Sorting through the rubbish for a better end

Updated May 29 2017 - 4:30pm, first published 3:10pm

The dazzling and unstoppable juggernaut which is modern consumerism seems at times to overpower the best intentions of the environmentally conscious. While school children with their compelling hope for the future and questioning desire to change wasteful practices sound a note of potent possibility, on the macro level there appears to be little but procrastination or self-serving premature defeat. Whether it is the atrophy of leaders, the self-interested collusion of corporations or the more basic and ineluctable tidal lure of price, the disposable world we live can leave the average resident in a state of despair.

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