Think Before You Toss
Perhaps Grandpa has a point. In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a replacement. If a shirt is torn or coffee machine breaks. You throw it away. The problem is that countries around the world have growing mountains of trash because people are growing out more trash than ever before. For example, in the United States, the amount of trash per person nearly doubled from 1960 to 2000.