Recycling Pandemic Spray Bottles

Spray bottles and masks are the main pandemic items that will increase in value, and sold at auction houses like Sotheby’s for millions of dollars. Why? Historical value. They will tell future generations about a virus called COVID-19 and how it clanged shut the world, like a prison door.

Spray bottles are bad news for the environment because the guns cannot be recycled. Yes, they should be called guns in plastic bottles. We overlooked that during the height of the pandemic and used sanitizers, shops and buildings placed at the entrance.

Cleaners don’t see it that way for a good reason. They only have two hands. One holds the bottle and the other the follow-up rag. Hotels, public toilets, office buildings and shopping malls have difficult to reach areas. That is where the spray bottle comes in handy.

Besides, the high voltage cleaning the pandemic demanded, spray bottles represent our midnight side. We are violent by nature. We seek power. Billionaires have it because they buy oil before it leaves the ground.

Lesser people are powerless so they resort to temporary force like spray bottles. We see a family of bugs on the patio. We grab the bottle and blast them away. A cockroach? Blow him up, forgetting that his family exists because we don’t do dishes and empty garbage cans.

Spray bottles make us so powerful, we think we can fight the sun. Summer is here. Forget rubbing on suntan lotion. Use the latest product with a spray bottle. That will take care of the conceited sun.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.