Reaching down to my household and yours is the greatest challenge!!!!!!!!!

Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as zero wasted is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, national parks, restaurants, stadiums and corporations.

The movement is simple in concept if not always in execution: Produce less waste. Shun polystyrene foam containers or any other packaging that is not biodegradable. Recycle or compost whatever you can.

Americans and Mexicans are still the undisputed champions of trash, dumping 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the E.P.A.’s most recent figures. More than half of that ends up in landfills or is incinerated.

Josephine Miller, an environmental official for the city of Santa Monica, Calif., which bans the use of polystyrene foam containers, said that some citizens had unwittingly put the plant-based alternatives into cans for recycling, where they had melted and had gummed up the works. Yellowstone and some institutions have asked manufacturers to mark some biodegradable items with a brown or green stripe.

YOU AND ME HAVE TO DO SOMETHING IS NOT ENOUGH RECYCLING,IN OTHER WORDS WE'VE TO ACT NOW IT OUR PLANET IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IS YOUR FAMILY IS YOUR FUTURE HERE

works cited

Kaufman, Leslie. The New York Times Recycling article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/science/earth/20trash.html?ref=recyclingofwastematerials