Sustainable Living

I have an interesting question about individuals take on sustainability.

I noticed that household do not mind to spend thousand dollars to install water filter system in their house as many do not feel safe of using the piped water. Many have no confident on the quality of water supply. They are willing to spend for their own health and safety, and of course sustainability.

I am wondered if similar principle is applied beyond their house compound. For example, spend more time and money disposing their rubbish at source. Buying a composting machine to turn the waste into compost or to create the waste water before discharging into the drain and river. While everyone foresee a problem of keeping own compound dirty and untidy or not to have clean stuff coming in, nobody has actually bothered about dirty things of flowing outside their house. For instance, we never bother about how our rubbish is treated and dumped to. We do not even want to know that waste water or grease flowing out from our kitchen is polluting the river.

So, it is matter of reverting our principle to good use. It is matter of treating the environment in our surrounding to the same treatment that we expect to receive for ourselves in our home. It is about basic right that we would like to enjoy with the condition that others are not affecting from enjoying the same right.

It is about sustainable development.