Life: The Cycle of (Consumer Products) Life
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 6:17PM After Christmas, Tosha and began a conscious effort to recycle what we typically would throw in the garbage can. Little did we know, we were throwing out quite a few items that could have been turned into high way signs, composite lumber, office paper, cell phones and so forth.
I am just amazed to see how much we've wasted all these years. Two people living in a house accumulated all of this in just two weeks:
To give you an idea of what "all of this" is, we practically filled the 60 gallon tote provided to us by the Metropolitan Waste Authority.
I am glad that we have curbed our contribution to our growing wasteful landfills that could otherwise be used as recreational parks, farmlands or even natural life reservoirs. It's the amount of non-biodegradable products that are thrown in the brown bin that could just as easily be placed in the green bin. I'm not here to preach or advocate the habit to recycle. But if we can take a household product once we're finished with it and turn it into another product, why not make that a daily routine? It would take less than a second to decide whether to throw a jug of Drain-O into the green bin or send it off to one of these:
Third Party photograph footnotes. From left to right, Methane article, Trash and Recycling not Recession Proof and Cash-Strapped Riverside County May Sell Its Landfills
I also would llike to point out that I am by no means an advocate of global warming as a result of humankind. I believe that natural global warming long predates the industrial revolution, before energy became a household necessity or even Biblical times. With that being said, it is also not the point of this post.
Aside from missing photography and the interaction between people, I wanted to show how much Tosha and I as a household can recycle. After researching what plastics are recycled into, it gives me great hope that humankind is aware of what it is doing and in return are correcting the wrongs.
Tosha and I have always made an effort to recycle soda bottles and cans or shredded our office paper at work. But just to realize that we are recycling and reusing other products makes us feel a whole lot better that we are not leaving trash for our children to clean up.
