Recycle, Reuse, Reduce

 In the news, there are tons of stories of shortages: appliances, cans, heck even wine bottles. Why aren't we doing what we were taught in elementary school: recycle reduce, reuse?

I get that it is difficult to recycle certian things but let's start with something simple: glass. This stuff has already been crafted. A wine company could make a killing by saying that they are doing their part to help the environment. 

You could have local grocery stores do what they did in the 40's & 50's: let people drop off their clean, empty bottles for a small refund. These get packed up and sent to a place that washes and sterilized, then sent back to the vineyards.

It is a win win situation. Empty glass bottles don't get thrown in the dump, people have jobs hauling the bottles from the stores to the wash to the vineyards, vineyards have bottles for their product.

I realize that there may be more to it than what I described but the idea is there. We need to do something for our communities.