I’ll revive this dead thread with something that may be discussed elsewhere on this great site I just discovered. On the topic of saving stuff, wouldn’t it be great if we looked at if from a local community perspective in addition to a personal perspective? Why does stuff have to go right to the landfill? Why can’t some stuff go to a sort of purgatory first? I’m imagining a big pole building full of categorized junk that is open to the permies. Maybe like a Goodwill store for bones that still have a little meat left on them. Keep the stuff around until the categories get full, then start the process of filtering what is left into its appropriate waste path. Community hoarding or saving. I think this approach would greatly reduce waste. Much more could be recycled with better sorting and accumulation.
