Every Last Drop

 This morning I learned that my squirt-stem body lotion bottle was empty. The plastic container was not a see-through.  I just bought this lotion and now it was empty? Who would know. Holding the container up to the light, I noticed that a couple of inches of the product remained.  I decided to find a way to take off the top, which I have been known to do to get at the rest of the item inside. Not easily possible. The top had no screw lid; it was sealed. Later, using a knife to yank off the top part of the plastic bottle and pull out the stem, I had access to the the inside and was able to use the creamy liquid to the last drop. It occurred to me that tons of bottles and other containers made this way, are likey to be lying unused in garbage dumps. How much product is wasted this way in a time when we are trying to be practical and conscious of responsible consumerism. It's why the devastated populations go into our garbage dumps and dumpsters to finish what we toss out not all used.  Waste that we make will one day perhaps be used by the far future humans left on a bare earth. Manufacturers who make deliberately, containers of this kind, should be revealed for their irresponsible motivations. They design products that they know will be like what is in my lotion bottle: something that will be tossed before it is all used and the unwitting customer will buy another. We need to be smarter than that. We consumers must stop buying from such makers and inform them, why. We need to be activists about what we buy that isn't what we believe in. We can do reviews that matter. When people are forced to live on the street in tents, those of us more fortunate need to be more responsible  regarding waste. Let's promise to use, from now on, every last drop and to inform manfacturers that we are aware of what they are up to. It's our job as consumers to make the marketplace what it ought to be. It's up to us.