https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/single-stream-recycling-and-china-throwing-recycling-markets-into-chaos?gclid=CjwKCAjw95D0BRBFEiwAcO1KDDHLZcjQTQtW18BxH6ED9trUY7lMB-U_TlCkda-aMUTC9GzqoFmjhBoC5OMQAvD_BwE
All through my little insignificant writings of over the last 30+ years I have generally emphasized conservation, low-input (sustainable agriculture), simple and small, sufficiency over efficiency, the Second (“Natural”) LAW of Thermodynamics, small individual and collective ecological footprints, and REDUCTION over recycling. Nevertheless, in an attempts to try and get SOMETHING done here locally, I joined in the effort to realize curbside pickup of supposedly recyclable materials including supposedly recyclable plastics as a single stream (and involving a very high input/throughput-systems and -anthropogenic energetics).
What a damn idiot!!!
I was duped into some sort of false hope by compelling and manipulative propaganda of corrupt and greedy transnational corporations (and real people therein) in our international neo-liberal capitalistic economic system! (I plan to post a little poem dealing with this which I scratched out last eve after watching this amazing Frontline production noted above. A tentative title is: The Power of Myth: The Easter Bunny, the Invisible Hand, and Plastics.)
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Now … let’s get with a program of banning single-use plastics and other plastics in our area (and others). Let’s live through appropriate livelihoods and lifestyles and behaviors, and … conserve, reduce consumption, and lower our ecological footprints!
pbm
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Lately I’m doing more, since the new year anyway. I just don’t buy things that are in plastic unless I absolutely have to. Only buy the whipping cream for my coffee, because it doesn’ have that plastic cap.
Learned of a way to buy detergent without any plastic packaging through Dropps. It`s a subscription, and it’s great.
I’m still absolutely shocked when supposedly conscious people use Styrofoam. Where have they been since Sierra Club sid over 30 years ago, `There is no good Styrofoam!` Even now some people think it can be recycled.
Who’s that white-haired woman in one of the pictures?
Me, Sylvia
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