London: Where Does All The Waste Go? - Part 2

More Challenges Ahead

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While we are seeing good developments and improvements on recycling factories in London, the rate of waste being dumped in the landfills versus the volume of rubbish that these factories are able to process is still a staggering problem. Experts suggest that with the influx of immigrants and skilled workers coming in (which is more than the babies being born by UK citizens), this will significantly increase waste output by 20 – 35% in the next 5 – 8 years! Perhaps the government and private companies are not the only ones should get involved in recycling – Londoners might soon face a choice about whether to help keep their city clean or deal with the trash that may not be picked up on route any longer.

People can invest in this kind of business and make it like a business cooperative where there will be multiple owners that operate recycling factories. Sweden has successfully reduced their trash output to 0% and is now looking to import trash in order to keep their recycling factories running. We can learn from them and build a profitable recycling business! Contrary to popular belief, recycling is a booming industry, it’s just that there aren’t enough recycling plants built to gulp down all the rubbish in the world. Much of it is now ending up on the surface and at bottom of the oceans, threatening marine life altogether.

The Fate of the World is in These Recycling Plants

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Even though London is geographically small, it can influence policy on a global scale. The UK has always stood at the side of the U.S. in just about every endeavor it took since relations were established after the Great American Revolution. That kind of power can be put to good use and encourage other countries to cut down on their trash and carbon emissions. There are countless solutions now available to cut down on trash and they come in the form of recycling factories. The 19-year-old Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat has even developed a method to clean the oceans of the world, which should be great news for those who are in the recycling business. Trash collected from Boyan’s device could be hauled across the world and delivered to the doorsteps of recycling plants. More waste to recycle means more profits!

It’s amazing what we can do collectively if we put our minds and hearts on focusing about creating solutions to problems. We are responsible for these problems in the first place and we have a moral obligation to fix it and save our planet. The problem with most people is that they are apathetic to these kinds of problems and keep convincing themselves that waste just isn’t their problem, which is totally not true. For every plastic bag you throw out on the streets or empty beer cans you toss, that’s another piece of rubbish that will keep adding up to the billions of tonnes already being dumped god knows where.

How we carry this responsibility and act on this problem will define us as a generation.