Recycling

Do you use a basin in your sink in which you wash up? Sounds silly but if you fill a basin (a plastic tub that fits neatly) you can wash everything, rinse into another (if you are lucky to have two sinks) and leave your washed up items to drain. Why I hear you say would I bother? The water you now have in the two basins is grey water, you can simply walk outside and pour it onto your water hungry plants, not to mention all the added advantages of trace element chemicals in environmentally friendly detergents (too boring and numerous to, well bore you with). You can even go all the way you green little thing you and have a diverter set up in your sink to collect said green motion lotion for your garden and send it to a tank with pump and water your yard to your heart's content, enjoying all the looks you get from your water level restricted neighbours as they pass by.

How much water do you think just this simple idea could save? Heaps and if you seek fanciful statistics and diagrams from this article think again, you don't really care about that rubbish do you? How many articles have you read about environmentally friendly practices in residential and industrial applications; yeah right.

We all collectively shake our heads in disgust when we hear news reports on all sorts of things we also do but just have not been caught doing, admit it: drink driving, speeding, pinching something small, taking a sickie, the list is endless and we all damn well know it truth be told. I did not inhale; good grief.

Why is the concept of recycling so easy to explain, understand and talk about and yet so hard for us to do? None of us want to live in a world knee deep in refuse of a non-biodegradable nature do we? Answer me this, what level of guilt do you sense when you toss aluminium soft drink cans in the garbage, think about it?

This is no harder than changing any other aspect of your daily life, you have to want to do it, sounds easy but believe me it is like the difference between looking at Mt Everest and being filled with awe and actually going through the year long process of arranging to climb the useless lump of rock, well it is.

I am not presuming to write down a million ways in which all of us can recycle, you are not that stupid surely, what I am asking is you have a think about why you do not do it frequently enough? What is stopping you from being more efficient in this?

If your answer is honest, it may cause you concern when you think about the potential you have to add to the global impact you and your 6 billion mates are doing, I mean it may be as profound an answer as "um, I dunno"!

Do you use a basin in your sink in which you wash up? Sounds silly but if you fill a basin (a plastic tub that fits neatly) you can wash everything, rinse into another (if you are lucky to have two sinks) and leave your washed up items to drain. Why I hear you say would I bother? The water you now have in the two basins is grey water, you can simply walk outside and pour it onto your water hungry plants, not to mention all the added advantages of trace element chemicals in environmentally friendly detergents (too boring and numerous to, well bore you with). You can even go all the way you green little thing you and have a diverter set up in your sink to collect said green motion lotion for your garden and send it to a tank with pump and water your yard to your heart's content, enjoying all the looks you get from your water level restricted neighbours as they pass by.

How much water do you think just this simple idea could save? Heaps and if you seek fanciful statistics and diagrams from this article think again, you don't really care about that rubbish do you? How many articles have you read about environmentally friendly practices in residential and industrial applications; yeah right..

We all collectively shake our heads in disgust when we hear news reports on all sorts of things we also do but just have not been caught doing, admit it: drink driving, speeding, pinching something small, taking a sickie, the list is endless and we all damn well know it truth be told. I did not inhale; good grief.

Why is the concept of recycling so easy to explain, understand and talk about and yet so hard for us to do? None of us want to live in a world knee deep in refuse of a non-biodegradable nature do we? Answer me this, what level of guilt do you sense when you toss aluminium soft drink cans in the garbage, think about it?

This is no harder than changing any other aspect of your daily life, you have to want to do it, sounds easy but believe me it is like the difference between looking at Mt Everest and being filled with awe and actually going through the year long process of arranging to climb the useless lump of rock, well it is.

I am not presuming to write down a million ways in which all of us can recycle, you are not that stupid surely, what I am asking is you have a think about why you do not do it frequently enough? What is stopping you from being more efficient in this?

If your answer is honest, it may cause you concern when you think about the potential you have to add to the global impact you and your 6 billion mates are doing, I mean it may be as profound an answer as "um, I dunno"!