Trash
My neighborhood cleaned up their trash pile What do you do about your trash? Did that question make you pause for a minute? Is trash something that you think about on a regular basis? Or maybe you pride yourself for recycling? Or compost-- what a great option! But some places the "options" are a little more complicated. I've probably complained about the trash-covered beaches here in the past, but maybe the real problem has been less than clear. See, we have no landfill here. Between the steep mountains and private property, they've never found a good location for a landfill. We also have a fairly large amount of imported goods. And since buying in bulk requires having a larger amount of money at a time, many people buy in single-serving packages that that average 30 cents apiece. And you can imagine the plastic and metal involved in the packaging for all of that. Then there's the organic waste. Some of it, goats and chickens will eat. But not everyone has goats o...