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Letter: Goal: zero trash

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Staff

How inspiring it was to read recently about one couple who set a target of producing zero trash for an entire year. Amazingly, their one-year anniversary arrived and they only have a shoe box size of non-recyclables or trash. I would hope that this county could set the same goal. Suggestions could be doing such things as buying your goods at the farmers’ market since they don’t prepackage, bringing your own bags for all other groceries and bringing your own containers for available bulk items. Then advocate that grocery stores, drugstores and other suppliers reuse and recycle all they can. Advocate using only compostable or recyclable packaging materials. Of course, compost all you possibly can. Since it would save the county money, perhaps there could be a reward involved with the goal of zero trash.

We have gotten to the extreme with our packaging and need to stop using plastic, a petroleum product. I urge everyone to think about all your trash because the oil spill just dramatized the situation and what we are doing to our planet. We know that the ocean is filled with human trash. And then we have our own county landfill problems.

DEBORAH NICHOLS
Chapel Hill

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