Someone should do something about this.

There's something that's just wrong about throwing a plant away.  I understand that you're moving, that you don't have room for it, or that you just don't want it anymore, but still, tossing a live plant into a trash can, dumpster, or leaving it by the curb for the garbage man just seems wrong.  I guess that's why I couldn't just toss Captain Sticky out when I moved.  (Instead, I wrapped him up in two garbage bags so he wouldn't wreck my stuff.)  I thought about throwing him away, but something just seemed wrong about it.  I think it's because it was alive and despite its problem, didn't appear to be dying.  I guess other people don't have a problem throwing plants away, but I am not one of them.  (Heck, I had trouble giving away old stuffed animals because I didn't know where they were going to end up, so of course I would have problems throwing plants away.)     

Now, before you mark me off as the crazy plant girl, I do have standards.  If a plant is dead, then by all means throw it out, but if it's alive, that's another matter entirely.  It's alive and it's not going to have a better life sitting amid discarded orange peels and junk mail.  It should be given a chance for another life.  That's why I think there should be a plant pound where people can bring their unwanted plants.  Then people who want a plant can buy it for cheap and the plant can continue to live and keep supplying oxygen to the world.  I don't know if anyone has ever done this, but I know that I'd go to one if I knew it existed because as Linus said in A Charlie Brown Christmas, "I never thought it was such a bad little tree.  It's not bad at all really.  Maybe it just needs a little love."