What We See in the Trash

A lot of folks see trash as this enormous problem and the way we deal with it today it is. But here on the Bombastic “East Forty” we got a different way a ranchin’. You see we see the trash stream as a vibrant transport system all this material winging it’s way around the world. The challenge is to identify what can be done with it in it’s final destination and do that in that location. That might be a plastic facility, that might be a reassembly facility for electronics it might be a re-manufacturing facility for textiles. We are blessed these days with amazing machines that can take a lot of the grudge work out of this stuff. If we looked at the waste stream as an absolute resource put on our thinkin’ caps and asked- How to transform this stuff from trash into products as quickly and efficiently as possible? ” If when then proceeded to implement flexible manufacturing facility in the areas where the trash accumulates and could adapt that facility to various processes depending on the availability of the raw material. We would start looking at the trash completely differently.
Don’t tell us it can’t be done coz we are doing it. We are starting to branch out into textiles as well because Bali has mountains of remnant material that they either send away to Java to be ground up and made into god knows what or use a rags in fishing boats or put to some other really equally unimaginative purpose. We are going to start making some beautiful rugs from this material and so is born “The Ragtag Rug Company”.
So we see Ghandi’s “homespun” message written large in the sky from where we sit on our porch. We see jobs and raised standard of living and a new hyper efficient system all based on trash. We just have to open our collective eyes and see things a different way. Do it! It’s fun!