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Closing thoughts on the blog summit

As the blog closes my interest in recycling has not changed from where it was before the summit began. It has neither increased or decreased.

My passion is reducing, reusing and composting all I can and keeping recycling and landfill waste to a minimum. Through my zero waste website, I share everything I am doing with our readers so that those who are interested can work with us towards a better future.

The blog summit isn’t quite what I anticipated. I feel we all talked *at* one another, rather than took part in good conversation. There was no one pulling things together or helping to create a good debate.

Things went off topic and became dogmatic on occasions; which diluted my enthusiasm to contribute my thoughts further.

As a society moving forward to ensure we are making plastics recycling as efficient and effective as possible, we all need to get our egos out of the way, get rid of greed, stop aggressive marketing, get back to basics and start living within our means. Most of this has been covered elsewhere on the summit.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Kristin Foster for her tireless work and energy ‘behind the scenes’ in bringing this summit together. Usually it is the people out of the limelight that do the real work. It’s been an interesting experience for me and I feel privileged that I was asked to take part. However, I do not feel that my time and energy was well spent and I’m not at all sure what we achieved as a group.

I look forward to a recap from Sharon and her team to try and get a true evaluation of the past month.