CRAZY THOUGHTS (II): FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN

When there's no future
how can there be sin
we're the flowers
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your human machine

Quoting the commercially shaped and insanely supported Sex Pistols lyrics, I really belief that flowers can also grow in the dustbin. Actually, I think that a small revolution can be motivated through deep restructuring of rubbish processing system. I’ll try to explain how politicians can change this consumer culture based society by taking simple but firm decisions. The main points of my personal contribution are:

- Apart from the periodical rubbish tax, citizens will have to pay per each rubbish/plastic/glass kilogram produced a certain amount of money.

- How is the state going to control this? The traditional rubbish banks would be replaced by government-controlled buildings, where the rubbish that each family produces will be weighed and the money collected. This money will be logically invested in the research & development of innovative, productive recycling systems.

- The majority of the population would consequently try to reduce their daily rubbish production in order to pay less. As a consequence, people would demand less plastic wrapped products to food&material providers (supermarkets and so on). The capitalist chain production would inevitably suffer a heavy drop.

- The point is that these measures must go by the hand with active implication of population. We must feel part of the plan and participate in it to reduce the impulsive consumerism trend of nowadays.

- We may think that mafias prepared to recollect rubbish would expand throughout. However, this possibility is quite improbable: how are they going to manage to transport and destruct 1.12 Kg rubbish/person? In Gipuzkoa 784000 kilograms of rubbish are produced per day. Only the state can have a network to collect and treat so many kilograms.

After Sid Vicious death, there’s been so much future. In fact, I’ve heard that the Sex Pistols are coming back again (in economical terms there’s no contradiction).

All in all, everything’s a matter of common sense.


VOCABULARY
- Rubbish processing system
- Motivate: impulsar
- Rubbish bank: contenedor de basura