Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Zero Waste

I'm encouraged by this community's profound effort to avoid filling landfills. At all.

Elderly Turn Town into Zero Waste Community
Japan's rapidly aging population is leading the way in one town to create a zero-waste community, recycling everything, including
valuable gold from old phones. In this town there is no trash collection and no landfill, just people sorting their own trash
into 34 categories and dropping it off at the local recycling facility.
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Re: Reduce, reuse

ysabetwordsmith

August 20 2009, 18:25:27 UTC 11 years ago

There isn't a singular solution to the problems we face, but not throwing away things that could be recycled is a good start. Waste reduction is another important aspect. (I have a Gaiatribe post on this topic today.)

>>I'd bet those practices are far more "alien" to SF than... aliens, with so many stories about using up the earth and throwing it away like used TP as (WASP) man reaches for his grand delusional place among the stars -- believing as he does in astrology and celestial mythology.<<

Oh yes. Many things that foreign humans do are more alien than most SF aliens.

However, writers who travel and/or read widely through other cultures can come up with some very far-out ideas. Alan Dean Foster is a good example. Some of haikujaguar's aliens do NOT think like humans. My Waterjewel characters darn near won't throw anything away, unless they have to, because in the beginning the tribe had very little in the way resources; and that conserve-resources habit stuck even though they have an abundance later.

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Re: Reduce, reuse

ysabetwordsmith

August 21 2009, 18:26:07 UTC 11 years ago

I've been intrigued by the rise of the "eat local" movement which minimizes the transport cost of foods, along with a revival of organic gardening.