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.
This is just for your information.
ReplyDeleteThis is the web site of my hometown, Hamamatsu-city in Japan. You can read them in Portugues because many portugues live there (19000 out of 800000 people, about 2.4% of population of the city is Brazilian).
Click "Portugues" → "Lixo Queimável·Lixo Reciclável".
You can see we have to separate trash strictly.
http://www.city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp/foreign/index.htm
He I read your blog it is quite intersting, in mean time, I found something you can profoundly work on " the correlation between the habit of eating the fresh food and the cleaning up of the environment.
ReplyDeleteExample: back home in Rwanda unstead of using plastic bag to wrap up the food we use traditional bags which are made of banana leaves.the reason is that after using these bags they can serve as manure for farmers, whereas plastic bags cause pollution.
David
I've been trying to find some good hemp bags that I can start using for grocery shopping. I usually don't buy a whole lot of food at one time, so if I have a bag or two, I can bring my food home without taking a plastic or paper bag from the store. In the past, I used a lot of plastic bags because they were easy to carry, but a nice, strong hemp or canvas bag might be a good solution to the growing number of plastic bags in my cupboard.
ReplyDeleteOn a different topic: you mentioned that in Brazil there is less of an emphasis on recycling than in Belgium. I think this might have something to do with the size and overall development of each country. Brazil is an emerging world power, and it has a lot of areas where it can put trash. Belgium is small and vvery developed, so they need to find solutions to the problem of having too much trash in a small place. It's probably more complicated than that. What do yo think?
David,
ReplyDeleteHey Thaissa, I read an article where they talk about Landfilll.
a landfill also known as a dump( and historically as a midden)is a site for disposal of waste matereials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste disposal and remain so in many places arround the world( Poland, Western Australia,...)
You can compare this traditional form of
recycling to the current way.
For more information go to: http://www.mrlf.org
Definition for few words
- Midden: Known as kitchen midden or a shell
heap;is a dump for domestic waste.
- waste materials: unwanted, undesired
material or substance.
Thanks
Hey Thaissa, I read an article where they talk about Landfilll.
ReplyDeletea landfill also known as a dump( and historically as a midden)is a site for disposal of waste matereials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste disposal and remain so in many places arround the world( Poland, Western Australia,...)
Trash Disposal