The 3 R’s
Hopefully you’ve been told about the 3 R’s since you first went to school. I know I was. We’ve all heard it, and we all understand it. Let’s follow the code of the 3 R’s for a better Earth.
Think, before you purchase products. Do you really need it? We need to drastically reduce demand, so that we can drastically reduce supply. It makes plenty of sense. Do not be wasteful. A couple of examples; do not replace your cell phone every time a new one comes out, and do not buy a new TV because it is three inches bigger than the one you have presently. When it comes down to it, if it ain’t broke, don’t replace it, unless we are talking about energy draining appliances and other products being replaced with energy saving ones.
I suppose a great way to assure what you no longer need is reused, would be to hold a yard sale. Even better, a FREE yard sale. You do not need it, and you do not want these products wasted, everyone loves free. Yard sales and flea markets are a great way of keeping waste out of our landfills. That horrible piece of art work that you despise but have not thrown out will do much better on the wall of someone who enjoys it, than it would rotting in a dump. Almost everything is reusable. Everything should be used, until it becomes unusable. Reusing is really just another way of reducing. Compost is another powerful form of reusing. Whether you are composting it in your own outdoor bin, or you contribute to your communities compost pile, this is reusing.
I do not have any idea of the official numbers, but i am certain the majority of what ends up in the garbage is recyclable (even used diapers can be recycled). The two people within my home(the lady and I) only put out half of a small bag of garbage per week. Most of it is fully recyclable. It just needs to be separated and bagged. Much of the rest should be compost. There is no need for even a tiny amount of recyclable product to be thrown in the garbage. Plastic for example requires oil which had to be extracted from our planet and shipped to wherever. By recycling that very plastic, we take away the extraction process, the use of that oil, and the pollution caused by the shipping of that oil. We have at this point in time extracted enough of everything from our planet to sustain humanity. Now we just need to use what we extracted over, and over, and over.
-Mr. SoVeg
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