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Started 10 months ago by Jude2004
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jbeany
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I have been trying harder since I've got more energy after my kidney and pancreas transplant 2 years ago. (See, I REALLY recycle!) I think we need more ways to "encourage" recycling, the same way we "discouraged" highway littering by putting bottle deposits on pop and beer bottles. Once it started to make a significant financial impact, people started recycling those fast enough. There's a local area (not mine, unfortunately) that gives you credit for every full recycle bin - and charges by weight for anything that isn't in a recycle bin. Now that's an incentive! You work at it, you could have free trash removal.

I was loading my recycling into my car in front of a non-environmentally aware neighbor, who wondered why I bothered when the recycle center is 45 minutes away and the dumpster is next to the building. I'm thinking of putting my flippant response on a T-shirt.
"I don't recycle to save the planet. I just like feeling morally superior."

Whatever gets the job done!

Posted 10 months ago #
Jackthetiger
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I did not look at this thread because I don't watch much TV. We don't have the programs you are referring to, but I am passionate about this subject matter.

I find it hard to cope with people like Bandicoot's friend who can only see the impact on themselves. We are (FINALLY) about to get a carbon tax to price dirtier industries higher and encourage investment in greener industries. It will result in a modest increase in the cost of living, but there are too many people who claim that they can't afford it and that it will make no difference. This is in a country where 86% of people believe in man made climate change! I just think that we have to do it now or future generations will pay a much higher price. My mum has recently invested in whole house solar with a grid exchange. She is 77 years old and it will take many years to recoup the costs in savings. She was willing to do it because she could afford to make the contribution.

Hats off to all of you who have to work so hard to recycle. We have a recycling bin that is three times the size of our rubbish bin and it is collected weekly.

Posted 10 months ago #
candy
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LOL @jbeany "(See, I REALLY recycle!)"

It is quite interesting to see that so many of us have chosen not to have children. It is the same for me, for many reasons, but one main reason is that I feel that we are already quite enough people on this planet. Globally, the population needs to be reduced, not increased (that is, in the long term, I'm of course not talking about getting rid of people that are already here), and we need to work towards giving everyone on the planet a decent quality of life instead of abundance for a few and poverty for the rest.

I think that if we don't make the effort to change things NOW, we don't have 50 years as bandicoot's friend talks about, but perhaps 20 years or less before the situation goes completely out of hand. I do my best, but I could do more.

Posted 10 months ago #
Netleigh
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Candy,
I do have children, only one as it turned out, though we'd agreed BC to have no more than two as that is replacement not increase. In a great many cultures and religions it's the norm to have large families and I don't see them taking notice of the impact this has on consumption, more head in the sand thinking. Admittedly China's one child policy was a step in the right direction but not achieved by willing consensus within the population.
But as to how to influence the world to change this attitude is a huge problem, individual action and influence and political lobbying only go so far!

I really feel for bandicoot where her houseguest's 'don't care attitude' is messing up a friendship, as well as his cluttering her place up.

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