Comments on: Energy Update: Sweden’s Waste-to-Energy Problem – Not Enough Garbage https://techsomogro.com/energy-update-swedens-waste-to-energy-problem-garbage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=energy-update-swedens-waste-to-energy-problem-garbage Science, Technology and the Future Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Ronald Vermeij https://techsomogro.com/energy-update-swedens-waste-to-energy-problem-garbage/#comment-3852 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:05:39 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=6261#comment-3852 (A) “I’m going to investigate further because quite frankly – reduce, reuse, recycle and compost are only partial solutions to managing the waste our 21st century society produces”
ReUse and ReCycleability should be the KEY DESIGN FACTOR on the drawingboard so that a manufacturing process simply does not produce waste in the first place – by default.

In my country there is a waste-recycling-company has a nice slogan that says it all for me “Waste Does Not Exist”
[http://www.vangansewinkelgroep.com/nl/company/afval-bestaat-niet.aspx] Dutch page

(B) “Short of all of us becoming hoarders in our homes to deal with municipal restrictions on what you can throw out, governments have to look at alternatives to landfill.”
I do not want to promote a “Global Minimalistic Lifestyle” here ….but logically seen there is only so much “stuff” that one can use and really needs in a lifetime.

“Landfills are for lamers” that do not want to take the time, research and effort to investigate HOW it is POSSIBLE to turn “waste” BACK into something useful again. and that includes nuclear waste landfills as well.

Mankind can put men on the Moon, send “Rovers” to Mars, launch satellites to other planets and galaxies… but we can not “solve our own earthbound waste challenges”??? Come on…

(C) Another – more advanced solution is working towards “collective ownership”:
Example: A street has 10 houses and 20-30 people living in this.
In the current scenario everyone (old and capable enough) in every household wants to have a (4 seated) car..(to carry only 1 person)… which STANDS STILL most of the time, in front of their houses, and does nothing other than occupying space and flattering their owners ego’s and social status

In a future scenario:
__ The entire street would come together, and CALCULATE FIRST how much shared cars they need, to fulfill their collective transportation needs.
__ They buy (or even lease!) a pool-of-smaller (1,2 person only) cars-per-street and a couple of special-purpose-cars (small trucks)
__ Put all the cars together in a “car-(resources)- pool” and start SHARING these cars with everyone else in the street.
__ When they communicate their collective transportation needs towards each other, maybe it becomes possible that multiple persons are able to SHARE a car (the old car-pooling principle)

With this smaller-car-pool and share-a-car principle:
__ ALL the purchased pool-cars are more used more and efficiently.
__ It provides lower transportation cost/person/street/city
__ Lesser of no traffic jams (of made out of 1 person in one entire car)
__ Better Return On Investment for the car-poolers/car-sharers
__ Fewer environmental pollution
__ Manufactures do not need to make so much cars. (lower resource consumption)
__ (lower CO2 /greenhouse gas emission)
__ Freed up a lot of parking space in the process
__ Freedom for every person to “use-a-car” and go where they want to go

When this “car-pool” is made up of:
__ Electric cars (for relatively short local trips only)
__ Hydrogen powered cars (for medium, long range distances)
__ Carbon fuel cars (for tasks that can not be dove yet by electric powered cars)

The air get much cleaner, lower fossile-fuel-demand and we all could be happy 😛 since “shared-transportation-device-ownership” makes “personal-style” transportation available for everyone in the street/area/city.

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