nauczyciel
1 Sep 2007 / #1
It seems that just about everyday, i see people come to the place outside my flat that has a view of the city. They come to look at the city and decide to clean out their car. Taxi drivers are the worst offenders. Throwing bags of garbage, beer bottles, cans, out into the bushes just 1.5 meters from their car.
I wish I could speak good enough Polish to yell at them to go pick it up. But I guess the Neste and Tesco only 100 meters away is too far to drive to put in the garbage cans there.
At this moment I'm watching 1 guy and 2 girls at their car, and seen them toss 2 bags onto the bushes, with 1 Heineken & 1 RedBull can.
And as I take weekly bike rides through the forests around my city, I am seeing more and more piles of garbage being dropped off in it.
As I take my garbage and recycling out over the past few months, I notice that no one cares to recycle. I opened up the garbage bin to find loads of plastic water bottles, beer bottles and cans, and cardboard boxes & paper stuffed into it. But only 1-2 meters away there are GLASS, METAL, PLASTIC and PAPER bins for recycling. Sheer laziness.
Back home in Canada, we have to pay a deposit on all glass, plastic, tetrapak containers, and we get that money back when we, or someone else, returns them. So maybe if something like this would be instituted in PL, then it would be an incentive for ppl to return them, and keep loads of items out of the landfills. Binners here would be making a fortune!!
I am not saying that this behaviour is limited to Poland. It's just when you start to look for something, you see it more and more.
To do my part at work, I started a recycling program in my school. We have separate baskets for plastic cups and waste paper/paper cups in each classroom and only 1 main bin for all other items in the office.
So far it seems to be working well.
I take the items to the recycle bins a few blocks away.
I wish I could speak good enough Polish to yell at them to go pick it up. But I guess the Neste and Tesco only 100 meters away is too far to drive to put in the garbage cans there.
At this moment I'm watching 1 guy and 2 girls at their car, and seen them toss 2 bags onto the bushes, with 1 Heineken & 1 RedBull can.
And as I take weekly bike rides through the forests around my city, I am seeing more and more piles of garbage being dropped off in it.
As I take my garbage and recycling out over the past few months, I notice that no one cares to recycle. I opened up the garbage bin to find loads of plastic water bottles, beer bottles and cans, and cardboard boxes & paper stuffed into it. But only 1-2 meters away there are GLASS, METAL, PLASTIC and PAPER bins for recycling. Sheer laziness.
Back home in Canada, we have to pay a deposit on all glass, plastic, tetrapak containers, and we get that money back when we, or someone else, returns them. So maybe if something like this would be instituted in PL, then it would be an incentive for ppl to return them, and keep loads of items out of the landfills. Binners here would be making a fortune!!
I am not saying that this behaviour is limited to Poland. It's just when you start to look for something, you see it more and more.
To do my part at work, I started a recycling program in my school. We have separate baskets for plastic cups and waste paper/paper cups in each classroom and only 1 main bin for all other items in the office.
So far it seems to be working well.
I take the items to the recycle bins a few blocks away.