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Junk recycling
There is passive recycling and there is active recycling. Make no mistake, recycling is here to stay. And then there is aggressive recycling. Aggressive recycling means taking the more assertive path to getting a re-use and reductive second life for and with many heretofore throwaway materials and bits of “junk”.
Today there is a green value to stuff that thirty years ago would have pitched in a ditch. The curbside stuff people got to throw out twenty years ago probably has an Ebay resale value or antique price value forever now lost.
Ten years ago people filled their trash bags with everything but the kitchen sink and left it for the refuse people to deal with. This recycled “junk” is actually biofuel treasure, second generation furniture fodder, and found art and project resources that can and should be re-used.
But today, we know that those trash trucks have to go somewhere. Landfills have become a big ticket sustainability sin. Waste management everywhere is tasked with keeping hillsides dug and landfill tables dense with unrecoverable toxic decay and groundwater contamination.
Aggressive waste “hiding” has been the method of dealing with post consumer waste in the past half century or better, even when science and social studies taught about the damages to be done. Any effort to recycle today must be in sympathetic response to decades of irresponsible lack of recycling and reclamation of energy, as well as industrial pollution.
To make a progressive start toward the recycling habits that will last you the rest of your life (and the rest of this planet’s) keep reading. The tropes of recycling today mean a host of websites and services for pickup, as well as platforms like recycling. Having a bulk of stuff going to the landfill is an equation of net loss for sustainable green living.
If you have lumber or wood, some type of resource that people want, make an effort to let someone take advantage of the situation and recycle it. if you are doing a spring cleaning, list a few items on Ebay to see if someone might not need that vacuum cleaner model bag or power drill attachment.
Think of the necessary effort and labor going into replacing, shipping, and disposing of an entire separate object identical to that. The transportation and packaging involved. That is the net sustainable savings of resources.
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