Why Go Green – Existing with all the waste and green recycling
Once a week the green garbage disposal truck drives up to your home and lets the foul-smelling trash disappear in his belly. Did you ever think about, where your rubbish is driven and what happens to it?
garbage disposal becomes more problematic from year to year – and additional pricey.
These great garbage amounts must be decontaminated in a number of way. The rubbish rubbish dumps are full, up to the edge, which overloads combustion planning. Dumps, suitable for poisonous waste disposal and processing planning are missing.
And so originated a quite new, rather dubious branch of industry: the hreen rubbish tourism. In road containers and stinking ship bellies lands our mud, in individual the hazardous trash hardly to be removed, against foreign legal tender in poorer countries, mainly in the Third World.
In the meantime, there are trash dumps with highly toxic waste everywhere on earth and even already 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 consumers believe, they act for the benefit of the environment if they buy products with this marking, besides, even if it states just that the needed packaging of these consumables should be returned and be recycled.
Experts have premeditated that thereby the loads of garbage can be relieved yearly with about seven to eight million metric tons of packaging material.
The reasonable solution would be to produce other meaningful packaging.
It is rather 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 trash and claims, on top of 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 qualified advertisements for the ” green point “ or that the consumers have to pay per packaging, up to 30 cents extra. And whether essentially everything can be recycled is not sure generally yet.
The laughing winners are the packaging manufacturers, willingly producing as much as before.
Nearly 30 percent of our household trash consist of packaging of all kind.
Most packaging materials are useless, 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 trash combustion preparations, waste transports are financed.
with the combustion of every single metric ton of rubbish originate in addition circa 4,000 to 5,000 cubic metres of toxic exhaust gases which are blown more or less in the air and are spread out to the surrounding fields, meadows and forests.
Better than any combustion or green recycling is avoiding of garbage.
II. You can avoid rubbish already at the purchase
A little packaging IS needed – for hygienic reasons and for the security of the contents.
However, mostly the packaging serves only for the objective of the advertisement or to draw the concentration of the customer to the product and to force him to buy further.
From the goods of the same kind You should always decide on 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 a replacement for of ready packs
Drinks and milk products you should buy as an alternative of in tins, plastic bottles or not reusable 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 production 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. Completely apart from material consumption and energy consumption in the manufacture, they are the most expensive kind of the packaging.
The price lies sometimes higher than the contents of the packaging. In addition, fresh food contains much further 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 whatsoever there is also in glass containers.
Your Friend Erwin Heid, a German freelance architect, house 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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