{"id":67951,"date":"2017-07-18T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67951"},"modified":"2017-07-18T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:14:52","slug":"garbage-and-rotting-country-with-overaged-politians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/18\/garbage-and-rotting-country-with-overaged-politians\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage and rotting country with overaged Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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FEE FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION \u2013It is high time \u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n

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Photograph above shows three garbage bins kept in the car porch in front of a house in London .If the occupants place wet food left overs in blue or green bin other than in the gray bin,collectors will not touch it .People pay more than 25000 Rs per month for collection of Garbage and using the Green Bin meant for collection of green garbage such as leaves and tree cuttings, is also charged with an additional amount .Unless\u00a0 we adapt such a system in Sri Lanka like in the west where people pay for garbage collection in addition to the meagre council tax we pay ,we will never be able to solve\u00a0 the garbage problem.Any household who puts papers and other recyclable items in the bin other than the blue bin will be charged by the local council and you are liable to pay heavy penalties By imposing such rules ,I am sure neither Joint Opposition not Supreme court can overturn such ruling imposed by the government .<\/p>\n

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We Sri Lankan are hood winked by the politicians who have do not feel the pulse of the intellectuals and the poor masses .Carriage of the ruling class is pulled in multiple directions and it is stand still .On one side government wants to build garbage incinerators and make compost and then another factions wants it to be transported to Arruwakkalu lime pits without being sorted out .CEB and Treasury are dully dallying on how much they should pay for the power generated by incineration. Every action\u00a0 listed above smell corruption <\/p>\n

What the whole country should do is spend all that money and give three plastic bins with electronic chips to identify the owners ( as our people will steel anything ) and have a national awareness to segregate garbage .Local councils are defunct and nobody wants to create the awareness that garbage sorting at source is a must .<\/p>\n

Once sorted out (like in developed countries) people can make compost behind the kitchen and burn papers and allow collection of plastics and metal for re cycling I know a company why make plug boxes out of waste plastics.<\/p>\n

We should read \u00a0following statistics<\/p>\n

How long does it take to decompose?<\/p>\n

Paper towel 2-4 weeks<\/p>\n

Banana peel 3-4 weeks <\/u><\/p>\n

Paper bag\u00a0\u00a0 I month <\/u><\/p>\n

Newspaper 1.5 months <\/u><\/p>\n

Apple core 2 months<\/p>\n

Card board 2 months<\/p>\n

Cotton glove 3 months<\/p>\n

Orange peel 6 months<\/p>\n

Plywood 1-3 years<\/p>\n

Wools sock 1-5 years<\/p>\n

Milk cartons 5 years<\/p>\n

Cigarette buts 10-12 years<\/p>\n

Leather shoes 25 to 40 years<\/p>\n

Tinned steel can 50 years<\/p>\n

Foamed plastic cups 50 years<\/p>\n

Rubber boot sole 5-80 years<\/p>\n

Plastic containers 50 to 80 years<\/p>\n

Aluminium can 200-500 years<\/p>\n

Plastic bottles 450 years<\/p>\n

Disposable diaphers\u00a0 550 years<\/p>\n

Monofilament fishing line\u00a0 600 years<\/p>\n

Plastic bags 200-1000 years<\/p>\n

Politians \u2013every 5 years !<\/u><\/p>\n

For last 30 years I have never thrown out any garbage bag to the street for collection .I make compose or burn the balance .<\/p>\n

News papers are also part of rotting garbage culture \u00a0who concentrate on Garbage \u2013News but do not contribute to solving \u00a0the national issues<\/p>\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Quote FEE FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION \u2013It is high time \u2026\u2026.. Photograph above shows three garbage bins kept in the car porch in front of a house in London .If the occupants place wet food left overs in blue or green bin other than in the gray bin,collectors will not touch it .People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}