Quote:No doubt not generating the stuff in the first place is the most efficient and direct solution and in that spirit I never go to fast food restaurants nor buy any newspapers or magazines or new books, nor do I have any kids.
Thats an excellent philosophy. Its difficult however to avoid many types of packaging.
The fact is we have garbage and we should consider it a resource same as any other raw material. It just needs processing and the consumer needs to pay for that.
Here I can purchase green waste compost enhanced topsoil manufactured from municipal green waste and clay fill. I'd like to see more municipal energy production from combustible waste but this may be difficult in that the energy consumption of a small town is greater than the possible combustible waste supply. This means supplementing the generator with new raw material of some kind.
