The scale of the problem is so vast that for the foreseeable future, no amount of robots, smart dumpsters or Ubers for trash can solve it. Even green-minded California is struggling. Despite its goal of recycling, composting or reducing 75% of its trash by 2020, Californians recycled less in 2017 than any time since measurement began in 2011.
WSJ
The Earth ain't filled with garbage; it is treasure, to be sure.
If you know how to sell it, it will give you profit pure.
So what if it is smelly or has toxic properties?
When marketed with wisdom is is bound all folk to please.
I just don't care if China doesn't want our junk no more.
I suggest that Amazon now start a special store:
A store of 'antiques' and all things we now call gently used.
An online shop where P.T. Barnum and going Green are fused.
Used batteries are now become new pieces for chess games;
plastic straws are perfect for creating picture frames.
A toilet bowl that's cracked and brown is derelict no more;
it's a songbird feeder at an online heirloom store.
Soggy Pampers by the ton? No need for getting chuff;
with just a little tweaking they will make good chewing snuff.
Bottles, bottles, everywhere, of plastic or of glass;
Cover 'em with salt as munchies for those smoking grass.
Engine parts and sardine cans and cotton swabs all bent;
they will build skyscrapers when mixed in with fresh cement.
Or how about a currency that's based on useless trash?
Won't that set the bankers teeth on edge and make them gnash!
Remember Noddy Boffin, a crude character in Dickens,
who made of dust heaps treasure troves with very heavy pickins.
If we have not the genius to sell garbage, or the gall --
As last resort we'll use it for to build old Trump's big Wall.
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