Response to Derrick Jensen Excerpt - KJ

"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." - Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen wrote this article on awareness of per-capita municipal waste production. there are all sorts of things we can do to reduce our waste. we can recycle everything, use cloth bags for shopping and use your clothes over and over again. we can try to make the government recycle and not produce so much waste. The big problem is that our waste is only 3% of all waste. if we reduce our waste to 0% we still have a ton of waste.


The real problem is not our waste its all the waste coming from factories and companies. the companies create waste when making their products. Farms create waste from their animals. every money making company makes more waste than the average human. we need to try and switch companies to use more "green" products. the point is we need to worry about company waste not our waste.

KJ