Garbage

Two days ago, I went to Rumah Perubahan, a place to recycle garbage, to see weather we, Yasashii World can cooperate with them or not. As Yasashii World recycle plastic in a small amount, we can’t deal with this mountain of garbage but we would like to make sure that if people keep on throwing garbage without categorizing, the garbage will be a huge problem, and it is a huge one..  not only because we can’t use the good plastic anymore but because:

1. It takes time to categorize the garbage between the organic one, the plastic one, paper one and the one that can not be recycled.
2. The organic waste will decay and will cast out a terrible smell….
3. Because of the organic waste, we can not recycle the paper garbage anymore
4. We have to use water and soap to clean the plastic garbage which mean it will cost a lot …. either money, time and energy

When we see the people categorizing the garbage, there was a pain in my heart that made me think how to solve this garbage problem…. As you can see, we always categorize garbage before throwing it out. Paper, plastic, organic and the miscellaneous one. The results are:

1. It was organized already, the garbage man doesn’t have to waste his time categorizing
2. The organic waste won’t make other garbage dirty and smelly
3. We still can recycle the paper
4. We don’t have to spend our time, money and energy to clean the plastic to be recycled…

So there is a huge difference between categorizing and not categorizing…. We’re planning to educate, educate and educate the young generation in Indonesia to start categorizing garbage…. other wise, it will be too late,… it is now to make the change….

Last week, I saw a beautiful program about recycling… about how our paper will stay the same when you throw it away on the ground for 30 years. It is something that is surprising because we, people, tend to think that it’s ok to throw away paper to the ground, but when an American researcher is doing a research about this, the result is really different… it stayed the same!

Can you imagine, our world can be a mountain of garbage if we don’t do anything,…. So there is one thing we can do,… stop throwing our books away…

If you have books that you want to throw away, please send it to me at Jl. Mangga Dua Raya No 8, Gedung WTC Mangga Dua Lt UG blok D /57, Jakarta 14430…. Your book can be a treasure for those who can not afford to go to school. We are going to collect books from all over places and going to make a library in a poor area, a place where children really need education but could not afford the tuition fee….

By doing this, I believe we’re doing a good thing for the environment, while on the other side, we help the educational level of children in the poor area. Education is children’s right and we’re trying to help as long as we can….

We’re looking for your books….. don’t throw them away, please….

We’re thinking more to do with the plastic garbage….

There are many plastic garbage we can’t use for the book,… plastic from bread, from candy, from packaging, from cracker, etc…. what should we do with these plastic garbages?

After a deep thinking, we’re making more baby lines using this…. We cut these plastic into small pieces, … chop chop chop…. and we try to make educational toys using this garbages… There you go…. we put this slices of plastic garbage into the doll… It is not as cottony as usual,… but at least we try to put a plus to the garbage so that the plastic will not end in the water pipe line, or in the river… Just think if we can sell as many as possible doll using plastic garbage, how much plastic garbages got the “plus” point? How much plastic garbage being transferred from the garbage bin into the doll… it will decrease the content of national garbage volume!

In order to learn something, we don’t have to use books all the time. Of course books can give us information, but there is another way to learn something by stimulating our senses.