http://greengirlsglobal.com/blog/zero-waste-week-are-you-up-for-the-challenge Women from all over the world sharing their views, ideas and experiences on living a more sustainable life Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://greengirlsglobal.com/blog/zero-waste-week-are-you-up-for-the-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-23450 Paul Palmer (California) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:20:21 +0000 http://greengirlsglobal.com/blog/zero-waste-week-are-you-up-for-the-challenge#comment-23450 You display a video titled Neighbors From Hell all about pollution. Did you realize that that discusses a quintessential Zero Waste issue, namely the wasting of the commons-owned resource of clean air and quiet? You have taken the wrong step, in my opinion by tying ZW to your rubbish pile. That is barely a first baby step. Many environmentalists continue down the path of worrying about rubbish and dumps and never get on with the real work of Zero Waste which is redesigning both products and processes so that there is never any rubbish or garbage generated. So long as we focus on the ass end of the problem, we will never solve it. You cannot find new uses for all of society's trashy products purposely made to fall apart. You must change the reigning paradigm of production to avoid all discard. This is not even hard, once you put your mind to it. See my website for dozens of applications, at www.zerowasteinstitute.org. And if you get convinced, would you like to sell my book Getting To Zero Waste in England? Can't blame me for asking I hope. You display a video titled Neighbors From Hell all about pollution. Did you realize that that discusses a quintessential Zero Waste issue, namely the wasting of the commons-owned resource of clean air and quiet? You have taken the wrong step, in my opinion by tying ZW to your rubbish pile. That is barely a first baby step. Many environmentalists continue down the path of worrying about rubbish and dumps and never get on with the real work of Zero Waste which is redesigning both products and processes so that there is never any rubbish or garbage generated. So long as we focus on the ass end of the problem, we will never solve it. You cannot find new uses for all of society’s trashy products purposely made to fall apart. You must change the reigning paradigm of production to avoid all discard. This is not even hard, once you put your mind to it. See my website for dozens of applications, at http://www.zerowasteinstitute.org. And if you get convinced, would you like to sell my book Getting To Zero Waste in England? Can’t blame me for asking I hope.

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