"Or let’s talk waste. In 2005, per-capita municipal waste production (basically everything that’s put out at the curb) in the U.S. was about 1,660 pounds. Let’s say you’re a die-hard simple-living activist, and you reduce this to zero. You recycle everything. You bring cloth bags shopping. You fix your toaster. Your toes poke out of old tennis shoes. You’re not done yet, though. Since municipal waste includes not just residential waste, but also waste from government offices and businesses, you march to those offices, waste reduction pamphlets in hand, and convince them to cut down on their waste enough to eliminate your share of it. Uh, I’ve got some bad news. Municipal waste accounts for only 3 percent of total waste production in the United States." - D. Jensen
Alrighty then, special thanks to Derrick Jensen for the source to my response. I would like to say that in my opinion it is considered over doing it when you use absolutely no electricity at all, and your toes are poking out of your shoes? that's not helping the environment, that is just bad hygiene and obsessive compulsive disorder. Trust me I should know, I have obsessive compulsive disorder and Turret syndrome.
People who have to go that far in reduce waste are really in all honesty over doing it, seriously no refrigerator? that's being radical.
I'm not saying that it's okay to purposely waste things, but some people go over board with it. Reducing some of the waste that we... waste, probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
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