A few years back, I signed up for free daily eco tips from this service called idealbite.com, with a vague hope that I could make my scramble-in-the-morning-third world city-life-lifestyle less harmful to the environment.
Recently, I also got inspired by PCIJ’s A Feminine Challenge. (read here: http://www.pcij.org/i-report/2007/sanitary-pads.html)
Today I got this on my inbox from IdealBite:
What's the second-best thing about sex on the kitchen counter?
The Bite
With the trash bin right there, you'll be less tempted to flush the condom. Throwing condoms in the trash when sexy-time's over is the better Biting option, since when flushed, last night's remains could end up ruining a perfectly good beach party.
The Benefits
Cleaner waterways. Flushed condoms can get by water treatment and end up on your favorite beach. In 2006, Ocean Conservancy beach cleaner-uppers picked up 30,252 condoms.
Healthier sea creatures. Animals can mistake condoms for food.
Clearer septic systems. Condoms can get stuck and hang out in your pipes for years, and even if they don't, H2O treatment workers have to fish them out of the water and send them to landfills anyway.
We've found that adopting this tip helps us remember to take out the trash regularly.
Wanna Try?
Um, put it in the garbage.
Travel tip: While swimming the Amazon, wear a condom to prevent the parasitic candirú fish from lodging itself in your urethra.
It's simple, and next time you're at the beach, there's less chance of stepping on something you wish were a jellyfish.
My take?
Develop eatable condoms. Yeah, literally, as in like the White Rabbit Candy.
You know, Daki of Pisay the movie fame was my classmate, and he won a young scientist award for making chicken feathers into chicken feed. So I know, in a very personal way, that nothing is impossible. All it takes is imagination. Or a crazy mind.
Now what about dem eatable condoms? What could be more honestly environmental?
What about it, Shanghai Guanshengyuan Food, Ltd?
Ok, have to work now…
Eatable condoms? That's a product that will sell. But will drive the conservatives crazy hehe. 