I was researching an interesting article about recycle and I found a really interesting point that I had never thought about before. What I am talking about is what is happening in a city of Belgium. The quantity of trash produced in the world is something that we can imagine. It is too much trash for our planet and many people do not worry about it. The announcement and commercial to ask people to help to recycle their trash and try to produce less trash is in everywhere, but many people do not care about it. The government in Flanders town of Lokeren, one part of Belgian, started to do something to change the quantity of trash produced in there. How they did that? They started to charge people where they pay separated fee for the trash produced. More trash they produce, more money they need to spend. They have a special car that weighs the trash every time they go to take the trash at the houses. They have a computer with all data about the population and when they weigh the trash they save the information connected to the correct people/family. When I read the article I thought it is a really interesting type of control. The population is producing less trash since it started and they are changing their habits to better. Many people when go to grocery store look for food that does not have a lot of paper or plastic. They prefer to buy fresh food. Buy fruit instead of frozen juice. And when I stopped to think about that I think it can be a good idea. It does not help just the nature but also help the population healthy because they are eating more fresh food. I do not know if they have a limit of trash and if they produce more than that they need to pay, or if it is for every trash they produce. In Brazil the people do not worry about recycle. It is very difficult to make the people to do that. The government do not work hard for educate the population to recycle though. But I think it could be a good idea to have a limit for person to produce trash and if produce more they need to pay fee. Or, every house should do recycle in their house and if they went to take the trash and it is not separated they charge the house’s owner. Recycle is really important and the people do not have this as a really important thing to our planet and our life.
