Waste Champıons

World Cleanup Day, the world's most comprehensive cleanup action, is a rapidly growing movement in the Netherlands. We hope that this movement is growing at the same speed in all countries. Nearly 40 thousand participants went outside to clean up the waste and the result was not so surprising for us. We would like to talk about the first three rows of collected waste.

Cigarette butts in the first place, cigarette boxes in the second, ready-to-eat food packages in the third place… The increasing waste rate of the last two years belongs to energy drinks boxes. It seems that plastic bags and plastic bottles are not mentioned much in the waste. Well, it is not known whether plastic bags and plastic bottles are the target of the press or only certain circles are not disturbed by them.

We are trying to insist that wastes do not consist only of plastics. What we see on the surface of the sea, and what is in the depths, maybe an ear for a camel, but what is in sight is always guilty. How right is it to attack the products that make our lives easier and that we use in every field with a wrong perspective and wrong perceptions? It is necessary to look carefully at the data obtained in World Cleaning Day. It is necessary to evaluate these data not only as substances but also psychologically. Champion wastes, which are in the top three in the given line, are already a direct threat to human health. Where are the energy drinks in the position of rising waste value in our lives? Perhaps it is necessary to discuss them before the environment.

Considering the data as a raw material apart from the psychological side, it should not be difficult to see that waste is not only made up of plastics, or talking that waste consists only of plastics is a complete indication of blindness or ulterior motives. How many of us know the order of plastic in the decay of materials in nature over the centuries?

Glass Bottle 4000 years

Plastic 1000 years

Metal: 700 years

Battery 300 years

Aluminum 200 years

Knowing plastic for 80 years only gives us the estimated time, it is not a definite period, we think that it is inappropriate to go into details.

The real question to be asked is what do wastes do in nature, how were those wastes disposed of in nature?