Here's the fundamental truth. The biggest predictor of waste is wealth.
The wealthier a nation is, the more wasteful it is.
The wealthier a nation is, the more wasteful it is.
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FIFTH Film of E-Waste Samaritans This Week
Thanks to Waste and Recycling News for adding a 5th film to the list of "E-Waste Samaritans" this week. The teaser video on Vimeo for the documentary "Zabaleen" rounds out a busy week for investigation of the crime of the decade - Recycling While Brown. In Zabaleen, director Justin Kramer digs into the social, political and economic divide inside Egypt's own have-and-have-not society.
WRN Editor John Campanelli not only found this Fifth video of the week on Recycling Samaritans, but also by pens a very accessible Editorial, Film reveals the story of Egyptian trash collectors. Campanelli interviews the director of the documentary, Justin Kramer, by telephone to make sure that his own "aha" moment he obviously experiences is clear to all readers. (Disclosure: WRN also reprinted my modest proposal post on "A-Waste" this week, so far the highest hit count of the weekly publication.)
Campanelli keeps it simple and not political. Appreciate garbage people and recyclers. They could be heroes. While the editorial maintains WRN as an apolitical, unbiased interviewer, Campanelli gets makes the Brown Recyclers' story to be an environmentalists story, an underdog's story, a refreshing change from the "primitive toxic" story.
WRN Editor John Campanelli not only found this Fifth video of the week on Recycling Samaritans, but also by pens a very accessible Editorial, Film reveals the story of Egyptian trash collectors. Campanelli interviews the director of the documentary, Justin Kramer, by telephone to make sure that his own "aha" moment he obviously experiences is clear to all readers. (Disclosure: WRN also reprinted my modest proposal post on "A-Waste" this week, so far the highest hit count of the weekly publication.) Campanelli keeps it simple and not political. Appreciate garbage people and recyclers. They could be heroes. While the editorial maintains WRN as an apolitical, unbiased interviewer, Campanelli gets makes the Brown Recyclers' story to be an environmentalists story, an underdog's story, a refreshing change from the "primitive toxic" story.
""The general view is that these people are what they handle," said Kramer. "Most people, especially younger people, look at them as just disgusting. They don´t see the good that they are doing."
The good is an astonishing diversion rate. The Zabaleen are able to recycle or reuse 80% of what they collect. The organic waste becomes feed for their livestock. The paper, plastic and metal go to recyclers.
"The sustainability of these people is completely off the charts," said Kramer. "They don´t waste anything."
The citizens of Cairo didn´t realize the service these people provided until 2009, when, in the wake of a swine flu scare, the government ordered the slaughter of all the Zabaleen´s pigs – hundreds of thousands of animals.
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