The
whole neighborhood is dead quiet. You see his car coming out of his front
porch early in the morning. The car moves slowly until it stops in front of
your house.
He rolls down his car window, throws out two bags of garbage and
speeds away like he just robbed a bank.
You
know he’s been doing this everyday even before you moved in.
Are
you going to do something about it?
Before
we judge, let’s just take a moment to ANALYSE his illegal actions. Can you wake
up at 6am everyday without fail? Can you start your day with guilt? Can you
afford to waste your petrol? Do you even have your own car?
If
you never done something illegal before, let me tell you, it requires a lot of
willpower.
This
is just one tiny act. Imagine a country.
3,300
tons of plastic waste was being transported to Malaysia from more than 5 countries
around the world, which included the U.S., China and Japan. This required
MASSIVE willpower.
Maybe
the guilt of doing something illegal has died down and it became a perfectly
normal thing to do, like dumping garbage into neighboring countries. The
solution I heard about is to ship those waste back to where it came from.
Well, you
know you can consult this uncle, and if he still resumes his behavior, you
can take matters into your own hands.
You’ll
take his trash, and ship back to his own front yard.
And
then he’ll get the message, clear as day.
But
no, he thinks that you can never keep up with his schedule, which is
unfortunately true.
By
the end of the month, you’ll get irritated and tired from all these unnecessary
trips. Soon, this doesn’t even bother you and you’ll forget that this is even a
problem in the first place.
OR,
you could recycle it? Take out those newspapers and beer cans to make some
profit? For a country, can those wastes
generate electricity? Can the toxic gas emitted out from the plastic converted
to power?
Once
a country that is seen as a dumping ground for other developed countries is now
taking the sails for a greener environment and having greater profit, somebody
is bound to be jealous.
We’re giving away free stuff to
other countries without any charges?!
Since
solving garbage problem is not their job, they’ll continue to
ship those wastes elsewhere, profit or no profit. Some will try to charge
some fees, but since it’s an illegal act in the first place, this does not
work. No, they will not let other countries rip off their riches and resources,
even if it’s garbage.
As
they said, literally, “One man's trash is another man's treasure”.
So,
what better revenge than to thrive and succeed while others are piling garbage
on you?