And we consume so much of it all the time, in the form of take-away boxes, water bottles, plastic bags, straws, and more.
All this plastic is being disposed of, when it should actually be recycled. Some of our waste is recycled locally, and some are treated by overseas plants.
However, some of our waste is sent overseas to be disposed of.
However, where is our trash going, and who is getting it?
Some waste, such as e-waste, is expensive to treat, and is thus shipped overseas to be dumped there. What is with all the dumping?
We work so hard to extract Mother Nature’s resources, and we sculpt it in factories and save up money to buy them in the form of products - and they all end up unwanted in the trash.
This will be obsolete in 2 years.
Is there any wonder our consumption is unsustainable, when the whole world is crying out for more and more new things?
We currently function as a river economy.
Resources get harvested, shaped, sold, and thrown away in a linear process. However, we should switch to a lake economy, where waste becomes a resource.
For example, this means that we should strive to restructure our economy into one in which the plastic making up chargers of old cellphones that we throw away can be recycled and used to construct plastic parts of the latest cellphone models.
This can only happen if we start pressuring businesses to begin producing sustainable stuff.
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