Do you have one of these? I got a little obsessed with mine, in fact I got a little obsessed with all my
stuff. Have you ever wondered where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we
throw it out.? I couldn’t stop wondering about that. So I looked it up. And what the text books said is
that our stuff simply moves along these stages: extraction to production to distribution to consumption
to disposal. All together, it’s called the materials economy