Consumer Responsibility
REDUCE ...Extended Producer Responsibility ...ultimately the responsibility must start here.. How products are made and how products are packaged.
Consumer Responsibility ...purchase products that can be re-used and products that have none to little consequences on the environment. When purchasing products we have consideration for the environment, ourselves and our children.
RE-USE - Purchase products that can be re-used and make sure we either give away the things we no longer want or recycle them.
RECYCLE –Make sure we recycle all plastics, paper, wood, glass or metal ...think twice, about what we throw out as garbage ... not hard to do it, just takes some thought and discipline.
Municipality Responsibility
RECOVERY - where Municipal Recycle and Community Recycle Depot programs and facilities in place capture, useful materials from the waste stream; bail it , then send to manufactures for re-processing or is sent to a Waste to Energy plant to be made into energy.
RESIDUAL -this is the garbage that simply cannot be recycled or put into energy and become a maximum of 3% of our garbage dump or landfill.
GARBAGE IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY …WHY is throwing garbage into a dumpster still FREE? Retail grocery stores, school boards, industry and households ...we are all doing it ...when much of our garbage is recyclable and worth money.
WASTE TO ENERGY ...Once we believe Waste to Energy is the answer for our garbage problems ...we have an even better reason to not care about what or if we recycle.
FACT: Waste to Energy conserves 1 barrel of oil for every ton of garbage we burn - recycling conserves 4 barrels of oil for every ton of garbage we recycle. One to three ratio ...
….RECYCLING IS BETTER AND BEST!
We must all GROW A SPINE when it comes to our waste and TAKE CHARGE of our hyper-consumerism behaviours for the sake of our children’s planet.
AGGRESSIVE ORGANICS programs are a must!
PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NUMBER ONE ...and a design for the environment is pertinent!
