When the going gets though, the tough gets going

I thought it was really cool when my last visit in China seeing supermarkets stop giving plastic bags to shoppers. The A4 size card board I discarded was disappeared in sight for less then 30 min because someone has pick it up to sell to recyclers. After The Nation has taken in more than a million of immigrants, the society behaviour had the spill over effects. We have an Elderly Chinese lady picking up flyers every morning at the mailboxes for resell. These flyers were usually clean up by the sweepers and dump into our garbage bins. They ended up being burnt into ashes. Our garbage has turn into their gold. They will get 15 cents per kg of papers collected from the buyer and they tend to compare to almost 5 times of the value of their hometown's currency. So next time before you dump the flyers into the bins, do reconsider giving it to these people and let them earn some money and create one less waste.