Building Alive, Designing to Thrive

Yes, sorry mom. Here is yet another thing I am insisting we change in the house. Here's a couple Did-you-knows to help start proving my point (via Greenseal) : 40% of trash in landfills is paper products 30% of the timber harvested annually in the US is used to make paper products And yes mom, I hear your first argument " But when it gets to a landfill, it breaks down eventually. AND it still has to go to a landfill after it's used- recycled or not " First of all, nothing breaks down in landfills anymore. Since the 1960's the US has invested in something called sanitary landfills. Sounds nice, right? Well it means that be basically lead-line all of our landfills so nothing can seep into the soil and contaminate it because of all the toxins inside of things we use everyday: mercury, formaldehyde, BPA, etc. Things that, if they did leak into the soil could reach the water table and make a lot of people very very sick. So they are necessary. However, without...