Today, all residents of the CIS countries practically live in natural garbage dumps. Picnic places are very popular, where it was so nice to relax until they were littered with garbage. These are roadsides. These are slopes of railway embankments along which country sites are located. And there are many more such "reserved" places. Trash accumulates in tons. The issue of disposal and use of it is very acute today.
Instruction manual
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Stop throwing away something that might still be useful to you, and don’t buy what you don’t need at all.
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Classify garbage by type: food waste, plastic, glass. And also - garbage subject to special disposal (batteries, accumulators, fluorescent lamps, mercury thermometers, etc.). For each type of garbage, make a separate waste bin. Or dividing all the garbage into two large groups: organic garbage or inorganic garbage, and within these groups install subspecies. For example, organic garbage that is destroyed by relatively quick decay: food waste, crop residues, etc. Classification and collection of garbage by type will give you the opportunity to analyze its volumes and determine what and how can be recycled from it.
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Think about how you personally can use the trash. For example, let food waste feed livestock or process it into organic fertilizers in compost pits (if you have a land plot, of course). Hand over paper and old things from natural fabrics to waste paper collection points, metal - to scrap metal collection points. Today, plastic reception centers have already appeared in many cities. You will receive small money, but you will do a good deed worthy of a 21st century resident. The use of car tires will help to make, for example, a playground or a front garden near the house - it is quite possible to fence them with a fence of used tires, painting the tires in different colors. In addition, there are technologies that make it possible to produce special coatings from old tires that also cover playgrounds. At such sites, children are not afraid to fall - because they frolic on rubber mats.
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Come up with a new life for old things. Learn, for example, technology "patchwork" - weaving or sewing from old shreds. Create works of art! For example, Catherine Spence is a sculptor who uses garbage in her works. Build a house out of the trash like Dan Phillips.
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