Chapter 25
Ten Questions That Reveal How Much Your Waste Is Costing You
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering the hidden costs of waste
Exploring where secondary costs occur in waste management
Investigating where opportunities lie for costs to become revenue
Waste is often seen as valueless. That’s why you throw it out to begin with: It serves no purpose and therefore should be disposed of, right? The entire system on which our lives as consumers function has been designed under a false premise: Waste is inevitable and holds no value. But that’s not reality. Waste still holds value, in many ways, and in the end, it’s costing you much more than you think. Dealing with waste is time consuming; it harms not only human health but environmental health as well. Also, ensuring waste is properly sorted between recyclables and non-recyclables requires a lot of human effort! The cost of waste is often ignored, misrepresented, or separated from the waste itself. It doesn’t matter how the truth is bent and shifted — waste is costing you.
In this chapter, we help you explore the ten ways that waste is costing you, and we offer some new perspectives. Waste doesn’t need to cost you. Instead, it can be ...
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