping in mind that you are looking to find toxic patterns of behavior in the snippets from my novel. Dangerous leaders do not want their followers to ‘think”. Toxic leaders want followers who will not question – only to be blindly lead. This was the setting in the delusional script aka perfectly balanced with love-light allegorical heaven where the act of thinking was forbidden. [Gag!]
Sure, I felt something in my gut, as I was taught how to ‘”turn within to talk to the Creator“. Just I was taught how to intercede with prayer against evil, and how to speak in tongues in my last cultish experience that I escaped from.
But I was always trying to be polite so much so that I dismissed the fact that I was being set up to be used and abused when I was told that it was my destiny to write my former best friends secrets in a novel. The Secrets of the Unwritten Book. Yes, I was obeying commands to submit and obey the shepherd like a good sheep. What good Christian does not think this way?
The purpose of that damned fictional book (roughly based on my toxic mentor and me) was to wake the 144,000 angels on a heavenly mission to fictional planet – it was time to bring them home to an allegorical heaven, Lamoria, before the fictional planet was destroyed Armageddon style. [Spoiler: The need to destroy evil was all my the character Anna’s fault, I was told.]
Does this smell like an overload of manure somewhere in here?
It should. Parts of the fictional are autobiographical slipped in with plagiarized religious myths dictated by a person who had a heavenly secret to tell the world…and I – I mean it was the fault of character Anna aka Queen Malika who naively obeyed her every whim– I mean submitted to the Angelic Plan to fix her failure to do her job.
[No need to keep these characters straight…It is so enterically complicated that even I had a difficult time separating fact from fiction. That is what helps the scam artists fulfill their sinister plans… they overwhelm the victim witnesses to distraction.]
I am ready to publicly admit that I fell for the false prophesies of a woman who claimed to talk to the angels. You had to be there. The next best position in the here and now is to read the whole book, The Secrets of the Unwritten Book.
I fell for the over-inflated grandeur of a psychic actress who have me do all of her marketing for her cult, by writing and marketing this book. I merrily glorified her ‘untruths’ which she gave me for free – I was so special. She charged other victims clients $20 for a half hour reading for vague messages from the angles. When they were gone- she laughed about telling them bullshit.
I have no idea of how many people that read the book fell into the delusion as well. They believed the lie that they had gotten WOKE, too. Therefore, I have been carefully working on a sequel to undo any damage by The Secrets by writing A World Disconnected. Yes, this is pre-publication self-promotion as well as my tips on waking up to the fact that there are far too my shysters in the world. Take what you want and leave the rest. I am not a counselor nor a psychologist. My writing is for entertainment, only.
The ‘angelic messenger’ said that she had tried to wake others, but they rejected her after they refused to do the work for the Creator.
She also claimed that I was a heavenly being whom she and my heavenly mate had been waiting for me to wake. It was my destiny, according to the psychic, that I assist her (my sister, a Queen in the Kingdom of Lamoria) in finding those who had been spies for the Kingdom of the Creator. They were to be woke while we still lived in the Fourth Dimension when the time was right.
[I made the words Fourth Dimension clickable for you. Now you have the advantage of putting together something that I should have questioned more.]
These are clips of paragraphs from The Secrets of the Unwritten Book: Fate of A Planet (first printing.) And (2nd printing) The Secrets of the Unwritten Book: Fate of the Golden Heart. I am not sharing the entire book.
Both editions with two different publishers are for sale on Amazon and several other blook sellers. However, please note that I make absolutely no royalties currently. I had personal reasons to pull this frictional work from distribution. In the near future, after get the legal ducks in a row and I complete the sequel with greater care than I did with The Secrets of the Unwritten Book, I will re-release it to hopefully make a few bucks in royalties, then.
Chapter Snippets Begin Here
GRACE’S STORY: THE AWAKENINGS
The Secrets of the Unwritten Book chapter 12 page 113
This was to be the first awakening. She [Grace] began to come into being
Mika, but did not know it yet.
Grace, now having an awareness of herself, decided to continue
her education. She had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, so she
completed college with three master’s degrees. She was very creative
and had a zest for everything that she did.
After ten years of marriage, Grace finds herself having been divorced and living alone in a charming bungalow.
She is a social worker for social service agency.
They call her ‘the miracle worker’. Everyone wants to be her client as she is able to assist her clients in miraculous ways.
She had an uncanny way of making each individual feel as if they were the most special person that she worked with….
page 115
Later in time…
One of Grace’s many accomplishments lead her to a teaching job
at a local high school. Her class was a group of special education
students.
It was an ordinary day while she was working on her reports,
when a shy student named Lyle, approached her. He had distinctive
eyes, ivory skin and was small for his age.
Lyle spoke in a soft voice, “Hello, my name is Lyle. I have a gift
and I am able to talk to the angels and other beings of light. I have
something to tell you about yourself.”
Bewildered, Grace retorted, “I don’t know what you mean.”
Lyle began telling her that he knew many things about her. He told
her that she was “a true seeker and had turned within, seeking for a
long time
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Lyle laughed with a twinkle in his eye. “You also believe in things
you cannot see as opposed to those you can see.”
Grace was enchanted by the vibration of truth in his voice, but
also became somewhat guarded. As Lyle continued to penetrate her
with his celestial blue eyes, she asked. “Who are you?
I don’t understand how you know all this about me.”
Lyle remained calm and asked if they could go somewhere to talk.
Hesitantly she agrees, finding herself driving to a small café, called
‘Passing Time’.
Once seated, she was filled with trepidation and ambivalence
reigned supreme. He proceeded to tell her all about her background
with both of her parents, and he spoke of her relationship with her
current husband. He talked about her relationship with the Creator
and understanding of how things worked regarding energy.
She began to get the feeling that he was a messenger from another planet or
a celestial like realm.
She felt that he carried a great many truths; truths that many great
masters and sages who once walked in the Fourth Dimension held.
But, he appeared to be only sixteen- or seventeen-year-old; a little
guru, perhaps?
She asked, “How can you do this?”
One week later in time and the light came down…
Lyle taught Grace to channel. She caught on very quickly, beginning actively to use her new gift, ‘the voice’.
Grace is now able to channel the Arch Angel Michael, who gives the
following information.
“I am Michael! I will teach you about the planet you live on. [Dirty Green Planet, MYLANTRA] They don’t pay attention to love. They simply use their crystals to destroy
the light. They go around and around about love. They cannot get peace or bliss. It is impossible as long as they think.”
“The act of thinking is an instrument filled with sickles and knives.
needles and pins. Those who live in higher intelligence are those in higher light; we call ourselves Lamorians. Instead of thinking we are able
to telepathically communicate to beings of light on the green planet in
the Fourth Dimension. Some are angels, while others are Leprechauns,
fairies, pixies and elves to name a few of the sects of Lamorians.”
“To have total knowing, which is what Lamorians have, makes it
possible to see into the future. There is no fear in knowing with certainty. You have complete knowledge about all universes, galaxies, and creations in light.”
“Those that think, have major equipment in their faces and the top of the craniums. This makes them radios in the sun, as they take power over the Light. There is no joy on the planet that we call ‘Planet Dirt’.”
“The sun is everything to the humanoids. They communicate to…
page 120
…forms of life down under called ‘pods’. The sun is what gives the creatures in the pods the ability to radio into humanoids on the planet. Mylantra has to be destroyed!”
Grace listened carefully to every word Michael said.
She then exclaims, “What? What did you say?”
She is in disbelief about equipment in the faces and craniums …
Meanwhile in Lamoria… page 123
In Lamoria groups of giants are gathered in the marketplace discussing the impossible mission.
“It is so wonderful watching Queen Mika and King Abba together
again. (Grace and Dutch) They are so creative, as we know they are. They are so happy
blowing up so many colors of balloons, all day, in time. It is a brilliant
trick.”
“Did you hear that there was yet another newspaper article about
them? They are very well known, but humanoids do not have a hint
of who they really are in the scheme of the universe. This is a brilliant
trick to collect notes. Their disguises are working well.”
“Yes, I hear news from the ships that the machines are collecting
notes like never before. This is so exciting to the mission!”
The Secrets of the Unwritten Book
page 109 THE AWAKENING OF ANNA
No one on the planet knows about the invisible equipment that humanoids have in their bodies.
[Anna’s] Lamorian essence is still asleep inside a humanoid body. So, she is unaware
that the Mylantran inhabitants are nothing, but evil machines programmed to search and destroy Anna the machine.
That fact is not known to the Mylantrans themselves.
They see themselves much differently than they really are.
The machine is oblivious and naïve to whom she really is. She
does hear Angelo (Malika’s mate) as he constantly whispers into her (Anna) as he had promised.
She (Anna) does not understand why she seems to know things in her
head and cannot explain the meanings to her dreams. Nor will she
understand how or why she knew people around her would die, or
floods and tornadoes would destroy people’s homes. Strange things
happened to people who weren’t too nice to Anna.
She did not understand the significance of many things.
She has not yet begun to fit any of the pieces of an intricate puzzle…
(Queen Malika is sort of Anna’s alter-ego who essence sleeps in a glass -coffin while her cloned machine does all the dirty work. TMI?)
Author’s Note: Part three of this series will give you more insight on the protagonist, Anna Baker. Hint: she is the opposite of the character Grace aka Queen Mika.
Page 126
And so the two queens returned to their lives on the Planet Dirt.
Grace awakening with ‘the voice’, and still looking for the one with
the golden heart.
“Dutch, you were so rude. That is not like you. You always have a
way to make everyone feel so special.”
Later in time…
Grace and Dutch lived with ‘the voice’. [No, not the long running TV hit, The Voice.]
They had all sorts of questions and all Grace had to do was ask a question and she would receive an answer.
There was no thinking involved. She just knew that
she would receive a telepathic answer and she would speak it aloud.
Dutch was always saying, “Grace, ask them about this question…”
His quest for knowledge was unstoppable.
One day when Dutch was very ill, Grace asked Michael if Dutch
was going to pass into the light.
Michael replied, “Yes, but I will not tell you when. He will have a
peaceful passing. He will return home and get his powers back.”
Grace did not understand how big this phenomenon was to be.
Back on the dirty green planet…
It was a quiet and uneventful day. Grace was content with the
business and way too busy.
Dutch would say, “Grace, slow down! It just doesn’t matter!”
Out of the blue Dutch takes Grace in his now very skinny arms to
passionately and slowly kiss her.
“I love you forever and always. My love for you is beyond the
stars.”
Grace thinks, “That was better than nice. What was that all
about?”
Dutch turns and slowly walks up the stairs to take a nap in the big brass bed.
Nonchalantly, he lies down and goes to sleep. His arms
were crossed over his chest. He smiles: a peaceful and knowing look
on his face. He sleeps and quietly passes into the light.
page 131
Chapter Fifteen Listen to your heart and you will find truth in all things.—Grace
Grace is teaching classes through the community college called ‘Becoming a Psychic’.
Her bungalow is just the right for an intimate setting and is able to accommodate up to twenty-five students.
The students in her classes are always awestruck at her wisdom and
knowledge. As a bonus the students would also gain a great deal of
growth in self-esteem.
The classes flowed like a gentle river.
Students were free to ask questions relevant to the subject and they were able to receive channeling through Grace about themselves after class.
The last group that Grace was to mentor was proven to be quite different and life altering.
…your nemesis, Medea! We succeeded in tricking him to believe that he was an angel named Layla.
We captured the King of Communion during infancy, but you will still have to be
careful.
We are sorry that we did not tell you before now, and we
know that we will be punished.”
Grace was stunned. She had a house full of students who expected
to be taught.
“Alright everyone, I apologize for the disruptions. I believe that
the distraction has been taken care of. I’ll see you all next week.
Be prepared to put into practice what you have learned so far.
Remember to turn within to find out who you are.”
Grace holds the door for the last students who were still holding
their sides from laughter. She not only forgets to lock the door but
does not get it closed all the way.
She is distracted by a burning sensation under her arm.
page 135
“What is this? My arm is all red? It burns!”
Grace turns within seeking help. The channel was empty. She got
no response. ‘They’, the angels, were hiding and she did not know
why.
On the Lamoria Angel ship…
Michael is frantic.
“They found her on the matrix. I did not get an adequate protective ray down on my mother’s machine. It is only a machine, so we will be able to collect great volumes of notes. We will fool the dark side into thinking that they took her down. This is a necessary trick for the success of the mission.”
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…end of part two…
Questions:
From these clips what words can you use to describe the persona of Grace?
