Eliminate waste and we fix much of what's plaguing us
By Edward Humes / For the Los Angeles Times
What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental dilemma are symptoms of just one malady and its something we actually can fix?
Thats right, the planet is fighting a single archvillain: waste.
Americans live in the most wasteful civilization in history. This goes way beyond what we roll to the curb each week. Its rooted in what we eat and drink and how we cook. Its the main thing you pay for in your utility bills and at the gas pump. Waste is so deeply embedded in our economy, products and daily lives that its hard to see clearly, or to see at all.
Thinking of seemingly unsolvable Earth-destroying crises as byproducts of waste is powerful and hopeful. Theres no partisan divide where one side says, Yay waste! Instead there are ordinary blue state and red state people at work in our neighborhoods right now, showing us how to tackle waste and the catastrophes it drives; and saving, even making money while doing it.
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Bo Zarts
(25,403 posts)"Waste not, want not."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Build waste remediation costs into pricing.
Consume less.
Repair, re-purpose, re-use, recycle.
Irish_Dem
(47,390 posts)Every box, bag, envelope, rubber band that came into the house.
All were reused.
Food waste went in the garden.
Clothes were passed down to other family members or remade into household items.