a name given to anyone partaking in unneccesary consumerism, particularly the kind that promotes single use packaging that has no secondary purpose and must be relegated to landfill or toxic incineration for disposal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The UN Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter in every square mile of ocean, and a swirling vortex of trash twice the size of Texas has spawned in the North Pacific.

Plastic bags, once icons of customer convenience, cost more than 1.6 billion barrels of oil per year and leave the environment to foot the bill. Each year the world produces 500 billion bags, and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the wildlife that eat them.

from http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/05/is-there-a-natu.html

 

 

 

NO NEED CAMPAIGN PHILOSOPHY

What you don't throw away, you don't need to buy again.

Reducing Use is the FIRST step in the plan to save our planet.

Reuse what you Did buy, which also means only buy things you can re-use.

Recycle what you have re-used so lovingly and often that you need to get a new one. If you can't patch it or fix it then ok, but at least try first. Be creative.

 

Plastic Never Dies

Once, in the 70's a prolific image was a Native American Elder with a tear streaming down his face as he overlooked littered highways and landfills with smokestacks perched atop. Makes sense, right? A national US advertising campaign to promote environmental awareness and reduce the littering sounds like a great idea. This was over 30 years ago.

What happened?

People all got their recycling boxes and some cities pick up recycling, but not much attention got paid to the industrial sector who found numerous ways to actually increase the amount of waste by selling more products to the consumer. Packaging waste is pretty terrible, but that's just a wrapper, right?

We now have a continent made of tiny plastic chips floating in the middle of the pacific ocean. It has been named the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The plastic and garbage will never break down, but will instead break up, floating along in a plastic soup that gets more and more like wheatpaste as time goes on but it will never dissolve. It clogs, it poisons, it blocks light.

Every year an estimated 60 Million bottles become trash.
Then start counting the number of plastic diapers
  - Yes, we all used them sometimes too -
and packaging containers, small batteries, lead and
cadmium filled pc boards in all those TV's and clock radio's.

noneed

IS a national movement to promote thoughtful consumerism

Could be described as an economic self destruct sequence. When people make less stuff then the whole world benefits, they reduce stress and better reasoning can better influence national and Global decisionmaking. Ahh poetry of the prosaic.

Look, the point is, that we have been trained to toss. Bright enthusiastic people help us 'learn' how to get the latest convenience item through television and media. Old Story.

New Story:

You have things in your home you can use more and or again. These things, if treated with care, will last a while.

Things that recycle well:

Water

Steel

glass

 

So, So Recyclables

chemicals

a few plastics

orange soda

 

Things that recycle but actually make things worse

most chemicals

many plastics

nuclear waste

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