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Toronto has had the $0.05 tax for a while now. Our own consumption of plastic bags have dropped drastically.
It created a new market for those reusable bags made from recycled plastic. Everyone sells them now---even the public library.
I think it's about time we focus on all three Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. I think recycling has become too much of a crutch in terms of our usage habits. It's the most resource intensive of the three.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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