Some months ago in Tirana I saw these advertising posters about the impact of waste and possible ways to recycle it. It is a useful campaign for Albania, but in the current condition of the country it seems to have little sense. I mean there is no differentiated waste disposal and recycling. I have seen only some poor people, mostly Roma, look for aluminium in the waste bins. You can imagine how nice it is to empty trash bags and look for cans in the side of the streets!
Before recycling, we should think to reusing: many things can have multiple functions before being directed to the trash bin. It is usually enough a small manipulation to adapt the object to the new function. In these pictures you can see my personal contribution to the issue.
Here we use bottled water because tap water is not very safe. So I usually buy big 6 liters plastic bottles. From them I created vases for flowers and plants, baskets for fruits and spices, and from smaller bottle a glass for drying forks, knives and spoons...they work very well!
Give a second life! Use your creativity to find out how...I am not very good, but I am sure each one can do his or her part!
Please, if you have any other good ideas, let me know!
2 comments:
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing :-)
Hello,
My name is Mickael Wilmart and I am a social sciences studies engineer on the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). I'm writing you to indicate my blog called "Paris-Tirana, les Balkans et les Sciences Sociales" which should be a useful information resource for you. Its aim is to share social scientific analyses, discussion and comment about the Balkans in general and Albania in particular. My own interests are the history and religious anthropology of Albania but the blog includes references to and discussion of journal articles and other publications on a wide variety of topics. The language of the site is French but abstracts of journal articles are frequently available in English. The adress is : http://mickaelwilmart.blogspot.com.
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