I sure am glad to see a lot of people doing their part.
Someone DOES have to do the long term planning. People of old didnt have much to just throw away, everyone recycled by reusing everything they could, and there wasnt many things they couldnt. Thinking of how much civilization has modernized into using disposable products, its overwhelming at the pace in which it growed. Just two hundred years ago, people wouldnt have dreamed of just throwing things away. Thats alot of waste produced in so little time considering how long man has been upon the earth, and what about in another two hundred years, if it even lasts that long? The thought is staggering! Throwing shit away has turned into a hell of a crisis within both rural and urban areas. Land fills are filling up, with less and less areas to make new ones, and just thinking about how unhealthy it has to be for the earth and the human race to just bury trash into the ground and forget it. Its horrible. We get everything from the earth we need to survive: water, food, air, medicine, ect., a long term plan to reverse these modern bad habits must be put into action. Recycling will play a larger and larger part in getting the ball rolling to preserve what we seem to be consuming up at too much of an alarming rate.
I do recycle, too. My town is small, but they do offer curbside service if enough people in that particular area participate, and unfortunately since my town does not have mandatory law or even much awareness of the subject, most people do NOT, so the service is limited to people who actually do. I have to load mine up and take it to the center. Recently they stopped accepting glass of any kind. Imagine that! They never had any type of compost program, but that is something to write my city officials about. I recycle just about everything I can, and every time I drop it off, it makes me so sad to see all the people come through and drive past the recycling bins to the dumpster. I do what I can though, and I suppose its all I can do.