Awesome blog on Recycling Eli. That mural using bottle tops is just stunning! We have so many ugly walls all over the city and this would be a great project! It's so sad when recycling projects fail as happened with our paper & plastic collection, so now we have to go to the refuse dump where there are different areas for all kinds of recyclable stuff.
I love this phrase of yours:
Because the key is to apply the 3 Rs, Reduce, reuse and recycle, not just one.
It's funny how you say that you now think twice about buying stuff; our Covid lockdown taught me a lesson or two, as we avoided going to the store so I often would look in my pantry and find something I could use to replace whatever was required in cooking for example, and so learned that we can improvise and not just run to the store!
We started shopping online during lockdown, and it really is great, as there's no temptation to pick up unnecessary snacks and so forth!
Thank you, Lizzie
Here, taking waste for recycling is a real act of will because there is no fixed place to take it to. We have to wait for the municipality to organize collection days and keep an eye out for them. Sometimes so much time passes between collection days that you end up having to throw some things in the normal rubbish bin.
And yes, shopping is an issue. The pandemic helped to change consumption patterns. But above all, here, the crisis that happened before where there was a shortage of everything taught us that much of what we buy we don't need. And to rethink the use we give to many things.
And I agree, shopping online helps. Every time we go to the shop, the temptation to take something just because it caught our eye or provokes us is big. Thank you for stopping by!😊🪴