No Such Thing As 'Away'

I have some heinously wasteful neighbors in my community. HEAPS of garbage on the curb each week. Prepackaged everything. Plastic bags inside plastic bags. Rotten food stinking up the block. Waste. Piles of Waste. Cardboard boxes left intact and full of junk (the trash company does not recycle intact cardboard - we are, and should be, required to flatten all cardboard for it to be recycled). Our local trash company doesn't charge per bag, so you can put out almost anything for the almost $500/yr. that we pay the garbage service. I see the piles that they put out each week and then I look at our little area of curb:  one not-even-full bag and a paper sack or two of recyclables. With very few exceptions, that is the garbage.

'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' isn't a cliche or catch-phrase, it's what we really have to do. Look at our oceans - that's where everything goes 'away' - all trash flows to the oceans. In the near future, I will refer to various sources that prove this. What happens in heavy rains and floods? Trash get rushed to the oceans and, no matter where you live, you may be contributing to that. Please don't. There are literally islands of trash, but that's for another day...

Saving the Earth starts with saving your neighborhood. There will be no politics here - I am sick to death of people using politics to separate us. We are ONE PEOPLE, sharing this ONE EARTH. We need to be one team when it comes to clean air, water, and soil.

This blog is here to share ideas for taking action in your own life, saving money, and seeing the changes that others have made to make their little corner of the world a better, cleaner, more creative space. No matter how small your contribution, you need to know that it matters. Action means more than words. Saying you 'care' or saying 'someone should do something' is like handing the reins of your life to someone else, and you need to be careful who you pass those reins to -  they just might end up in the hands of my neighbors, and that would be one frightened horse.