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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily!

I like this quote. It is an old Chinese saying expressing what we mean when we say someone’s trash is someone else’s treasure. That many of us think that this is true is very visible when we look at numbers of charity shops, scrap shops, car boot sales, swap shops, free cycle networks etc, etc out there. Turning trash to treasure is true recycling or even better up cycling which describes a process of converting waste or unwanted materials into new materials or products of a better quality or a higher environmental value. If we manage to look beyond the current purpose of a product or thing and see its next lives hidden inside, we turn trash to treasure. The beauty about this is that once you started it you won’t be able to stop. You see it happening all around you. You stop being a consumer who is told by the consumer industry what to buy and when to buy it. Turing trash to treasure you will use less resource, you will create less waste, you will live a more sustainable life and it feels good.


Trash to Treasure

You too can turn your own trash to treasure by creative recycling and start using, wearing, enjoying your old and unwanted things, again. There is a universe out there with millions of ways of turning trash to treasure. The conversion from trash to treasure does not need to look homemade or like a school’s project. Once I had started creative recycling I looked at all my stuff and thought what will you be in your next life. I found many many great ways of turning my trash to treasure.


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