Interesting.... though there is one model that many of these articles overlook...i think the problem is more psychological, in terms of us wanting things looking nice and properly packaged etc....
if you look at any under-developed or developing economy people automatically recycle everything ...clothes, plastic, rubber, food etc... here in nairobi, in the recent past we have seen a growth in giant shopping malls. whats really strange is that they have these big bins inside the shopping malls with a friendly cartoon and a recycling sign...urging people to drop in their bottles and plastic bags. At the end of the day, they simply go and dump it in the common municipal tip....where a certain class of people makes a living collecting and sorting the waste. The recycling signs and cartoons were merely psychological feel-good symbols.... In Europe I have seen similar bins everywhere which encourage people to separate their garbage, but when i spoke to a waste management consultant he told me that most of the time they simply incinerated everything at very high temperatures.....(as it was more expensive to separate & recycle ...).... That said, the system to recycle cemetries is very efficient :) you are allowed to stay buried for about 20 years (at the end of which your relatives have probably paying your grave rent) , and then the government evicts you and puts someone else in there. > http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/103/essay-resources.html > > Resources: The Revolution Begins > > Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't > just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan > sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money. > > From: Issue 103 | March 2006 | Page 72 By: Chip Giller and David > Roberts Photographs by: Phillip Toledano >
