ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT

 What is Zero Waste?

There is an urgent need of setting a new goal for how we live in the world; one that aims to reduce what we trash in landfills and incinerators to zero and to rebuild our local economies in support of community health, sustainability, and justice. This is where zero-waste management comes in. 

So what really is zero waste?

At its most basic level, zero waste is about significantly reducing (and eventually completely eliminating) the amount of resources that we send to disposal. Most of what we now waste can be safely and economically recycled, reused, composted, or turned into biogas through anaerobic digestion. We also need to simply use fewer disposable products and redesign our products so that they are toxic-free and built to last. 

But zero waste is about much more.

It’s really about redefining the system. We currently live in an economy where we take resources from the earth and then dump them in a giant hole in the ground (back to the earth). 

The goal of zero waste is to move to an economy where we write trash out of existence. So that there is no trash in nature. Instead of discarding resources, we create a system where all resources can be resumed fully back into the system.

We can hence conclude that, Zero Waste is a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of practical tools seeking to eliminate waste, not manage it. 

A huge thanks to all those who commented from on our Facebook page. Here is their your takes on Zero Waste: 

Resom Tesfamariam -

I think the concept of zero waste is clear, the challenge is how to start practicing it? What institution is needed? What system has to be install? Expertise required? Capital and what is the source of capital? etc. Are the most challenging issues in developing countries.

Rashidah Aasim Asad - 

Using environmentally friendly products and we recycle

Use or Abuse of Farming?

"Green Movement" A Scam, 2020 Trend or Global Crisis," P.1

Bleak History or Future? P.2

In order to understand this article thoroughly, please review part 1 and 2. As we discussed in, Bleak History or Future, how America's waters, land, and air got damaged. I would like to outline a bit more detailed on machine usage in farming in this article.

While on the flip side, many countries such as Mexico, India, Pakistan, and majority African countries, were still using old methods of farming, (some areas still continue to use old method of farming), while majority of European countries and North America quickly adapted to machine use in the fields. 

The trend moved to machine use for several reasons: 

• Less men on the field =  Spend less $$$
• Faster work done
• Large acres got done faster
• Faster growth of crops

Putting all this on the table was helpful to farmers and agriculture. Many profit organizations wanted agriculture business as well. 

Abuse

• Various kinds of machines and instruments started appearing, which hurt the air with their fumes, noise pollution started, and hurt the crops as some machines worked while others failed. 
• Many options of pesticides were introduced, which again took the turn of hurting crops, animals, air, and water. 
• More land was provided for better "farming" more business, which took many forests out and took away homes of many animals ie bears, foxes, wolf, and majority of sea animals, just to name a few.
• Animal farming turned into business in itself, by feeding animals medication for strong, lean and muscular body organs, skinning started for clothes and accessories, teeth for jewelry and international trade, nails became status of the society, meat intake became wealthy symbol, hunting became a sport, and fighting animal to animal a game. 
• In the name of freedom, garbage was disposed by individuals, businesses, factories, farmers, and manufacturing plants into waters and land.

One so-called better opportunity for society became ten-fold steps backwards for the environment

Bleak History or Future?

In the last post, "Green Movement" A Scam, 2020 Trend or Global Crisis, we stated in order to understand the actual definition, we need to look at the history. So without further delay let's go back in time!

Around 1492 and 1502, Columbus discovered America, per Wikipedia, Voice of America, and many other sources. Yet due to the size of the continent, people, and land, The New World, was itself strange to explorers of that time, especially to the European explorers. 

When European people started migrating to America's, they found Native Americans to be different in many aspects such as their language, dress, skin color, body types, beliefs, food, and etc.  Native Americans have been living on this land for 1,000's of years if not 10,000's of years, historically speaking, but the way they lived was completely different from Europeans. They relied heavily on taking care of the land, air and water. To many Native Americans tribes, their belief was (is) if you hurt/damage the nature, you are hurting the dead/spirits, because when one dies, their body becomes part of nature. 

In British, the belief and the norm was different; human beings are on the top of the chain. Human beings have the power to do whatever they want, which is true, but with every action there is a reaction. They migrated to Americas and took over without learning how to handle the new land. Slavery was brought over to do menial and labor jobs, Manufacturing took over, factories started popping all over without proper regulations, and before long cars took over the country. 

As there is a saying, we all learn from our mistakes, after all we are just human beings, not gods. Before the laws got enforced, our waters were already damaged with garbage, oil spills, manufacturing wastes,  and to make matters worse, huge organizations started lobbying protection against the nature in the name of creating jobs, cheap products, and "throw away after one use."

We let that slide and now so much of our environment has become extremely damaged, which is negatively effecting the air we breath, the foods we eat (especially sea food), moreover, we have taken everything for granted without realizing what we have today may not be there tomorrow.