It is really that simple!

Part of being a naturist is being aware of your surroundings, respecting them and improving them. Being aware and just being observant brings with it revelations and disappointments. My disappointments lately have been seeing the sheer waste and disrespect people in general have for the environment. I know we have to recycle and reuse but at the same time as consumers do we have to put up with the mountains of packaging that suppliers throw at us? You go to Costco and look at the over packaging and you will be shocked, or at least I hope you will be. A 2 inch square memory card for your camera comes in an 8 by 12 inch plastic package lined with paper and sealed with metal studs. A Pizza at Loblaws is vacuum sealed on a disc of cardboard in a cardboard box, the instructions for cooking and a photograph is on the box nd would fit on the cardboard disc.
At what point do we leave the packaging with the store or how do we stop them from trying to put the onus on us to recycle what they throw at us.
What got me thinking about this was the borage of newspaper articles and ads that tell us it is up to us to do OUR part, I agree but is this not one of those things that the big picture is being missed in exchange for the little one.The list is endless, watch the mountians of chipped wood get burried as they clear for a highway or estate while at the same time truckloads of new pulp wood drive on that same highway. Lean on your cart at Farmboy and watch the stock person sort the fruit and vegetables. The discard bin is full of almost perfect produce and at the same time the cost of the fruit and vegetables go up and homeless people can't get enough to eat. Keep an eye on all the shoppers that toss pennies on the ground or in the garbage simply because they feel they are worthless. I could feed a child in Dufar from the number of pennies I see around my College. We are a society that wastes without thought. North Americans think nothing of going to a chain restaurant and accepting a plate with portions that would feed an entire family and not feel bad when we send half it back and rub our stomach while retorting " Whew my eyes were bigger than my stomach" I have no comprehension of the statistics that may exist but imagine the number of restaurants across Canada and the US and the number of customers that pass through them in an average evening and then imagine that each customer returns a pound of fries, meat, pasta, bread that can't be resold or whatever it was they had too much of. It makes me sick to think of the millions of pounds of food that is nothing more that a symbol of our gluttony and greed going in a land fill site. And we can change it all, can't we.