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tonyes in Reflections • 10 months ago

Excellent reflection and one of the lessons to be learned from this publication is that many times, in the eagerness to have and have we fill ourselves with many things that sometimes we do not even need or that we buy and throw to one side.

The big companies use all possible means at their disposal to tell us what to buy, the quantity, the quality of what they sell and we buy and they get richer to deepen a cycle that repeats itself over and over again.

The really sad thing is that many or most of these things are taken from nature and we are not aware of the damage we are doing to it.

As a Geography teacher I admire and value writings like this.

Thank you for sharing.

Happy Tuesday.

Cheers and best regards.

10 months ago in Reflections by tonyes

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galenkp 10 months ago

There's a lot of talk about recycling, caring for the environment and not being wasteful...but there is little action to recycle, care for the environment and to conserve not waste. The corporations and countries are partly to blame, and so is everyone on the planet who desires more and more products and services and who seem never to be content. Humans truly are a plague upon the planet and there's little to nothing being done to change that.

Thanks for taking a read, I'm glad you found something of value in my post.

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tonyes 10 months ago

I totally agree with you.
Thanks to you for sharing such an important topic. Happy Tuesday. Cheers and best regards.

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thelowededwookie 10 months ago

I'm not entirely sure it's the corporations' fault but government regulations. At the same time I do think it's the fault of the corporations and not the government regulations.

From a corporate position it makes complete sense to recycle and reduce and conserve because it ultimately affects the bottom line. Companies like Apple are heavily into this mentality, going so far as to build entire systems to recycle their old machines into new ones.

On the flip side the corporation's responsibility is to their shareholders and most corporations will go for volume sales and race to the bottom. These corporations (think Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, etc) don't care so much about creating recycling systems with much of their gear going into landfills when they die within a year or two (average lifespan of a low end computer is two years - average of a Mac is 5).

Government regulations often stop proper recycling. Here in New Zealand we end up shipping most of our stuff to China for recycling because the government doesn't want to setup infrastructure here in New Zealand. However, we used to do a lot of recycling here in New Zealand because it used to be too expensive to send it anywhere else.

The government bowed to the corporations in the 90s and 2000s and so it flipped. Today New Zealand's recycling regulations are based on what China is willing to accept.

Here where I live, we used to recycle all plastics of 1,2,4,5,6,7 but now we only do 1,2,5,7. There's no infrastructure to recycle glass anymore and so we're not supposed to recycle coloured glass whereas before we had no problem doing so.

Once again, it comes down to regulations set by another country.

But if you got the corporations that want to recycle properly and the governments working together in order to setup infrastructure, then you'd get real far in fixing many of the problems caused by consumerism. At the moment though you've got governments preventing this from happening because of lobby groups that are willing to pay more to stop this from happening. It's crazy.

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