As you move around your home and take a good hard look at its contents, it's likely that your living room will have a television set and a DVD player, and your kitchen will have a washing machine, a tumble, drier, and a microwave oven. Your bedroom drawers may be stuffed with almost three times as many clothes as you need. You almost certainly own a car and a home computer, holiday abroad at least once a year and eat out at least once a week. If you could see the volume of rubbish in your dustbin over a year, you would be horrified.