Earlier I reported on a trash waterfall on the way to Smangus and the EPA took action to clean it up. I returned after 6 years to see what it looked like now, and was unsurprised to see that nothing at all has changed. It's been years since I Iast reported on a trash waterfall. It's not because I don't see them, it's the opposite. There is a trash waterfall behind literally every mountain farm in Taiwan. There is an even bigger trash waterfall outside every mountain village. I stopped reporting on them because after seeing so many hundreds of trash waterfalls, it becomes so meaningless to even talk about them. Trash is thrown over the side of the mountain into the forest. These are not isolated incidents but rather standard practice. This is not a few bad actors throwing their waste into the forest. Throwing waste into the forest is the accepted trash management policy of farms and villages. The alternative to throwing trash into the forest is burning it which is also common place. The heat in these small fires is not hot enough to break down the toxic chemicals used in electronics, plastics, dyes, and batteries. They go into the air and are breathed, or seep into the soil and further into our food and water supply. Sending a team to go pick up trash at a single trash waterfall is admirable, but will not solve the problem. It's time to offer the countryside the same level of trash services as we have in the city. You might think the cost is high, but the cost of not doing it so much higher. While we're at it we can also think about why we're using so much plastic in the first place.
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8 сен 2024
