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My mom's motto was "live below your means." It meant to pay cash, stay out of debt, and think about something before purchasing. Tim and I follow that path quite happily. We don't have everything they sell in Walmart, like the rest of America, but we have financial freedom.
To me, a lot of the problem could be solved if a truly effective method of dealing with trash were invented. Recycling is cute, and it makes the recycler feel better, but in reality, most of that ends up trashed anyway. Recycled paper seems to be the most obvious product of recycling, but what about everything else?
Plastics can't be recycled into new food containers. Why not? Why on earth isn't anyone inventing a process that purifies the used plastics so that it can be recycled? Tim goes through enough milk jugs in a week to keep them in business!
HOWEVER.... I'm still angry that they made my Aquafina bottles with 50% less plastic, and now the bottle squishes in your hand when you unscrew the cap.
@thiebald, please ask a mod to add the "serious" header to this thread.
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