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Recycled junk seems like a trashy name for a blog, literally. But it’s going to take some sloshing around in the trash compactor to make the world start turning again the way it was meant to.
Today we have landfills full of plastics for every drug prescription that gets filled, junkyards of rotten vehicle corpses, and island of trash floating around in the ocean with its own permanent address.
The time for recycling anything has come, whether it’s yesterday’s salad scraps in the compost bin or tomorrow’s tomato seeds in the vegetable garden. Trash of some kinds has uses, and re-uses.
Every step that can possibly be taken by anyone capable for sustainability and re-use means that fresh resources churned into waste become all the more relatively wasteful. It’s difficult to realize how permanant garbage and toxic waste has become in our age.
Nuclear decay, landfill waste, and chemical and medical incinerables are daily reminders that our standard of living has a cost. This hidden cost is going to show up in our water tables sooner or later, in our sky today, and in our food constantly.
In fact, it is in our food most of all that I find the attitudes of
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