Recycle Tips and Thoughts

Recycle efforts are alive and well in every state, county and township. They are available on all levels and most major cities and even the smallest of townships have some form of this service available. As we look at all the Green Planet initiatives that we can consider the pollution from our own garbage, at times, takes a back seat. But consider the following; every pound of waste that cannot be converted to energy or some other useful form must go somewhere.

If waste is left to Mother Nature to deal with she will. This is where nature gets even and quite harmfully to the human race. If our personal waste or garbage goes to a landfill and is not properly sorted for recycling efforts then it will sit in our soil. So, you ask, what’s wrong with that? Where do we get our drinking water from? I’ll wait. Yes, mother nature she loves to see us recycle. We are, in some cases, poisoning our own water reserves. Under ground is like a maze of freeways. The freeways underground are rivers of water that come from rainfall in the mountains and are forming up in our cities and then processed into your homes and business locations.

So, if practice just the basics of recycling we not only preserve our vanishing lands but we also keep our water ways much easier to manage and thus safer to drink for everyone. Countries go through learning curves or cycles in their maturation from Third World status to fully industrialized. The challenges during this period of evolution for a country (China as an example) are the lack of proper government oversight to their infrastructure surrounding pollution. They have such a large population that production is the number one focus and not the byproduct of waste management.

Their rivers, China is not alone here, are heavily polluted now and their people have few choices where to drink. Think about the cycle of life. People eat fish, chicken, vegetables and beef right? So, if the animals and vegetables are consuming contaminated water and minerals in the soil then guess who consumes it last?

Our bodies are going through massive change over time. We have a wonderful system of integrated organs that adapt to environmental change over time. Poison is not one that we adapt to well. Poison leads to toxic conditions inside our bodies and lay dormant for years. Once found, they are difficult to extract in the form of inflammation and worst case cancer.

So recycling to manage our landfills and waste is very important if not critical to expose the lowest lever of the eco-chain to the wonders of how to manage this. Every home should have a three container trash can in their kitchen. This should feed a larger container that eventually goes out for pick up. The chambers should be divided into recycle zones like paper, glass and normal waste (non recycled goods).

By doing this we would, in effect, cut back 2/3’rds of the total weekly waste of each home. Two of the chambers would never see a landfill! Can we do this? Of course we can. It’s up to everyone reading this note today.