How did this happen?

Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 1:23AM EDT

When I look at the junk I have lying around sometimes I wonder how in the it got to be that things like that have no place to go but a landfill. The mass production of consumer goods has come at a terrible price. Sure it makes things cheaper because of increased effecieny but at the consequence of having a whole bunch of things that will go unused and take up valuable space. I guess the way manufacturing developed the consequence of leftover goods and what to do with them never was thought of. I have the most ridiculous odds and ends just lying around that I will never use again yet the only options I have are keeping them or sending them off to a landfill. If mankind is really to progress and evolve the economy and way of living then finding a true end to end solution for manufactured goods need to be found. We should never have any waste products ever. Everything should be recycled or dissasembled somehow into smaller parts for reuse. It is all really about energy anyway. Right now we probably don't have the energy to do that. The more I throw away things and the more I think about why I have to do that the less sense it makes.