Boon or bane?
Meanwhile even the everlasting backwoodsman should have understood, that each and every one of us are our environment deadly enemies. We know it all from our home countries: we experienced a garbage collection fee. Was it a bane for us? No, but those creatures, who act unlawfully by throwing their garbage at any corner of their surroundings are the scourge. I better don’t put it into words, what I feel, if I walk around and see such things even in my village - and even, we have a garbage collection twice a week FOR FREE! We don’t know, how long it will be for free.
Garbage is expensive. As a result many other nations have implemented innumerable unequivocal laws and fees. Public fees are never popular, especially if their true expenditure appears questionable. Waste treatment (plants), disposal, waste composting (questionable in a tropical country!), trashcans, incineration plants or garbage dressing equipments will remain as foreign on a white sheet of paper or as a wonderful but unrhymed and implausible idea in the heads of some environmentalists…
As an expat living in the Philippines I am sure,that a proposed garbage collection fee will never become a burden of my household. And, of course, business establishments should pay appropriate and reasonable fees.
Boon or bane?
It will be a boon, if the proceeds of the garbage collectors will really used to buy compactors or garbage trucks. It will be a boon, if the garbage collector could distribute the people with a regular schedule, and keep the term.
We as expats, but also tourists don’t like garbage at any corner or evil-smelling plastic- and rubber burning heaps.
Boon or bane regarding fees on garbage collections? What DO YOU think, my dear reader?
Hi Klaus yes it’s big problem the garbage for all country
but really I don’t know in philippines there is program
for garbage.
Hi Zois, thanks for stopping by. There are many programs and ideas for the Philippines. But it’s hard to implement here…
Hi Klaus - Trash collection is one of those ‘big-deals’ for most people. It’s one thing I think anybody would be happy to pay a fee for as long as it’s, you know, actually done. Where there’s muck, there’s gold, as they say. If the government can’t do it right, maybe some inspired individual can. Yes, it’s dirty work, and nobody likes to do it, especially at a cheap wage, but it’s one of those things that has to be done. There’s a great TV program on in the US called ‘Dirty Jobs’ that focuses on people who, day to day, do jobs that most of us would turn our noses up at. But, in most cases, these people are self-employed entrepreneurs who make a very nice living cleaning up other peoples messes. The kind of stuff even governments have a hard time hiring people to do. Maybe they should just sub-contract this job out to people such as this.
Hi RichardInSC, thanks again for stopping by. You gave us some good ideas here. We would also support “those inspired individuals’, if we could find them here. Now we wish and pray for the best in our surroundings here.
[...] Boon or bane? We know it all from our home countries: we experienced a garbage collection fee. Was it a bane for us? No, but those creatures, who act unlawfully by throwing their garbage at any corner of their surroundings are the scourge. … [...]