No Trash

Every time I see a trash can I am reminded of this idea. If you look at what goes into the trash, its mostly packaging, boxes, containers, etc. and mostly for food. One afternoon when I was describing my solution to a friend, he said, oh ya, they do that on islands. Turns out islanders don’t have allot of space for landfills and they have to haul away all their garbage, which gets expensive. Their solution, grocery stores ship goods in reusable containers. Yaaa !!! I so love this idea. No more taking out the trash. Imagine this. A crate that stacks like milk crates and all the containers fit in the crates nicely so as to not get damaged. Big, small containers they all stack into a standard crate. You add some wheels and every time you go to the store you take your crates of containers and wheel them in. The grocery washes and puts them back on the shelf. Maybe you have them delivered and picked up. It all works just like it does now, except no trash.

Maybe you are a restaurant owner, who at the end of the day has some extra food that he can’t sell. Instead of chucking it in the trash he puts it in containers and sends it to the local grocery to sell. He gets to promote his food and not waste it (more trash) and the containers are reusable.