So the whole world is trying to go green right now and I support the 'valiant' effort their giving, but not really. It seems that we can only ever focus on one environmental issue at a time doesn't it? The 90's were all about recycling and re-using, in my opinion at least. Now that seems to have fallen to the background, it's still there but not as predominate as before. Ever since Al Gore's movie all we worry about is our emissions and carbon footprint; in no way am I slagging off the importance of our ozone and how many nasties we dish out. I am getting a little ticked that a few other environmental issues have fallen behind, like saving the Amazon, you know, trees that turn CO2 into oxygen. That's just a little important for everything that lives...The point I'm trying to make is that humans seem to be one trick ponies and every new generation that takes office can only focus on one-little-thing-at-a-time. Our green progress has become painfully slow and has gone in reverse more than once. I say, when an issue comes at hand we accept it, we address it and most importantly we do not forget it until solved. So... whatever happened to recycling?
In a strict sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material, for example used office paper to more office paper, or used foamed polystyrene to more polystyrene. However, this is often difficult or too expensive (compared with producing the same product from raw materials or other sources.) I'm going to speak about the issue of plastic bags but as you know there are many other items that have become a non-sustainable product. Hopefully this will raise some questions and can get you thinking about all of the unnecessary packaging the world uses.
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