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23 November 2010

#327 Start recycling

The concept of 365 things you can do emerged in Navid Modiri’s head as he sat in an airport hyper-ventilating over how he’d become a miserable human being. But as he looked up between his not-breathing he saw John Tells book "100 ways to save the world". That’s how 365 things started. This is a way to praise Johan Tell, and the planet. Here are: Seven things you can do to save the world.

There is an area outside the U.S. coast, where colorful plastic pieces float in the water. We’re not talking one or two but several tonnes of plastic. A toxic Bermuda Triangle where people’s good conscience disappears. Drowns.

When we were kids we were playing war in the containers in the yard, threw bits of old plasterboard on each other and fought with steel rods. Now we’re bigger and don’t have the energy to recycle the piled-up PET bottles after we’ve drunk our third bottle of carbonated water today.

1. Stop whining.

2. Get a Sodastreamer.

3. Start sorting.

Bonus - Here you can read more about sorting and recycling. http://www.ftiab.se/

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 week or less
Cost: 
Free
Cons: 
It takes a few extra seconds to throw rubbish. It takes an extra minute to throw in the bags at the recycling center instead of in the garbage shoot (if available).
Pros: 
Every man should think of himself as an in- and outflow. We have no problem with eating, wanting, buying and searching, but it should be as natural to give and contribute somehow. You balance out all the coffee and cakes by also doing something for the planet that fosters your existence. You can at least sort the shit you accumulate.
Taggar: sorting, recycling, karma account, Johan Tell, fredagsmys, environment, batteries, 365 things you can do

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