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Every day on my walks, I find vapes littering my neighborhood.
What a waste of resources to create something so useless. 800 puffs and then it becomes e-waste.
I marvel at this world.
And am totally disgusted by those who treat it with so little regard.
Reduction is the least observed of the three R's of environmentalism ('reduce, reuse, recycle') but it's probably the most important. Reuse and recycling are sensible measures in an over-productive society, but why not neutralise the problem of overproduction at the source? Instead of choosing to act efficiently at the end of a product's life cycle by reusing or recycling it, we should stop said product from being made in the first place by eliminating consumer demand for it. If the rainforests must be burned and the oceans poisoned to cater for the essentials of human life, then so be it and we'll call it an inevitable pity; but for that to happen in the name of games consoles, cell phones and chocolate fountains is a wanton and avoidable shame.
(Robert Wringham)
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Hear, hear! I wish I could believe that our food packaging would correct their use of plastics alone and that would make a difference!!! It's silly that stores won't use plastic bags to carry out groceries but still use plastic for their veggies, etc. Such contradictions!
You said it!
Agreed. We do still have bags available in the stores here, but not in Washington State. When we're back there visiting, I have to remember to take bags to the store with me, but then, I walk around the store adn see all of the plastics being used to package the groceries. And there is NO recycling here at our condo association. I was used to having a tiny garbage can and a recycling bin three times the size. And we filled that bin every week with recycling. Now it goes into the trash and seems so wasteful to me.
Blessings,
Betsy
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