Let's get on with it!

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Why a local trading post?
Quite simply, people throw good stuff away when it could - and should - be reused.
Other people simply need good stuff. (And often can't afford to buy it.)
By giving away (or exchanging) such goods, particularly locally, we can save on consumption, waste, transport miles, pollution.
We can tread more lightly on our planet.
We can get to know and look after our neighbours.
We can even save money!

Traditional 'hard rubbish' collections are resource-intensive: greenhouse, labour, dollars.
They are also, overall, very wasteful when the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle paradigm is applied: pretty much all waste goes into a compactor, so the ideal outcome for unwanted goods (RE-USE) is no longer available.
Furthermore, these RESOURCES are transported a long distance for reprocessing and/or landfill. Still more waste!

Many people with too much time on their hands drive around snaffling stuff.
Good on 'em!
This remains technically 'illegal', I think – but most rational householders are happy to see their 'rubbish' re-used – and even Councils turns a blind eye, because it reduces their inputs.
Yet such opportunist salvage is not a long-term solution, since too much embedded energy (a.k.a. RE-USABLE consumer goods) remains unfulfilled by the roadside, awaiting its wasteful fate.

So get onboard! Even if it's not dying yet, our planet is in big trouble.
No, don't wait for someone else to fix things.
The 'Cargo Cult' has never worked.
Our governments remain more part of the problem than the solution: hostage to sectional lobby groups and the tax revenues generated by profligate overconsumption – ahead of us, who elect them and pay their wages; ahead of the world that sustains us.
As with 'peak oil', the need for approbation has long passed: we need to take control of our future. Now.
So Let's get on with it!

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