Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Prosperity through Recycling Ideas

Market competition has reached a stage where margin of profit is attaining its saturation point. Coupled with this is the emergence of countries with high availability of manpower at low cost. One has to look for other means of saving money manufacturing and marketing pipeline.
Every crisis gives rise to opportunity. Entrepreneurs and business owners have found an amazing way to cut the cost of manufacture. This was hidden in the amount of wastage associated with different stages of manufacture , right from the mineral beneficence to the end product.
Take for example, patterns, moulds and artifacts made from wood. The sawdust is now glue-pressed to obtain particle boards. The scrapes and cuttings are used to provide insulation inside a door panel . Small wood pieces are shaped into toys and miniature fancy items. Unusable pieces of wood are burnt to obtain heat for boilers and cooking. The remains, if any, are then mixed with organic manure to provide permeability to the soil . Such addition finally converts itself to organic manure.
Previously dressings of chicken were thrown as a waste. Now, 100% of chicken is utilized. The intestine is cleaned and a delicacy is prepared most popularly in Chinese style. The claws are cut into small pieces to make a healthy soup. The blood, bones and other remains are processed for animals and for growth of flower giving plants and shrubs. The feather is stuffed into sofa, bed or in jackets to provide warmth in a cold weather.
In matter of household too, an average middle class and the lower strata find it difficult to meet both ends. On one end are the essentialities of life, in the middle is the comfort zone and at the extreme is the luxury galore. However, there is a radical change in the standard of living for good. We find more luxury items such as high end cars, entertainment gadgets, apartment flats, bungalows, tourism to far off places have not remained the monopoly of the rich and the effluent. Percentage consumption of such items of comfort and luxury has risen drastically . Take home money for a larger section of society has risen so has the prices of essential items. Price increase of essential items indicates that large cross section of population has got money to buy. Expenditure on comfort and luxury items indicates that people have started learning the hidden concept of saving money through conserving, economizing, reusing and above all recycling.
You can also have things which you dream by saving through recycling. You can save up to 50%. Look around yourself. There may be papers rearing to be written and used on the other side. There must be green waste which you can recycle into green manure. There may be , sometimes, leftover foods which you can recycle into delicious snacks for the evening. You may recycle waste water going into the drains, to irrigate your kitchen garden and the courtyard.
Take tips from others who have identical means such as you but have a higher standard of living. Recycling such ideas to your advantage.

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