Da Minimists.

There is no minimalist rule book.

Well, until now, the minimalist have created 16 rules for living with less.

A free ebook, which you can download right now at theminimists.com slash resources.

Enjoy.

Is recycling actually making a difference?

I've heard a lot about how expensive it is to recycle materials and that most recycled

waste ends up in landfills anyway.

It seems as if it is merely perceived as a responsible decision for the environment.

So I'd be curious to see what the data says.

I've got an article on exactly this topic coming out in wired as soon as I finish it and

then after a little bit where I look at in particular plastics recycling, which is something

that we have been told is a really important, really valuable thing to do and the evidence

convinces me otherwise.

The only way, for example, that America's post-consumer plastic winds up in the ocean is if we put

it in our recycle bins.

If we put it in the trash bin, it goes to landfill.

And when you hear the word landfill, a lot of people think of a town dumped from the 1940s.

So you know, there are rats everywhere and birds flying overhead.

It's this environmental nightmare.

That might have been true in the 1940s.

Modern landfills are very environmentally stable.

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