...When I'm getting rid of something I strive to find it a "good home" (give it/sell it to someone who wants it/needs it). This can be surprisingly difficult in many cases and can take a lot of time and energy...but it also forces me to really think twice when I'm contemplating buying/aquiring a thing (because sometime in the future I will most likely have to go through the same hassle with this thing too).
Giving/donating stuff to charity can be a good thing but there is two things about it that bothers me...Firstly it makes an easy excuse to keep consuming ( =taxing environment/natural resources etc...) while still being able to feel good about ones behaviour ("sure I consume enormous amounts of stuff that I don't actually need but I donate to charity so everyting is fine for me to continue this behaviour")...Secondly, AFAIK charityorganisations have to purge a lot of the stuff they are given for different reasons (the things can be unsellable or are broken/garbage or they simply haven't got storage room for everything)...and then the stuff still ends up as landfill/waste. (I would really appreciate some hard facts/statistics on how much of what is donated to charity that ends up being discarded/thrown away)
Submitted May 19, 2018 at 04:09AM by goodcomic______ https://ift.tt/2rSdRgK
