3:54 AM
April 3, 09

"What really gets to me (and, I’m sure, a lot of other city dwellers) are the decibel levels involved in refuse collection. Waste-hauling trucks are oversized, energy-intensive vehicle/machine combos that are so generally noisy, it is unbelievable. Their operations are enough to wake you up in the morning, drown out phone calls, totally disrupt concentration and amplify any headache."
--Anthony Zolezzi
Sustainability Expert

Statistics tell us that the average American is responsible for generating 4.39 pounds of trash per day, only about a tenth of which gets recycled, that the country as a whole throws away enough stuff to fill 63,00 garbage trucks daily, and that about a third of this mess consists of packaging.

http://www.anthonyzolezzi.com/blog_april2008.htm


In the last month, I have become acutely aware of what I am throwing
away and where I am throwing it away.

Here at the ENCHANTED GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
in San Diego, we have two large recycling bins, and three large
black bins--that means to the landfill.

I would love to see a film tracing a piece of trash and recycled
material from making it to disposal.

I love that film I once saw about this aboriginal man in
Australia or Aftica who found a Coke Bottle that feel from
an airplane. He thought it was a gift from God.
He went on a pilgrimage to find out who this gift belonged
to. I would like to remember what that film was called.

We are about to have a 45% cutback in water use here in San
Diego in the amount of water we can use. I would like
to see laws that effect the amount of stuff we can throw away
without returning it to the source that we bought it from.

One Bowl, one spoon, one fork per person.
That would certainly save our household a lot of
water use in our auto dish washer.

Plastic bottles?

Ouch!

I saw this article recently:
Plastic bottles appear to be implicated in breast cancer
in women.

RELATED PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS & LINKS:

Melissa McGinnis helps Launch
Recycling Project:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1381767


Anthony Zolezzi, Sustainability Expert:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598


Plastic in the oceans:
http://greenopolis.com/category/popular-tags/hollywood-goes-green


Mischief in the Garden:
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=1365942





 

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