Hello from the New Editor

I didn’t know anything about sustainability and eco-living until I began working for a recycling machinery distributor in 2004. It was an eye-opener. Seeing the back end of consumerism, the dirty little secret of the materials process, was a huge reality jolt.

MRF’s, waste transfer stations, landfill and composting sites are smelly, but fascinating – at least they were to me. Aggregate recycling (400 million tonnes/year) and composting (3.6 million tonnes/year) became my favourites.

The fascination, I admit, was in the big machines that did the task. I started to realise just how efficient we could be. Not just in our recycling process but in our buying processes too.

I stopped worshipping at the Cathedrals of Consumerism and am aiming for a simpler life. A life closer to the natural world, where play is a part of every day – unstructured outdoor time, so necessary for a balanced life.

Joining the Green Pepper team is very exciting; becoming more active in the Green Community, growing and working together, expanding the grass roots changes that are occuring all around us.

Yes, we need to be more resource efficient. Yes, we need to get back to a simpler, more natural lifestyle. Yes, we have a challenge to face in Climate Change.

We are One Earth, one community. Working together we can move any mountain. Even if there are 400 million tonnes of it!

Over the coming weeks and months I hope to bring the same level of informative and entertaining articles for which Green Pepper is renowned. If you have any suggestions or comments, do let me know. I look forward to hearing more from the Green Pepper readers.

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