Comments on: Our Disposable Society

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:48:01 +0000

Thanks for putting this information out there. The reason that companies continue to make this garbage (and that’s what it is because that’s where it ends up) is because people continue to buy it. As long as their is money to be made, companies will continue to do what they are doing.

Its the WalMart philosophy of buying cheap, buying more and replacing often that has gotten us into this, and until more people like you and I get the word out, nothing will change.

Alter the Eco and keep up the good fight,

Adam

By: Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:22 +0000

Beware of government recycling programs who’s purpose, among other things, is to make people “feel better” about being green.

My peeve is the City of Ottawa.

It is true that your blue box is for plastic, metal and glass, but among the list of items they don’t take are “All plastic bags”. (that comes right off the City of Ottawa website) Why don’t they take plastic bags such as those ones you get from the grocery store? Because they’re too expensive to recycle. But … taxpayers can feel great about themselves as they bring them home by the dozens and throw them in the Blue Box, only to have someone take them out and throw them in the garbage.

By: Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:40:23 +0000

Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..

Matt Hanson

By: Joe Boughner

Joe Boughner — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:17:02 +0000

I fully agree with you but the wee little optimist in me sees signs that we are finally getting the message. ‘Green’ products are much more readily available and people are (slowly, admittedly) realizing that *GASP* actions do have consequences.

I hope that, in the next few years, we are going to see companies like those that make disposable toilet brushes marginalized.

We were bred for decades to believe that convenience trumped all else. Slowly buy surely, the message is getting out and we’re changing our habits. I hope.

Do the ad bag people abide by “No Flyers” signs, by the way?