This is my first post this year and I am glad it is for a good Cause!
Before I joined LG Connect, I never thought much about recycling! Like! Why do I have to waste my time collecting waste products?
Until I met my friend @Sagir (who I plan on ******* soon by the way ) who made a point I never forgot; âIf plastic pollution continue at this rate, soon, there will be more plastics in the ocean than there are fishesâ.
Then, I met @ogewuru who had exchanged his waste for money. So, I began keeping my plastics, cartons, etc.! Anyone who knows me, knows I drink water a lot! So, instead of discarding the bottles, I collected them back into their packs and carefully stacked them in a corner, I kept the cartons of goods sold, bottles from my used olive oil, etc.
On the 6th of January, 2023, I decided to let go of them by shipping them off to a recycling center, Well, I did and made some money from it!
Recycling made easy in four steps!
Keep and stack away all items; Paper, plastic, books ruined by water or you have no need of, bottles, bottled water bags or wraps (you know bottled water is packed in 12 or 6 or 24), even those are being recycled
Sort through the waste according to types; Pet bottles (all pet bottles are sorted together), all other kind of plastics (cream, kegs, etc.), bottles, cartons, used books
Ship to the recycling/final sorting center
The waste gets weighed, you are paid according to the weight
Please tell me one thing you have learnt from LG Connect and how you have implemented it in your own life in the commentsâŚ
Thank you for this post, @Ewaade_3A , and thanks to my friend @Sagir too.
This is a good step, and it reminds me of when I was 8. 55 years ago people in Italy was not caring so much about waste, and less about recycling. There was a small bar in the beach, where to buy something to drink, or an ice cream. Everything was sold in glass bottles, abandoned empty all around the beach Everything was sold in glass bottles, which were then left empty all around the beach. The story begins with âif you bring 10 empty bottles back to the bar, Iâll offer you an ice creamâ. My friend and I jump into action, and within 20 minutes we were in front of the bar, with 10 empty bottles each. Within a few days there were no more abandoned bottles for hundreds of meters around the bar. Everyone had seen these two kids picking up the bottles, so instead of abandoning them, now they kept the bottles under the umbrella, and when we passed they delivered them to us.
Thatâs how I learnt that the waste has a value.
Pay for collecting waste is a great starting point to learn the value of what has no value. Thanks again for this post, I love it
This is fantastic, @Ewaade_3A . Some States in the US will have a surcharge on plastic, aluminum, or glass bottles that you get paid back when you turn them in. Where I live, we actually pay the City to come and collect our recyclables. There are places to cash in aluminum, glass, and metals, but the return is rather low for a normal householdâs consumption.
Can we get clarification on what you are planning on doing to @Sagir , by the way? For some reason Connect replaced the verb with ****. Iâm assuming the AI moderator programs mistook a Nigerian phrase for âhandshakeâ or âHigh Fiveâ as something else .
Thank you for sharing @Ewaade_3A and indeed this is one of the perks of being in Connect and learning, as well as implementing all those beneficial and important things in life. For many of us, recycling is now part of our daily lives, although sadly itâs not always the case. Because of my line of work (thanks to endless meetings at the UN and other platforms), I have a lot of exposure to what we need to do to keep our planet safe and clean. Recycling is indeed one of the ways to do so.
Back home in Indonesia, we have many programs which encourage people to do the recycling. We also have âbank sampahâ or literally translated as garbage bank, which helps with the collection and processing of recyclable items, as well as paying those who bring those items. There are many other programs in line with this as well. Hopefully, it will help the environment.
@ErmesT ahahah! I can imagine an 8 year old Ermes doing that! I cut most part of the videos away from my GIF else you would have seen my nieces and nephew. 6, 8, 8 and 9 sorting through the waste. Mine was very neat though since they were items I had used myself.
From my experience, I got to discover the most valuable was the Goya Olive Oil Bottles and this brings us to another topic; âCounterfeitingâ.
In recent times, I have realized that; there is an abundance of counterfeit Olive oil bottles and as some claim; âCounterfeit Coca colaâ.
So, do you think; recycling can in fact become a menace? I know of a particular company that changes their packaging design ever so often due to counterfeit products.
Thanks for sharing with me, I smiled reading your response. I remember when I wanted to have my âClean the Worldâ Meeting, you had a chat with me on what happens to plastics when they get into the ocean.
Thanks for all you do and greetings to your equally amazing wife @AntonellaGr
I fully agree with you⌠âWasteâ has a value.
To me, controlling Waste is a moral responsibility of a citizen; of course, while we run a day, we, knowingly or unknowingly create different types of waste.
I strongly believe that over a period of time, the hygiene will not be limited to the walls of our homeâŚit will be a way of life.
And for your information, in India, we need to pay a monthly fee to the local government for the removal of waste; of course, you are permitted to sell it - but in practical life, it becomes difficult - the expense will be more than the income.
but the return is rather low for a normal householdâs consumption
This is very true, only the recycling centers make the huge profit on those items.
I masked what I am going to do with Sagir with the **** myself, it wasnât the AI, I remembered how he laughs and decided to mask what I will do with him, so, he âdoesnât see me comingâ
One thing I like about your country is the Government Intervention programs. I was about to say; "here, I do not know of any Government recycling plants before I remembered I saw the âLAWMAâ (Lagos state Waste Management Agency) on the truck that came to pick up some of the wastes from the manâs center Hmmm. I will sure find out more about this.
Thanks for sharing, Indah. You know you are like a burst of sunlight! I am always happy to read from you. hugs and kisses! @indahnuria
p.s. My favorite photo of you is of you in the Mukenah, I will send you the one I have, I canât get over the smile
Everywhere, you pay for the Government to collect your waste, it is same here. It is individuals who choose to recycle, like I had to stack away mine over months, it wasnât so much about the money for me but trying out to see if I could actually do it, I was testing my strenght. I am glad I was able to accomplish it @TravellerG
Hey @Ewaade_3A you just reminded me of @Vera_chidera She was calling me out to collect plastics across Lekki/Ajah as part of her campaign to recycle plastics. I had to get my mom involved, now she keeps plastics and wait for them to be picked up instead of sending them to the dustbin.
Prior to that, I have been an advocate of a sustainable environment. Hosted World Environment Day since I was in high school. In 2018, I received a UN Recognition.
There is the Kids Beach Garden which I support and they collect trash and plastics on the Lekki Beach.
This is good, do let us know how it goes. I will follow your recycle journey here. Good luck!
Recycling is indeed our responsibility if not obligation. Specially the tourist spots and picnic spots, these places often get ignored when thinking about garbage or waste or waste management. Now when everyone is talking about sustainability and recycling, people tend to incline more towards this. My simple theory is that why should we wait for something like this to happen? Why we wait for someone to come and do garbage for us? We need more and more initiatives like this even if they are for not getting anything in return
@Ewaade_3A good job coming forward with this idea.
exactly! I am grateful for the Local Guides who talk about this a lot and who educate others about the dangers of poor waste management.
I guess many people do so little because they are not properly informed. The more information they have at their fingertips, the better they get. Thanks for sharing @Bilal_shaikh
Recycling is different in every country, @Ewaade_3A , and it is just the first, but very important, step of the 6R.
Waste management is a cost, but not recycling it costs more, because a lot the products we use cannot be recycled.
Actually I try to reduce the amount of things that I Recycle, trying to (2) Re-use what I have and to (3) Reduce the use of plastic.
Counterfeit is a minor issue. What is more impressive in my opinion is the cost of the packaging. Do you know that more than 50 of the cost of an industrial product (food, drink) is the cost of the package?
When possible, I (4) Refuse to buy packaged products, preferring the product of the Local market or what I can produce by myself (this summer I will have a vegetable garden ready).
Usually I buy olive oil from the producers. They deliver it in a 5 or 10 liters can, and then I re-use my glass bottles to bottle it
I am the author of the Sixth one. I have been inspired by the creativity of this community to imagine how, to change the world, we need the creativity and the capacity of the young generations to think out of the box.
) who made a point I never forgot; âIf plastic pollution continue at this rate, soon, there will be more plastics in the ocean than there are fishesâ.
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Hmmm. I will sure find out more about this.
well done.