Circular Economy

[aesam]

In our household, items such as clothes and toys would have multiple lives before being thrown out, and leftover food would be transformed into tomorrow’s lunch. In other words, my mother was an early advocate of the circular economy, in which materials and products have multiple iterations, and the waste of one process loops back and becomes the

Comments

[ertai]

I find it amazing how people throw out so much food. I also think nuclear power should definitely be more heavily used.

I'll probably sound like an old person, but it seems that the younger generation loves to talk about being environmental and socially conscious but loves single serving products (k-cups, meal boxes, etc) and upgrading very expensive (cost, material and money) products like phones.

[aesam]

I agree, Henry. What would you suggest we could do about the hedonistic youth of present day?

[ertai]

I wouldn't necessarily say (more or less) hedonistic. It's probably a mixture of cheap disposal crap (cheaper to make and dispose of than reuse) and the consumer culture that you spoke about.

"Instilling values" takes too long so if you want to make meaningful short term fixes, you'd need to add regulations which I'm honestly not a huge fan of.

I'm a more of fan of shrinking the population and using more reusable resources, but that's much more difficult.

So no good or easy solution, hence the problem =)