BY BLUE FISH
SILVER SPRING, MD—The Silver Spring Landfill thanked the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists today for helping them make their required allotment of biodegradable material. The landfill’s biodegradable level had been hovering at a dangerous 35% which was becoming an environmental hazard.
But the director for the Silver Springs landfill was relieved when he heard about the General Conference’s plans to deliver copies of The Great Controversy to 22,000 homes in the 20904 postal code area.
“We were wondering about how we would make our quota of 50% biodegradable product. The General Conference’s announcement was a Godsend!” exclaimed a delighted Margaret Russo, director for the landfill.
When asked about the correlation between the General Conference announcement and the landfill’s quota needs, Russo explained that he anticipated most residents would simply discard the books as soon as they received them.
“All of us are well aware of what people do when they receive religious literature in the mail. In the past, we’ve had a fruitful relationship with Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons but hasn’t been enough in recent months. That’s when the General Conference stepped in and made life easier for us,” said Russo.
A local survey showed that 90% of the residents in the area throw away any religious literature in the mail, although 10% said that The Great Controversy would potentially interest them.
Russo expected to fill site A with at least 8,000 books dumped from Sherwood Forest and a further 7,000 from Wheaton-Glenmont later in the day to be deposited in site B.
“We don’t know whether it was intentional or not but we’re grateful for the General Conference’s selflessness. We hope this begins a long association between our two organizations,” stated Russo.
The General Conference announcement also proved to be a welcome tonic for the embattled US Conference of Catholic Bishops who were pleased to award the Seventh-day Adventist church with the Order of Evangelism.
“We commend our Adventist friends for their distinguished service in inoculating our church members from Adventist doctrines. I don’t know where they get these wonderful ideas from but we sure hope they keep ‘em coming.”
