My idea to change the world
- 1. My idea to change the world My main change the world idea is to show how any type of waste can be 100% available to be re-used. First there has to be some change in education, create habits, it is easier to work in this field with little children than to work with adults, just because adults have their own habits and customs. This new kind of education has to teach first of all, that material synthetic things are not as important as natural things (natural things that come from environmentally and socially friendly resource extraction, production, distribution and waste) , a new method of buying, buy for necessity not for pleasure and when you are certain that you need to buy that product ask yourself: 多where did this come from?, 多does this produce a high impact in its resource extraction, production and distribution? 多did this affect the region of the fabric where is produced?, 多did this gave a decent kind of work to the people of the region?, 多how many time is this going to last?, 多what is going to happen when its productive life is done?, first we have to change our way of looking things as disposable things that have short life times and start to seeing them as gifts of nature, is the same thing when someone borrows you something, you have to return it the same way they gave it to you. Second of all governments have to start making supporting campaigns to this new kind of living, of buying (although it can take years, or centuries but if we continue this kind of consuming the world is not going to last much longer), they have to make creative ways of rewarding people or to punishing people for their ecological actions, an example is in Germany, they have vending machines that receive empty clean plastic bottles and pay in return the price of the bottle, this way people begin to recycle in a different way, in other hand, in Russia they have a different method, there are machines that give you a metro ticket for 20 squats, this way Russian government is supporting people to exercise and fights the over-weight, a real medical issue in developed countries. Third of all, developing countries need to look up to countries like Sweden where they had to import waste from Norway due to their way of recycling, Sweden government began with recycling, reusing and reducing campaigns decades ago at first it was not easy, but after years of life changing habits they began to see the results, an average Swedish pulls apart batteries from glass, cardboard and plastic waste, they also use radiators to warm the water, Sweden exploits 96% of their solid waste in energy production and the other 4 % that definitely cannot be re-used goes to landfills, their 60 bus fleet is all fed with this energy their wastes provides, Boras citizens pay 50% less for energy bills and 20% less in the public transport ticket, their solid waste management its so effective that their only problem is they are running out of energy resources. In the United Kingdom the government has began to reward people who recycle because of a new imposed rate, this way recycling rates has raised significant figures. We cannot pretend to see the change tomorrow, a change can take years, all we can do is have patience and lots and lots of dedication, love for our planet and love for our future. Silvia Paola S叩nchez Gonz叩lez 229508