How our perception of waste shapes our reality

Recently, a sheet was taken to my house Nuclear waste servicesThe company which is overseeing the final disposal of some of the most dangerous waste. This reminded me that the small village in which I live in Cumbria is one of the three proposed places for burial of nuclear waste. If felt, it will be a site that should be at least safe and safe 100,000 years,

We make markers around a time, around which we otherwise plan our lives (birthdays, holidays, anniversary and so on) look almost infinite small. This presents us a challenge for any effort to owe such waste to us.

When you think about waste, you probably imagine the survivor of your everyday experience. Due to their closeness with our daily life, cultural historians like me can learn a lot from such remaining history.

Contemporary artists Michael Landi And in the year-time exhibition of the history of the European Union house, curator, dumpThis everyday aspect of waste has also been detected.

But amidst such extremes of everyday life and abstract future, we can find waste everywhere. After thinking about more than two decades What is really garbage And what we can learn from this, I have learned that garbage, as a thing, is always completely determined from an idea, a problem, a human point of view.

There is no waste in nature. And what is useless in human life only lives, if it cannot be reused or can be re -configured for human ends or can be absorbed by nature.

Contemporary waste

If we can say that nuclear waste was the development of the 20th century, it is clear that we can think of waste that it is especially through historical forms. An example of the 21st century waste is what we now unknowingly produce. This data arises from waste, technologies and media platforms that now facilitates our work and leisure time, cut and recycled by a mob of corporate, business, government and other interests. Like this Will beat usBut they are more or less invisible to us.

What can we learn from this, as I search in my new book, Garbage ideaIt is not only that there are forms of waste in certain times or places, but this waste is a very contemporary event. It is always an idea that is taking new looks, while at the same time all exist in pre -pre -forms.

In response to consumer society in response to a new waste consciousness and new packaging wastes in the late 1960s. It was expressed by the concept of recycling (almost unknown words before that time).

Environmental active campaign messages had a double meaning like “Don’t waste – recycle!”The issue was that garbage was not just a physical thing, it was a way to consider or think about such material things. Promoting Zero waste assumptions How do we believe what is valuable or what is useless, which varies at any time according to our knowledge.

so Designer and architect, Tech startups And Different apology Can give ourselves as a visionary that is able to shape how we think about waste: they understand that waste is not always wasted.

But even their efforts to reduce or reduce waste to zero still face the fact that in any work of making or making, energy and resources would have been spent. The life cycle of design or upsicated materials that embodiment the spherical ideals will also end, once again returns to the remains and the survivors. In that sense, zero waste is an ideal that aims to design a new human consciousness.

The lesson we can attract from all this is that there can be no history of waste that charts the path of victory. It is impossible to say that we conquered a form of waste and then moved to the next one. Garbage is always with us. But it is always taking new looks and without constant vigilance, it will overwhelm us in one form or in another form.

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