Chapter 20 ★18 virtuous circle

Another amazing benefit of simplifying your life is that it makes the virtuous cycle easier.By simplifying your eating habits (Methods 5 and 7), you will be able to greatly reduce the burden that comes from handling food.By choosing your beverages (Method 60), you'll be able to drastically reduce some of the cans, bottles, and plastic containers you used to have to dispose of and throw away.By cutting your daily newspaper (Step 28), cutting your magazine subscriptions (Step 27), and reducing your junk mail (Step 26), you will drastically reduce the amount of paper that must be recycled. In addition to aspirin, you can also reduce the existence of bottles and wrappers by getting rid of a few things.Also, you can reduce the use of medicines and some expired medicines that don't work (Law 66).Reviewing your shopping habits (method 40) and breaking free from the shackles of the holidays (method 33) can not only reduce your burden, but also keep your life from becoming a mess.Of course, cleaning up (method 1), keeping tidy (method 89), and gift giving simple (method 3 and 5) are also motivations to promote a virtuous circle.

Recycling can only solve part of the world's mess problems, experts agree.Implementing simplification campaigns everywhere to reduce waste is the focus of solving the problem.