Today there are disposable eating utensils, diapers, cameras, paintbrushes, and many other items not considered valuable enough to keep. We use them once and then forget them. We don't know where they come from, and we don't care where they go. They all end up on a mountain.
We often seem immune to the gross indignity of waste in our lives. We've been trained to consume and discard, rather than to take care of what we already have. And this can extend to our relationships with other people, our view of the environment, and our image of ourselves. If something becomes boring or too difficult, we attempt to toss it away, to pretend it never existed, to find something better or more exciting. It becomes easier for us to try to rid ourselves of difficulties than to learn from them. We keep adding more to the mountain.
— Gary Thorp, Sweeping Changes