I have to come onto forums like this to remind myself that other ppl do care about the environment and are trying to work with nature instead of against. For too many ppl, governements and local councils included, working with nature towards sustainability is too expensive or time consuming. Our society is too lazy to take positive action - instead they will blame others. In one of our neighbouring towns the council have tried to restict refuse collections and have spent alot of money on curb side collections for paper, glass, plastics, garden waste - including uncooked food, cardboard, and run a free of charge collection for larger items i.e refirgerators. I was most impressed. Until a friend of mine found rats in her garden because a neighbour who refuses to recycle has started burying her waste in the garden. So wonderful council who are really making an effort but flippin absent minded fools living there.
So until ppl like this are educated or put in landfills themselves I think we need to look at contingencies as much as the few realistic ones of us taking action.
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