It struck me yesterday as I was walking the dog and picked up his “business” with a plastic bag that the same Liberal Elitists who who got the whole poop-scooping movement rolling probably never considered the unintended consequences. I was curious. How many dogs are there in America, and how much plastic goes un-recycled because of this practice? Doing some rough math, based on the idea that I can squish a plastic bag down to about a one-inch cube, I determined that we waste enough plastic this way to fill the first 26 floors of the Sears Tower. Which, as you can see, forced me to create one of the worst info-graphics ever. The fact remains that in spite of tremendous improvements in America’s recycling behaviour, we still only recycle an estimated 2 percent of the plastic bags  we use daily. San Francisco was one of the first communities to tackle this problem head-on, but real action remains feeble nationwide. Interested in keeping your consumer behaviour green in general? Another big offender is cell phones; consider selling your discarded phones to GreenPhone.com. They claim that for every phone they buy, they plant a tree. You can also make smarter choices in the first place; EnergyStar.gov has been around for ages, and has plenty of great resources for consumers. And for businesses looking for greener computer hardware, there are resources like EPEAT.