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The Solution to
a
NO DEPOSIT,
NO RETURN
SOCIETY
What are the consequences of an American culture throwing
away more than most other cultures produce? Where ts
today's life style leading us? Find out how YOU can he/p.
by
David Jon Hi ll
N
o socrETY
in the history of man–
kind has produced as much
garbage as today's Anglo–
American culture. Never before have so
many thrown away so much- with so
little thought or concern about the con–
sequences.
It
appears that we are eagerly
financíng and fulfilling, ourselves, the
Soviet threat of sorne years ago:
"W
e
will bury you !" - as we seem deter–
mined to ínter ourselves in our own
wastes!
Bottles, bottles everywhere, and after
just one drink. . . . Use it once and
throw it away: beer bottles, pop bot–
tles, baby food bottles -
BILLIONS OF
BOTTLES.
"Dead soldiers" is a common
term for used bottles, and it looks like
that term is ever more apropos in the
war of pollution. The only catch is: the
dead
soldiers are winning!
Can It!
Is there
anything
you can't can?
Just because you can can, should you
can?
This year Americans alone will throw
away more than
FIFTY BILLJON CANS -
that's
fifteen cam
for every living person
on the face of the earth
!
Cans (or
tins) are very seldom manufactured to
be
reusable. Cans preserve things for
us to use - they
al
so preserve
them–
selvn
in a nearly immortal manner that
is of
110
11se at all.'
Add to this the non–
degradable waste from over
four billion
dollars' 1110rth
of plastic jars and bottles
every year - they are of no use after
one use either
.'
Forget the nearly inestimable tonnage
of
regular
packaging waste. For the
United States alone you'll have to add
to the junk pile about
eight mi/Jion
old
TV sets, another
eight mil/ion
autos that
won't run any more and have to be