Recycling Demonstration Centers Needed

I find it very sad to sense that in the 21st Century year 2009, I myself still have not read or heard about any federally-sponsored or federally-endorsed "United States Recycling Demonstration Center" situated in our nation's capital city.

Washington, D.C., should hold the distinction of being our nation's premier showcase city, and a city where the very finest of American ideals are found and exemplified in abundance.

Any American citizen or foreign visitor to Washington, D.C., should enjoy the option of visiting a Model Home and Model Workplace demonstration center being used to help educate the general public on a year-round basis.

Trained "tour guides" and educators could help to point out each of the techniques and strategies that each household could diligently pursue to participate fully and comprehensively in natural-resource reycling of all trash items generated inside that household's house, condominium unit, or rental apartment.

In a different section of that proposed U.S. Recycling Demonstration Center in Washington, D.C., trained educators could politely describe the various ways in which each employer could diligently and comprehensively on a year-round basis participate in natural resource recycling at the workplace.

This is just one of the ways in which our federal government could be doing more than it currently is to promote comprehensive nationwide participation in natural-resource recyling on a year-round basis by all American citizens and all other residents of the United States.

And that massive expansion of our nationwide natural-resource recycling industry, in turn, could serve as a major boon in a salutary realignment and revitalization of our nation's economy.

Those who recycle convey the message that they believe in the future of this country. They also convey the message that they reject the widely-held view of people all over the world that American society is doomed to failure because of the "throw-away" and "toss it all into a trashcan" mentality that has pervaded American life ever since the mid-20th Century.