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FROM THE EDITOR
“EVERYTHING you see is going to end up in a rubbish bin – even you.”
These words, spoken to me as I interviewed rubbish gleaner and artist Mark Hilltout, who uses found corrugated iron as a canvas, hit home.
As I looked around the room and saw chairs and a couch; a dining room table; clothes; kitchen utensils and other things, the enormity hit me of just how much we acquire over our lifetimes with very little thought as to where it will end up.
When a plogger tells us how bewildered he is to see relatively smart humans buy plastic bags for their groceries, it struck me even further how oblivious to the facts we can be, and how our linear way of thinking about waste can no longer be.
The aim of this waste edition is to open your eyes to the devastation wreaked on our planet by our waste. It also gives you tips and ideas to help turn the tide. Of course, it all begins with knowing – and then doing.
Retraining ourselves in term of what we see as necessities, reducing our need for items that end up in landfills, and waking up to what we are bringing into our homes and putting into our rubbish bins, is a start.
This magazine is also a strong call to governments, manufacturers, and other big companies, to play their part to ensure that a sustainable world is possible.
Finally, as always, a very big thank you to the eco-activists out there, lobbying for change.
Warm regards Vivian Warby
