05-05-2014, 12:45 PM
Just to think about it, each time that each & every one of us diverts a piece that COULD be recycled (mixed, cardboard, metal, even shipping packing is taken at Kens & at many of the shipping places, inc. in Pahoa) equals over 150,00 of those pieces...add the tourists... and you are looking at over 200,000 pieces going into our overburdened dumps at Hilo & Kona..
That is what is amounts to every time each of us thinks it is not worth our effort for this one piece... Staggering? yes! but it is the reality...it is either worth each of our efforts, or we will have to figure another way (which will surely cost much more!)
The amazing thing is how fast we CAN re-evaluate our efforts, things like the waste reduction & reuse efforts during WWII, or high cost, most of us figure out how to do it. Too bad we don't until something as drastic as war or high cost!
That is what is amounts to every time each of us thinks it is not worth our effort for this one piece... Staggering? yes! but it is the reality...it is either worth each of our efforts, or we will have to figure another way (which will surely cost much more!)
The amazing thing is how fast we CAN re-evaluate our efforts, things like the waste reduction & reuse efforts during WWII, or high cost, most of us figure out how to do it. Too bad we don't until something as drastic as war or high cost!