Why Go Green - Active With All The Garbage And Green Recycling
December 25, 2009 by Go Green Tips
Why Go Green - Living with all the trash and green recycling
Once a week the green waste disposal truck drives up to your residence and lets the humming trash disappear in his belly. Did you ever think about, where your garbage is driven and what happens to it?
rubbish disposal becomes extra difficult from year to year - and further expensive.
These colossal garbage amounts must be decontaminated in a number of way. The waste garbage dumps are full, up to the edge, which overloads combustion preparations. Dumps, suitable for poisonous trash disposal and processing planning are missing.
And so originated a quite new, rather dubious local office of industry: the hreen waste tourism. In road containers and foul-smelling ship bellies lands our mud, in individual the hazardous rubbish hardly to be removed, against foreign prevalence in poorer countries, mainly in the Third World.
In the meantime, there are trash dumps with highly toxic trash 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 required packaging of these consumables should be returned and be recycled.
Experts have calculated that thereby the masses of waste can be relieved yearly with about seven to eight million metric tons of packaging material.
The reasonable solution would be to produce further meaningful packaging.
It is totally strange: On the plastic bottle one finds, for example, no „ green point “, although it is going back to the refiller, up to 40 times again and produces therefore by far less waste 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 customers.
Over this come the trade the originating costs - also count as addition the certified advertisements for the ” green point “ or that the consumers have to pay per packaging, up to 30 cents other. And whether actually everything can be recycled is not sure generally yet.
The laughing winners are the packaging manufacturers, optimistically producing as much as before.
Nearly 30 percent of our household waste consist of packaging of all kind.
Most packaging materials are pointless, environmental-damaging and pricey.
Therefore, we may pay for it three times.
1. with the purchase at the supermarket,
2. when we pay our rubbish disposal fees
3. with our tax money with which trash combustion planning, rubbish transports are financed.
with the combustion of every single metric ton of waste originate in addition circa 4,000 to 5,000 cubic metres of toxic exhaust gases which are blown other or less in the air and are spread out to the close fields, meadows and forests.
Better than any combustion or green recycling is avoiding of rubbish.
II. You can avoid rubbish previously at the purchase
A little packaging IS essential - for hygienic reasons and for the security of the contents.
Nevertheless, mostly the packaging serves only for the purpose of the advertisement or to draw the interest of the customer to the product and to force him to buy additional.
From the goods of the similar kind You should always pick 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 instead of in tins, plastic bottles or non-refundable bottles only in refundable plastic bottles. They can be refilled up to 40 times. For the fabrication 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 fabrication 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. Totally apart from material consumption and energy consumption in the fabrication, they are the most pricey kind of the packaging.
The price lies now and again higher than the contents of the packaging. In addition, fresh food contains much other 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 doesn’t matter what 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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