Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for March 24, 2024

Leave Zoey in the dump. The rest of the family would be much happier.

I like the human foot in panel four. Nice touch.

The irony is that that’s what actually happens regardless of the special bin.

We have bags and bags of recyclables in the garage. If we ever take them somewhere we can park in the garage again.

Nope, chances are it ends up in the trash again – and all that gas was wasted and added to climate change.

So we drive a huge SUV miles to recycle one small plastic bottle…

Smart girl.

Whoa! That is one guilt trip tripper upper.

Dads will do almost anything for their kids!

The planet thanks you, Darryl!

Ah, back to the old days of reusable soda bottles, cardboard milk cartons, much less plastic back then!

What is sad and aggravating is that the only things that are consistently recycled are glass bottles, Aluminum cans, paper and cardboard. We really need to promote research to find better ways to recycle plastic.

Like many in the comments, I am sad to say most plastic “recycling” never gets recycled but ends up in the landfill. We simply have to move past plastic packaging. We had packaging before plastic, and we can have a new kind that actually doesn’t stay in the environment forever or kill the oceans or add so much to climate change. It just takes the will to change.

I don’t get it. Are they both going to the dump, and to their own plastic recycling bin?

Oh! I get it! He’s having second thought when throwing it, and takes it home, to recycle it.

Then the question will be: Why on earth would he drive away first???

Second question: Why didn’t Zoe go out and recycle it herself? Or, better, put in the temporary storage used to collect different items?

“There! It’s recycled!”?? She (and maybe he) has so much to learn….

I’d like to know how Darryl knew which pile it was in.

nice catch, I didn’t notice it

Wait till she learns it just means its going to a different landfill.

Meanwhile, Darryl burned gasoline from refined oil that required electricity from a coal burning power plant emitting carbon products while also emitting carbon products; leaving micro-rubber material on the roadway to be washed into the lakes and rivers polluting the water supply, etc.

and then it winds up back in the same landfill

Hopefully by the time she’s grown up, this won’t be How It Works…

They wouldn’t let Daryl do that. You can’t dig through the dump anymore.

That foot belongs to Jimmy Hoffa

Recycling in America is a Joke.

That’s my wife. She will dig , or make me dig, thru the can and dispose it

He should have picked up some E.T. cartridges while he was there.

It’s gonna wind up back there anyway.

Nobody seemed to notice that this is an example of what’s wrong with these kids: They shouldn’t have the power to coerce parents into doing whatever they want them to do! Zoe has been brainwashed!

Why isn’t he recycling the can too?

Gomi shūshū laws.

And we have environmentally-responsible puberty

Really Daryl? You let Zoe guilt you into wasting gas and time to go to a hazardous dump site, which in most cases people are not allowed, to find one bottle?? You are an idiot. Recycling is important but so is teaching your kids who and what is important and who is in charge.

Of course they spent ten times as much buying gas.

Daryl is then fined for trespassing.

Recycling would be a whole lot better if more than 10% of what we put in to it actually got recycled. For the most part, we’ve all been hooked by a bait and switch media campaign where we get warm fuzzy feelings about helping the environment when in reality very little recycling actually happens.

Wish cycling - probably had a 5 on the bottom which means it’ll get thrown out by the recyclers anyway

Seriously?

How much energy was expended to get to and from the landfill? One of Zoe’s household chores is now to sort their trash for recyclables.

I remember when markets decided to switch to plastic bags for customers groceries to “save the trees.”

Never saw it!

Half of recycling ends up back in the landfill anyway.

And now we are going to sit here and wait until the “recycling” truck comes by. We will then follow it to the same landfill and watch as the metal is sorted out and the rest is dumped on the same piles that you just had me go through.

Saving the planet one step at a time!

A girl after my own heart!!! ❤️

That foot distracts from the responsible daughter. And the whole story reminds me of my unfortunate situation in that there is NO recycling here. It’s why PA is the landfill capital of the US.

While I am happy that Zoe is environmentally conscious, why did she wait till the garbage truck had already collected? Zoe should have encouraged Darryl earlier.

If Zoe wanted it recycled that badly, Darryl should have made her find it.