As we have alluded to several times recently at The BFD, there are markedly different approaches to environmental issues which seem notably dependent on one’s political philosophy. For instance, the Klimate Kult is fixated on narcissistic public protest almost entirely dissociated from empirical reality, while offering no solutions other than vague, warmed-over Marxist revolutionary rhetoric. Jacinda Ardern grandstands at the UN, while deceitfully pulling a political swifty which guarantees that New Zealand’s emissions will grow, unabated. E-NGOs like Greenpeace react to an at least real problem – ocean plastic waste – with authoritarian demands that completely fail to address the actual culprits.
On the other hand, the United States is derided for refusing to sign up for, or abandoning, the plethora of globalist “agreements” and “protocols” from Kyoto to Paris. Yet, the US’ emissions have fallen dramatically. The Morrison government is committed to finding technological and economic solutions, especially to pressing environmental issues such as plastic.
Even in Australia, while the Morrison government is spruiking potentially revolutionary, commercially viable, recycling technologies, the Victorian government is proposing a nightmare, Orwellian system of overbearing bureaucracy and inefficiency.
A five-coloured rainbow of daily rubbish duties for the householder; constant sorting in the basement; living under the threat of having your garbage left behind because you failed to follow the rules; being bossed about by a council worker in hi-vis rejecting your rubbish; rules that your garbage must be in transparent plastic to allow inspection, or costly biodegradable bags for organic waste; and colour coding that is an immutable law unto itself.
In addition to daily duties for household waste there are the supplementary collection days for old clothing and large items and garden waste that can take months to organise.
What the writer is describing above is the ghastly regime imposed on households by some Italian councils. It’s a nightmare of Byzantine complexity that creates endless headaches for households, spiralling costs and only leads to more garbage. Naturally, the socialist Andrews government is enamoured of the idea.
Last Monday’s report from Infrastructure Victoria that sees a future for Melburnians separating materials into organics, plastics, paper and cardboard, glass, metals and “regular” waste is part of a global shift to recycling and sorting by the householder to make the rubbish handlers’ job easier.
Which is exactly the system they have introduced in Italy.
Five separate rubbish bins; every household must put out or bring in a rubbish bin every day of the week and spend every evening sorting the rubbish to avoid contamination that would see collectors leave it behind.
There are five categories of rubbish, each with their own colour-coded bin, which must have its own designated bin-liner of a specified type […] of course, all bins can’t be collected on the same day. Each is collected on a set day of the week.
But because organic waste has to be collected more often, the collection days shift and you must keep a daily calendar. No bin is collected on Sunday but you need to put one out Sunday night.
[…] my neighbours […] had their rubbish rejected three days in a row because they used black plastic bags.
[…] The cumulative result of rejected rubbish, a lack of public bins, confusion over categories and a reluctance to store putrid rubbish is that sneaky piles of trash appear around the place, and in the rural areas woodstoves and fires have the distinct smell of burning plastic.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/recycling-plan-a-load-of-rubbish
Sounds like exactly the kind of results-driven efficiency governments are renowned for.
We just need more of it, then everything will be perfect.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/10/australian-entrepreneurs-tackle-real-environmental-problems/ https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/10/the-art-of-saying-little-doing-much/ https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/09/morrison-aims-to-actually-fix-the-environment-instead-of-screeching-about-climate-change/
