Recycling at Home Part 1 Small Scale

Recycleing is a simple way for everyone to do their part in helping reuse materials.  All the materials that are created non degradable wont go anywhere without recycling.  The basics of recycling are so simple that they could be implemented into a kindergarden learning plan, and should be.  My feeling is that recycling is to easy to not be done, the bigger picture is how do we get this to spread and make it the norm for those who were never taught.  Awareness is the big picture these simple methods need to be spread to others and land fills could someday be compost sites. 

Recycling for home main categories

Paper & Cardboard

Glass

Metal
Plastic



This is my home system takes minimal space and energy. 

Another concept of recycling is buying recycled from the start.  It completes the system gives income to the companys making progress for a sustainable future.

Kerala India, an example for all?

Bill McKibben takes us to a remote area of southern India where people live simply taking only what they need to survive.  People that wouldn't understand why we race to accumulate material goods that are just temporary satisfaction.  Where do we draw the line between want and need?  The number of possessions we have only tend to complicate our lives.  Kerala has managed to give the members of its community a similar quality of life comparable to the U.S. that is sustainable and can be passed to a next generation.  Importance is placed on education, overall community health, family, and  emotional well being things easily over looked in the materialism of the American dream.  Are we truly happy with all our possessions that we disregard as trash into our environment, has anyone stopped to think that progression of man kind can happen without the race to profit from our environment. 
Talking about something is a start, Kerela is an example for the world especially our young United States culture.  There is evidence in our world that resources are limited and also reusable, why push for more expansion when we can be content with what material possessions we need.  Simplifying and reducing society doesn't mean education is sacrificed, with less time working to create the unnecessary goods we can spend more efforts toward educating everyone.  There needs to be change, but change won't come without leaders driving the change and educating others.  My goal to take away from Kerela is to improve the "inefficiency" in my life and set an example for the simpler more progressive future. 
I will be posting more on what i do for inefficiency in my life and comments, suggestions, and personal examples are welcome.