The Lengths People Will Go To…
It seems that Americans still care more about convenience than the planet. A law banning phosphate-based dishwashing soap has led residents of Spokane to dash across state lines to smuggle in “bootleg” detergents:
Real estate agent Patti Marcotte of Spokane stocks up on detergent at a Costco in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and doesn’t care who knows it.
“Yes, I am a smuggler,” she said. “I’m taking my chances because dirty dishes I cannot live with.”
Because of course, in the hierarchy of American values, dirty dishes are oooh so much worse than the resultant dirty lakes and streams that result from phosphates.
