Contemplative point 4: Consumption and waste go hand in hand.
Reduce consumption and you get reduced waste. Increase consumption and what you get is increased waste. In case you haven’t noticed it, there is a proportional relationship thing going on here between consumption and waste.
In the consumption/waste combination, never is consumption ever in the wrong. The waste component, now that’s a different story.
So, waste being the problem half, how, then, to deal with it is the question.
What to do with all the refuse
Waste is unavoidable. That there are many different kinds of waste, all of it requires dealing with (processing). And,
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