Hello ! Happy New Year!
What about this to contribute to your list of New Year's Resolutions? I was convinced that I might pass on the contents of the e-mail below which might interest you and came from a reader, who wrote about how he went to a landfill for the first time in his life, in 2011. It was quite a cathartic experience for him:
The pleasant news is, it only took one quick trip to the landfill, for me to come to my senses and make changes about the way In which I do things and about the way In which I think.If we aren’t thinking worldwide when talking about waste, and what we are leaving behind, we aren’t being smart. Grab some youngsters, or some forty-somethings and take yourself on a field expedition that may, do for you what it probably did for me ; make the changes that are necessary for me to see what the grim reality of our situation is and change the way In which I do things.
I suspect that there has to be many individuals who, like him, have busy lives, and before 2011, never gave waste disposal a lot of thought. Naturally I am really not recommending that you climb over a fence to go to a landfill. Most big and well run landfills presently supply a resource centre where college youngsters are educated about waste control and recycling during college trips, and a short telephone call to the landfill office before you leave should ensure you can select a timet when the facility will be open. Such facilities are customarily found at an easy to visit position on the landfill where there's also a landfill viewing point and the staff will often be available to reply to any questions you will have.
Whether or not the landfill does or doesn't have a visitor resource centre, in my previous experience the staff, (if given satisfactory notice) will probably be pleased to meet any local resident and show them around their landfill for 30 minutes. In reality as residents we will do a lot to help our landfill operators to maintain the best standards by doing this. Keeping a landfill clean is difficult work, it is way more rewarding if those doing it also feel the community cares about their landfill, instead of only ever just moaning when for some reason things go badly.
Hence how's that for a New Year's Resolution? Make that trip to a landfill! It could be quite an "eye opener" just as it was for our reader. Who knows, you may even come back impressed if areas of the landfill have been well revived.
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