recycology

is there yet an academic discipline
that studies recycling,
an equivalent to garbology, started
by w. rathje in 1973?

i refuse to accept that the two are
related, that garbology
somehow is enough. (but i would accept
this argument: garbology

is the study of what a society throws
away while recycology--
my coinage; "re-return of the repressed!"
--is the study of what

a society would like to throw away but
has been shamed into
having a social conscience about.
(o! speaking of shame,

i've been doing some amateur recycology
w/ my downstairs neighbors'
recycling. someone in that apartment is
drinking, every 2 weeks

one large multi-liter bottle of water.
& that's it. what is the
source of my shame? my own recycling is
far more ample than theirs.

for some reason, though, it makes me think
that they live far more
harmoniously w/ nature than i do--what kind
of envy i ask is this?)

(on the other
hand, maybe
they throw
away things
they ought
to recycle.

(they're from indonesia, after all.)))