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Recycling
Recycling Recycling is not a new concept. It's just one that got put aside in affluent, industrial countries. The addage "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" is sometimes called a Vermont-ism, but neither of my parents (both born at the turn of the 20th century) were from Vermon and they both were very frugal. We recycled anything that was recycelable. One of my childrens' most memorable Christmases was the year after my parents retired and we spent Christmas with them. My parents gave the children hand crafted items and wrapped them in the comic pages from newspapers being saved for other recycling projects or to be passed to another neighbor who didn't subscribe to the newspaper. To this day they may not be able to tell you what the presents were, but they remember thinking how perfectly fabulous it was to have them wrapped in "the funnies". A few months ago my attention was drawn to hand bags made from newspapers in the Phillipines. http://www.dyariobags.com/store/Default.asp
This reminded me of the small trash cans we used to decorate back in the 60's. We'd take colorful magazine pages, square them up, roll them corner to corner and glue them around a large juice can. Shopping bags made from plastic bags in Ghana
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ghanaian-fashion-accessory-is-plastic-fa... Small gifts made from a yarn spun from plast bags in the impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3231/context/archive And many sites encouraging individuals to crochet their plastic grocery bags into permanent totes to take with them to the grocery store and cut down on the amount of plastic going into our landfills. http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/Plastic%20Bag%20tote.html
http://www.needlepointers.com/ShowArticles.aspx?NavID=593
http://www.ccthita-swan.org/pdf/Crocheting_bags.pdf Or you can crochet sun bonnets, slippers, coin purses. . . Every time I do a search to get more ideas, different sites come up. I've started cutting all my plastic bags- grocery, bread, potato, and those thin produce bags- into strips and winding them into balls. It doesn't take much time to cut and wind, and they take up much less storage room while I'm collecting them. If you belong to a group or a club, you could encourage everyone to make recycled items and have an auction for a charity. What do you have that can be recycled? Do you make jewelry, and maybe have an old necklace or bracelet that is outdated and you don't wear it any longer? Can you take it apart and use parts of it to make new items? Paper has two sides as someone else pointed out. If you get a lot of junk mail that has one blank side you can cut the pages into strips for to-do notes or shopping lists instead of using those handy post-it-notes. One person's contribution may not make a big difference, but that doesn't mean one person shouldn't recycle. Your neighbors and friends will get caught up in the idea and either recycle their plastic and paper, or give it to you to be recycled.
What can you think of to lessen the burden on our landfills?
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Contributor's Note
This article was written from my experience and from the various sites listed. I think we all need to do something about our overburdened landfills. One person may not be able to do a lot, but if NOBODY does anything we're in trouble
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