Coupled with reducing consumption, a renewed resolution to recycle absolutely everything is needed. As a personal mandate composting should be embraced by every household. Self-mulching yards and parks could easily be achieved. If it can't be recycled, it should not be manufactured. Let's visualize an America where landfills are obsolete.
Sustainability requires no less.
Robert Nanninga is a free-lance writer, producer and environmental journalist. A native of Vista living in Leucadia, he Chairs San Diego ZPG, as well as representing coastal North County on the Green County Council.