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Show liOHQOOlllG USA? he trend in America ard the use of disposable hrowaway products is aerating. ae-rating. Today we often eat plastic plates and with stic flatware and then Jw everything away. We Ik from plastic cups. 'E USE disposable Hers for a few months or s and throw them away tmis forced to regularly chase new ones. (Why J!1 a silver lighter which s a lifetime good enough V? Are we too lazy to fill nth fluid every month?) mencans throw away bot-rfMy bot-rfMy the tens of millions - r a bottles which could be " over and over again but oo lazy to carry them j lo stores. We throw )p iy cans in like numbers. ouy expensive aerosol "ys which last only a limited time, then throw them away. WE OFTEN buy cheap clothes, cheap furniture, cheap junk of all kinds and replace it all in a short period. Even our cars are often of-ten abused and unkept and traded away every year or two. In one sense this creates demand. In another it means awful waste, a waste which can't go on forever. But perhaps worst of all, it instills in the young generation the notion that everything is disposable, dis-posable, replaceable, transient. tran-sient. IT PREVENTS many from learning the necessary lesson in life of thrift, the loving care of nice possessions, the maintenance of products acquired. |
