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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
Well, some rubbish obviously gets recycled, Hiero  . What is your alternative to landfills?
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Why, frolicking naked in the wildnerness, picking berries and hunting deer of course
What else
is there? [img]smile.gif[/img]
Seriously though. The alternative to landfills is changing our 'throwaway' culture. I think there needs to be a fundamental shift in our 'consumer' society's use-once-and-abandone philosophy. Instead of having supermarket shelves full of individually-packaged products whose packages are destined for the landfill after they have been used, simply sell durable, re-usable containers and let customers 'refill' at their leisure. This would be plausible for many different landfill-fodder products. Washing powder, soap, milk, bread, you name it, even meat and vegetables (hell, it's how they did it in the old days. Go to market with your basket, pick up your goods, take em home). Just little changes in general social lifestyle to minimize all the decadent waste that goes on these days.
Right now I think 'The West' has convenience-disease. And I don't think I'm being excessively prophetic when I say this illness is going to get really terminal in the next decade or two.
[ 05-18-2004, 06:42 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]