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A short essay on garbage (craigmod.com)
submitted 3 months ago by wilkox@slrpnk.net to c/anticonsumption@slrpnk.net
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Personally, I don’t love carrying my garbage around with me, but I recognize that it wouldn’t exist without my intervention. Nobody ran up and asked me to hold an empty cup. I thoughtlessly bought something. Thoughtlessly consumed it, and now I have to hold onto the detritus for a little while? Great. It’s easy. Easy to embrace that modicum of responsibility for your own waste. This is my protest song, the world’s lamest: I will attend to my garbage without complaint.

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[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I don't understand why people think getting rid of public garbage cans would help at all.

I spent some time homeless, and always thought I was being polite by throwing my stuff away in other people's garbage instead of losing it, but I guess this author would hate me for it.