Recycling has been praised as the solution. And yes — it’s better than landfill. But it still requires breaking something down. It still consumes energy, it still assumes we’ll buy the same thing again.
Recycling is a good bandaid, but it’s not respecting our planet. For those of us looking to care, we need to get back to reusing. And, when items can’t be reused, we need to find ways to repurpose them.
Somewhere along the way, we normalised “disposable.”
And before convenience became our culture, things were made and built to last.
Made to be repaired, made to be reused over and over again until they couldn’t be anymore.
At My Little Town, I don’t start with recycling. I start with reuse.
Recycling should be the last option, just before the bin.
Because waste isn’t inevitable.
It’s a design decision.
And I choose differently.