If we
believe in the concept of garbage then everything we have, cherished or not, is
garbage. You are sitting on garbage, eating garbage, sleeping in garbage and
wearing garbage. It is only the action of decision and a moment in time that
changes an objects status. It is only an
objects rejection due to its inability to fulfill its purpose in your eyes that
sets an objects destiny.
If there is
garbage then all things are trash based on arbitrary values placed on it using subjective
rationale.
What if we
changed that, what if we recognized everything as valuable in some context?
What if in
our decision to purchase an item we asked ourselves how long will this be useful
and once it is no longer useful to me who will use it next? Further how will an
object in it's whole form or in its various materials and then raw material can
be eternally used?
If an object
is formed for long term use, repaired and valued by many over a long time. Then
if its original function is lost can it be repurposed in whole or in part
without energy use? When no part of the object can be repurposed any further
how easy is it to get it back to its base resources and then those resources
used again?
If your umbrella
was not garbage when the individual raw materials were collected, and when the individual
parts were manufactured, it was not garbage when the parts were assembled, it
was not garbage when you purchased it, and it is not garbage when you used it,
it was not garbage when you repaired it once or twice, when is it garbage, why
does it become garbage?
What if we
released ourselves from the concept of valueless objects and seen all things as
resources in transition? What if quality included an emphasis on the repurposing
of the object, its parts and in the end it raw material?
What if disposable was
a dirty word?
I believe in
garbage and objects often seem to have no value or are too hard to find value
in, but why?
Can I change, maybe so, I will try, but what can be done in this disposable world?
