The ‘age of the consumer’ dawned shortly after World War II. The depression was over; the war was won. Servicemen came back from overseas and began families. Happy times were here again and optimism reigned. Americans generated about 2.6 pounds of waste per person daily in 1960. By 2018, that had almost doubled to… Continue reading The Three R’s: Beyond Recycling in
Waste Management
Most people think of ‘recycling’ when they think of waste reduction; in reality, ‘reduce’ and ‘reuse’ are almost always better solutions to too much waste. But the idea of recycling caught on big time in the 1980’s and since then it has been ‘recycle, recycle, recycle’ instead of reduce, reuse, recycle. So what… Continue reading A Dummy’s Guide to the Circular Economy
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