I think the words "trash" and "garbage" are both much more negative, and
am concerned when I see or hear news reports that equate recycling with
one of those terms.
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Dave Wade
Recycling Coordinator
UCSC Housing Services
email: dmwade@cats.ucsc.edu
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I think Bruce and John bring up good points-- the source reduction issue in
particular.
The materials we are dealing with are waste from the
generators' perpsective (from the users' perspective it is a feedstock),
but it is not garbage, rubbish, trash, etc. Just because it's called waste
going out doesn't mean it's not a resource in a new process. That's what
nature is all about. We need to change the value/mindset we put on the
word waste.
--Amy Perlmutter