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Waste management is a huge issue in the developing world. During my world trip, I observed that even a remote fisherman island in the middle of nowhere has a lo
by roadbeats 8y ago
Waste management is a huge issue in the developing world. During my world trip, I observed that even a remote fisherman island in the middle of nowhere has a lot of plastic thrash dumped into the nature. It might be hard to believe for you, but here are some observations I had:
* Most people don't even know difference between plastic and compost thrash.
* Most governments in developing world are dysfunctional. They can't organize for collecting thrash.
I wonder; would it be possible to enable waste management entrepreneurs all around the world with an app? Could people get paid for cleaning up thrash ?
- loceng 8y agoUntil a society experiences negative consequences of environmental pollution (generally a long-term but sometimes a short-time issue) then there's no incentive or impetus to not just dump things anywhere. Part of the solution is only allowing goods to be supplied in certain packaging. Not creating waste is the best solution.
- XorNot 8y agoTo my mind waste is all about finding a way to make this: https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/ https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/ profitable enough that people are fighting over garbage pickup. The most amazing thing to me when I got a kitchen garbage disposal was that once you take the organics out, almost all my trash is just plastic in one form another, and paper.