Being a parent is such a learning experience. In many ways you have to give enough free will to allow them to learn for themselves yet there's always that boundary that needs to be observed to keep them safe from harm at the age where they don't know enough about things. When the toddler is running full speed towards the oncoming car, perhaps it's time for some divine intervention, lol.

I'm not so sure about the present state of our recycling programs - I think China is getting tired of taking all our plastics. I think more products should be up-cycled and made so that they can be improved and used again easily. The old days of reuse of washable bottles for soda and milk were nice in a way. Maybe we could go back to doing something like that but with more generic standardized bottles that could be used for refilling with many types of products by using reusable removable labels that attach to the generic bottle. Serial numbers and blockchain technology could take care of easily refunding deposits or giving them to people who return bottles discarded improperly.