German Sterligov on garbage collection in Russia

Near the metro street 1905 in Moscow. © Olya Manolova/Ridus.ru

We should stop even discussing the issue of garbage collection in Russia. This is an absolutely stupid and meaningless activity. For 7,400 years, there was no problem in any country at all, never anywhere, because all the garbage rotted.

Ever since the damned scientists came up with non-rotting chemicals, garbage collection problems have arisen because the bottles and bags have become plastic and non-retardable. All the talk about the processing of non-rotting garbage is reduced to the fact that it is either burned and poisoned all the surrounding space with terrible poisons and combustion products, or decomposed in different directions: out of sight, somewhere far away (this is called sorting).

This “out of sight” leads to the appearance of polluted fields, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans – everything falls there. The only way to stop the accumulation of non-rotting garbage is to stop its production. The governors of the Russian Federation behave in places like the last rascals, their provinces are increasingly reminiscent of a dumpster and they are spending the state money to create new landfills of MSW as hotbeds of any infection and dirty homeless people. No one wants to take on the responsibility of banning the production and sale of plastic containers and bags, which make up the vast majority of all the garbage that forms the high mountains of landfills. Again, we have to turn to Vladimir Putin. Your word, Comrade Mauser. Stop feeding transnational companies that produce plastic bottles and other types of plastic containers, it should be banned under pain of real criminal punishment. Already, even the Indian state of Delhi, recently considered the dirtiest place on Earth, is shining clean and order, and all thanks to the introduction of criminal penalties for bringing a plastic bottle or plastic bag into the state. Are we worse than Indians?

From the moment of a similar ban in Russia, all questions about the opening of new solid waste sites will be immediately removed, and then only one question will remain: “What to do with those piles of garbage that have already been produced before?” This is already a joyful and hopeful approach to solving the garbage problem in our miserable polluted Russia.

German Sterligov, a peasant from the ass suburbs

Source: www.ridus.ru