Putting The 'mental' Into Environmentalism

On my flight, as I prepared to leave,
I took the barely drunk from bottle of water
left behind by a fellow passenger.

I would never buy that sort of thing,
not least because of packaging
uses up three times more water
than I would be drinking.

It was packaged by Coca Cola
under the Northern Irish brand 'Deep River Rock'
as manufactured in Lisburn, Co Down.

The final absurdity-on-top-of-absurdity
was seeing that it had a 'best before' date,
as if such a figure was the best way
to measure the world and all it's resources.