The article, Waste Not, from the book, Natural Capitalism, tells us how much waste we actually are producing. You know, those interesting statistics that show you how much it really costs just to make a bottle of water. It also goes one step beyond and talks about how expensive it is, to keep prisoners. It makes us to be more aware of how much we are "wasting" just by purchasing most of the products or maybe even doing wrongdoings to get ourselves into jails. It has a good point, we are producing a lot of wastes.
Now the question is, "what is a 'waste'?"
When you accidentally made an ugly mark on a piece of white paper, does it mean you just wasted that paper? It's either a "yes" or a "no", and it depends on one thing; Are you going to use the other side of that paper?
As I mentioned earlier, I would like to work at T-shirt designs for my senior project. The best way to create a lot of "waste" is by printing many shirts and have them all ended up in a trash can, instead of those green, giant, metal boxes that send clothes to places where people would be happy to wear anything that fits. Since that is the case, I would say one way to prevent from wasting is to print shirts only when I am sure the design is set to go. If I don't have too much confidence, I might as well let people order before I even print them.
To even create lesser "waste", I can even use used shirts. That way I would be taking the other people's "waste" and turning them into things that no longer look like "wastes".
Hopefully.
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good idea! using used shirt. tell more of what you're gonna do ha! like... use the used water for paint to pour some plants.. or donate the used painters to some foundation, etc. yeah, your have a some good point! i like your example on what is waste; that's like what i do everytime.. it's bad :( GOOD JOB!
I love the used t-shirt idea! Great tie in with Social Sculpture class too. Nice blog entry.
I think your idea of sending the messed up shirts to third world countries is great; however, you have to be aware of the other problem that is sending those shirts all the way to third world countries would create ecological footprints. We could buy carbon credits, but like what the Global Ethics Class talked about last time, creating the problem and solve it is not the same as not creating the problem.
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