Month: July 2017

The thirtieth:
Time to remember

Article published in August 2014

There were so many materials discovered by humans along the centuries. Countless were the artifacts, objects and packagings created with these materials. Now, in the 21st century, we live day by day with this human creation. We are greatly benefited from the comfort that it all brings.

We can buy ready-to-drink yogurt packed in plastics, we can comfortably use nail clippers made out of metal, scribble some notes in a paper pad and so on. This is all human invention, combining materials with specific uses.

But time goes by. Nail clippers start to rust and we do not want them anymore. The notes we wrote on the paper pad are already outdated. The yogurt has been drank… and its packaging becomes useless to us. We want to get rid of all of that. Then comes the magic word: trash !

How nice that someone has invented the garbage truck, that someone collects from our street the useless stuff and brings it all far away. But remember that the metal of the nail clippers, the plastics of the yogurt package and the paper from your pad are recyclable: they can be used again.

When you discard, think big: you are not getting rid of your garbage, but ensuring raw material for the products and packages that you will be consuming tomorrow.