"Use it
up, wear it out, make it do, do without."
The day after
The Stupid Thing (aka our clogged toilet adventure as described in earlier
blogs) I had a serious mess to clean up.
Which was a very beneficial thing since I am not much of a housekeeper
to begin with and the bathroom did indeed need a “spring cleaning” before this
whole wreck occurred.
As I re-hung the shower curtain that had been “bleached”
(as in eco-bleached-Boraxed) my eyes were once more drawn to the rust-coloured
stains at its base. Its latest birthday
must put it at least 8 years old as it belonged to Jeff’s great aunt before us
(and had hung in the same locale for several years before we bought the home).
“I think I will
just go buy a new one.” The thought
instantaneously brought disgust: why would I so quickly dispose of something
that is functioning and hole-less simply because it has stains at its base???
Immediately I
chastised myself. Here I am, Ms.
Stuff-It Chronicle Girl, disparaging our crap-filled world and our obsessive
consumerism and I myself am pondering such despicable
deliberations. Shame on me.
Uncle John’s
Bathroom Reader, a wonderfully weird-fact-filled reference that ought to be in
all WCs, reported that if all the slinkies ever created in the world were
lined up end to end it would go around our planet 126 times.
And that is just
slinkies…most of which are probably RIPing amidst other non-biodegradable
garbage in dumps everywhere.
According to
Stats Can Ontario produced 9,631,559 tonnes of waste in 2008. (That doesn’t include hazardous waste nor
the waste that was “managed by the waste generator on site”). http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/envir32a-eng.htm
So 9.6 million
tones…what does that really mean? It
means 81 and a half CN Towers (weight-wise) worth of junk that we have dumped
in one single year…
With a
population of 12,934,000 in 2008 in Ontario that means we each produced .74
tonnes of garbage. In our household of
4 that would be 2.96 tonnes or for visual people such as myself, 2 Jetta TDIs…
That’s just
Ontario.
So what do we do
now???
How will YOU
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without."???
2 Corinthians 4:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is
seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal.
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