365 Days of Trash Reaction

Could you honestly imagine not throwing away any trash for a whole year? Ok well how about not only not throwing away trash for a year but trying to find ways to recycle it all? Well you may not be able to imagine it but a two time emmy award winning cameraman named Dave Chameides brought it life. How random is that? A camerman came up with such an idea and actually carried it out. That is almost equivalent to Ghandi originally being lets say a basket weaver who just woke up one day and decided "hey I think I am going to starve myself for the sake of world peace." This is how Dave originally came up with the idea: "The idea for this project came about six months ago as I was throwing something away in the garbage. It occurred to me that I was doing nothing more than that. I was making it go away, not dealing with it, not accounting for it, simply removing it from my sight. When you think of it in simple terms like that, it’s really quite insane. I came to the realization that if we were all accountable for our waste, if we couldn’t simply make it disappear, we’d have to deal with some pretty ugly truths about the way we live. And in so doing, it would cause us to start making better decisions about what we buy, where we buy, and what’s left over when we are done with that purchase." That's pretty deep. It makes me feel awful because I don't really think too much when I throw stuff away. I mean don't get me wrong I do recycle, but I never realized that perhaps there was so much more that someone could do to stop trashing the planet. Who knows maybe this cameraman has really got something and it will catch on to the masses.....or not. Either way I just recently learned in psychology that even if you do something that can't help everyone, whatever you do do it's a start and it can better yourself. Obviously Dave's trash alone being recycled and kept to a minimum couldn't save the planet right away, but at least he's doing his part.