Recycle is not poor, as some can still believe. Recycling is currently a necessity. Doing so means betting on sustainabilitythat is, for a world with a future. But not only that, because recycling can also become the salvation table to get out of poverty or, at least, to cope with it better.
Boat soon, I can think of doing it: through policies public or through private initiatives. Unfortunately, poverty and recycling policies have few practical examples.
Recycle used soaps
In Haiti we find an initiative launched by the Anónima Anacaona, recycling company of soaps that has devised how to reduce waste and give work to many women who are in a situation of vulnerability.
The idea is very simple: Soaps are recycled that, practically unused, leave the guests of the country’s luxury hotels. Specifically, there are already 25 hotels that collaborate with this activity. To do this, the pieces used for recycling are collected, they are already changing those that have been recycled.
The process meets the necessary hygienic health conditions, so soaps disinfect, to grate them and melt them later. Finally, they are obtaining soaps ready for use.
Social homes with recycled bricks
Plastic concepts, a Colombian solidarity company, has created recycled plastic bricks whose shape facilitates its assembly to build homes quickly and economically. Another example of solidarity with the most needy, while taking care of the environment.
The cost of a house of about 40 square meters would be around 4,500 euros. An average house needs about 1,300 bricks, whose manufacturing means giving exit to plastic waste, which are grinding, brings together, melt and, finally, extrusion.
Currently, they are making homes for NGOs or people who can afford them, since they are really economical. If plastic is collected to help make bricks, it is also collaborated with the initiative, lowering the final cost.
Recycle used sports shoes
In this case, more of a reuse is about a recycling. The project has been promoted by the European Secondary Institute of Madrid, promotes the Solidarity Campaign #RunchCle, which with the collaboration of Runnics and other organizations.
He ended yesterday, on June 20 and consisted of the collection of sneakers used to give them a second life on the feet of young people and children of Mozambique. In addition, the drawing shoes are accompanied and cards Personalized by children who collaborate in such a beautiful initiative.
Even if it is inevitable to wish that soon those children They can buy some sneakers with their own money. I know how it is, many small They will thank them for that country and receive as much joy as if they were new.
Objective: Recycle water
In this case, the project It is a desideratum. That is, it has not yet been done, but it is claimed as a measure to help people who do not have drinking water in their homes. Juan Javier Carrillo Sosa, researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), recalls that one in ten Mexicans does not have access to it.
In numerous parts of the world, as is well known, drinking water is also an inaccessible luxury for many. A first -order problem whose solution helps fight poverty, as the expert emphasizes.
Getting water available for everyone, in your opinion, demands their recycling. Not all cases are the same, but it proposes to do so that it has not been distributed equally and the availability irregular depending on the place and moment. Above all, referring to the inequalities that exist in your country with respect to its distribution.
To improve the situation, he proposes to invest in infrastructure that help their recycling, specifically to wastewater treatment, as well as to the collection of rainwater. Without a doubt, doing so would help fight poverty, as well as conserve the environment.
Bags from plastic bags
This initiative began in Chamcar Bei, a locality of the province of KEP, on the coast of Cambodia, and has also extended to other nearby municipalities. The key to success is none other than having achieved a free raw material with which to weave fashion accessories, such as bags.
As if that were not enough, in addition that raw material is transformed for use in an echo friendly way, because it is simply about converting the Bags of plastic that there are in the streets in shells with which I can weave. Of course, the activity of collecting waste is environmental care of great value. In the end, the result are cleaner cities and a work opportunity for people who are under the poverty threshold.
Conclusions
The objective, however, has a reason for being that agrees with trends in European and also global politics. Again, the word sustainability is the key, as well as inclusive policies, which help the marginalized population to stop being.
In sum, it would be a way to converge the sustainability economic and environmental doing social justice. A field in which we are still in Mantillas, but that the signs of the times lead to it, in the same way that the Fair Trade formula is making its way.
But these policies are the exception. Recycle and combat poverty is a binomial with great potential that has not yet begun to take advantage. On a private level, however, the projects do proliferate, as we will see below. In account drops, it is true, but each initiative is worthy of celebration and, why not, also an example that could spread.
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