Normally the garbage-truck comes
every two weeks to empty our paper, bottle/can garbage container.
We're lucky, when available we buy unpacked products, eat most
vegetables from our own organic garden and buy our meet from our
(farmer) neighbors.
But there are always some things that you cannot buy without packaging. Water for example, I know there are many people who believe in drinking water from the tap but personally I think water has a taste. There is water I like to drink and water which I find absolutely undrinkable.
Why this introduction?
French fishermen are blocking French harbors because they find oil prices too high and they demand a compensation from the government. The garbage-services are on strike because they don't wanna hear from the new retirement arrangements announced by the Sarkozy government.
As a result the paper, bottle/can garbage container hasn't been emptied for 6 weeks. And now it's full. The question rises, where to go with all the paper and plastic bottles for the next two weeks?
Burn it? -> Stinks, is bad for your health, pollutes the air.
Dig a hole in the ground and throw it in? -> And then what? Wait for 7 to 7000 years until the garbage will have decomposed?
Throw it out of the car window as they do in Naples? -> Mmm, Berlusconi and Sarkozy both share the same lack of creativity. And I don't really fancy a army guarded dumping ground either.
So what about compressing, reducing? If we could already reduce the volume of our recyclable waste. That would mean that garbage trucks could transport more garbage and wouldn't need any additional energy to compress it in the truck.
In the video below you can see the Greencoach trying out different methods to reduce the paper, bottle/can garbage volume ...
It's OK to have a laugh and if you look to the end you even find a better solution!
But there are always some things that you cannot buy without packaging. Water for example, I know there are many people who believe in drinking water from the tap but personally I think water has a taste. There is water I like to drink and water which I find absolutely undrinkable.
Why this introduction?
French fishermen are blocking French harbors because they find oil prices too high and they demand a compensation from the government. The garbage-services are on strike because they don't wanna hear from the new retirement arrangements announced by the Sarkozy government.
As a result the paper, bottle/can garbage container hasn't been emptied for 6 weeks. And now it's full. The question rises, where to go with all the paper and plastic bottles for the next two weeks?
Burn it? -> Stinks, is bad for your health, pollutes the air.
Dig a hole in the ground and throw it in? -> And then what? Wait for 7 to 7000 years until the garbage will have decomposed?
Throw it out of the car window as they do in Naples? -> Mmm, Berlusconi and Sarkozy both share the same lack of creativity. And I don't really fancy a army guarded dumping ground either.
So what about compressing, reducing? If we could already reduce the volume of our recyclable waste. That would mean that garbage trucks could transport more garbage and wouldn't need any additional energy to compress it in the truck.
In the video below you can see the Greencoach trying out different methods to reduce the paper, bottle/can garbage volume ...
It's OK to have a laugh and if you look to the end you even find a better solution!
This could be a more interesting solution ...
http://www.bigbellysolar.com/products/recycle.html
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