If you rinse it out, a single ziploc bag can be used a hundred times.
If you freeze your food, it doesn’t expire (any time soon).
Old t-shirts make good pillow cases.
Ripped jeans are great for crafting, fixing, and tying  things together.
A new cell phone or a trip across the world, it’s up to you.

But in most circumstances, we don’t do this.
Because throwing it away is easier,
and getting something new is nicer.

You see,
we are over-consumers, with a severe lack of respect for the things that provide us with the lives we live:

food to fill our bellies,
clean air to breathe,
the water we drink,
cotton for our clothing,
oil for our vehicles;

Need I go on? …

The very basic necessities for our survival, are direct gifts from the Earth.

Yet we throw them away like they’ll replenish themselves at our demand; like it is a hundred times harder to walk over and press the button on the tv, compared to the energy it takes for fresh berries to blossom in the Spring.

So we turn the lights on, because we lack the patience to wait for our eyes to adjust, and we put new batteries in the remote. Then we throw the whole container of berries away, because one single berry was molding.

Yet, it was those very berries that provided us with the energy to do anything in the first place. But it doesn’t matter, because they are just berries, and we need to be on time for the next fake scene plastered in front of us.

Nature lives for the sake of the Earth, and not for the sake of humans. 

If you argue in terms of God, then you are naive;
I don’t think God intended us to abuse His gifts, at our pleasure.

If you are Atheist, then you are no more innocent;
the very roots of your existence is in the Earth you abuse.

Afterall, we didn’t just sprout up here; we either come from God(s) that gift us the world we live in. Or we didn’t, and our roots lie in the very Earth we are mass consuming.

Respect the Earth. Without it, we are nothing.

If it’s broken, fix it.
If it’s not,  use it until it is.
If it’s stained, cover it up.
If it’s moldy, cut it off.
If it’s expired, use it fast.
And when it’s no longer useful,

Make art!