Waste Recycling

What A Waste!!

That is not a comment on your life, though it should be on your lifestyle.

We all need to waste less and less: individuals, families, communities, even governments ( no brainer there.) The key is to recycle as much of our waste as we can and to come up with more innovative and less expensive ways to do so.

 Face it, we are a wasteful society. We need to account for and figure out how to re-utilize what we no longer use. People are using treated scraps of paper and even food for insulation in their homes. Communities are toying around with scraps as alternative fuels. Companies are recycling what they once threw away. Governments? Well, ok, three out of four isn't bad.

 More an more people are buying used. Look at E-bay. If you think about it, selling the old stuff you do not want to someone else to use is a form of recycling. Just because someone's needs or tastes change does not make an item worthless. In fact, some things over time actually increase in value. Like '65 Mustangs, good wine and some baseball cards.

 Source reduction in the form of re-using scraps and discarded materials is growing in popularity in industry. More and more innovative ways to recycle or dispose of what was once unwanted is enticing many companies worldwide to re-think how they use their raw materials.

 If you think about it, trash doesn't go anywhere. It stays in landfills for generations, or gets dumped in oceans only to wash up onto someone else's area of the world. That is no way to treat your neighbor.

We all need to educate ourselves, our employers and our children of the benefits of be frugal with our resources. After all we are all sharing the same space, and who wants to share it with garbage?