Why Go Green – Existing with all the rubbish and green recycling
Once a week the green waste disposal truck drives up to your farmhouse and lets the humming garbage disappear in his belly. Did you ever think about, where your trash is driven and what happens to it?
Rubbish disposal becomes extra difficult from year to year – and extra costly.
These colossal rubbish amounts must be decontaminated in a few way. The waste rubbish dumps are full, up to the edge, which overloads combustion preparations. Dumps, appropriate for poisonous waste disposal and processing planning are missing.
And so originated a totally new, rather dubious subdivision of industry: the green rubbish tourism. In road containers and humming ship bellies lands our mud, in specific the hazardous rubbish hardly to be removed, against foreign currency in poorer countries, mainly in the Third World.
In the meantime, there are rubbish dumps with highly toxic rubbish everywhere on earth and even previously on the sea bottom.
That’s why the “Dual System Germany” (DSD) was introduced in on the 1st December, 1991. Since then the “ green point “ smiles at us on most packaging. He lets many customers believe, they act for the benefit of the environment if they buy products with this marking, besides, even if it states purely that the needed packaging of these consumables should be returned and be recycled.
Experts have considered that thereby the loads of waste can be relieved yearly with about seven to eight million metric tons of packaging material.
The reasonable solution would be to produce additional meaningful packaging.
It is quite strange: On the plastic bottle one finds, for example, no „ green point “, although it is going back to the refiller, up to 40 times once more and produces therefore by far less rubbish and claims, greater than all less raw resources and energy than one aluminium tin with the ” green point “.
Any type of recycling takes a load of the environment and the purse of the clients.
Over this come the trade the originating costs – also count as addition the expert advertisements for the ” green point “ or that the customers have to pay per packaging, up to 30 cents more. And whether actually everything can be recycled is not sure generally yet.
The smiling winners are the packaging manufacturers, cheerfully producing as much as before.
Nearly 30 percent of our household garbage consist of packaging of all kind.
Most packaging materials are pointless, environmental-damaging and expensive.
Therefore, we may pay for it three times.
1. with the purchase at the supermarket,
2. when we pay our garbage disposal fees
3. with our tax money with which waste combustion arrangements, garbage transports are financed.
with the combustion of every single metric ton of garbage originate in addition circa 4,000 to 5,000 cubic metres of toxic exhaust gases which are blown further or less in the air and are spread out to the nearby fields, meadows and forests.
Better than any combustion or green recycling is avoiding of rubbish.
II. You can avoid waste already at the purchase
A little packaging IS necessary – for hygienic reasons and for the protection of the contents.
However, mostly the packaging serves only for the point of the advertisement or to draw the concentration of the customer to the product and to force him to buy extra.
From the goods of the equal kind You should always choose that which are packed in an easy way.
And use for shopping a carrier bag, a basket or a net.
You should buy vegetables and fruit of the season, freshly, as an alternative of ready packs
Drinks and milk products you should buy instead of in tins, plastic bottles or throwaway bottles only in refundable plastic bottles. They can be refilled up to 40 times. For the production of a refundable plastic bottle about 0.17 kWh of energy is spent, but during the manufacture of the not reusable bottle almost the tenfold, namely 1.65 kWh are needed.
You burden the environment if you buy drinks in tin cans. The manufacture of a tin can from a tin plate claims about 2 kWh, of an aluminium tin even 3.6 kWh. Always remember: Green Recycling is good, refundable plastic bottles are better!!
Leave all food in tin cans on the store shelve. Wholly apart from material consumption and energy consumption in the production, they are the most pricey kind of the packaging.
The price lies from time to time higher than the contents of the packaging. In addition, fresh food contains much more vitamins, is healthier and tastes better.
Prefer afterfilling packs, e.g., with spices or salt.
Leave single use products, like ballpoint pen or lighters on the shelve, reach to refillable products.
Don’t buy in plastic packaging whatever there is also in glass containers.
Your Friend Erwin Heid, a German freelance architect, building biologist and advocate for Why Go Green. He like to learn you how You can save hundreds of dollars per month, help to save the planet and secure the future of our children.
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