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Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas? Perhaps even more? Many of us are drowning in all the stuff we buy, and the Boxing Day sales are still going.
But do we really need all this stuff? And where are we going to put it all? Well, there’s always storage space for hire, and lots of it – thousands of facilities around the country.
Australians spend an average of $163 per person each month to store their belongings and, tellingly, around a quarter of customers can’t remember what is actually in their storage unit. And 13% use these facilities to hide their purchases from others.
These are symptoms of the overconsumption that’s doing increasing harm to the planet. Unfortunately, as Louise Grimmer and her colleagues observe, the Earth does not have an off-site storage option. Curbing our desire to consume has to be the solution.
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John Watson
Cities Editor and Deputy Energy + Environment Editor
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Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania; Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology; Martin Grimmer, University of Tasmania
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