Coffee for rubbish. Such exchange is offered by the hostel in the Głodówka Tatras. Meanwhile, our junk landscape is changing like long and wide Poland. And it's not for the better.
Plastic bags fly in the air, masks hang sadly from poles and tree branches, and roadside lawns grow five-toed bushes from disposable gloves. Coronavirus precautions change our landscape not only in cities. Mountains of rubbish are piled up by the sea, plastic reefs are rising in the mountains.
Mountains of garbage in the seas
Recently, the network was shaken by photos of the French NGO Operation Mer Propre . Its members plunged into the depths of the Cote d'Azur to see what the garbage situation looks like in the depths. Short answer: wrong. Junk schools are a problem that we have known for a long time. In 2018, the UN estimated that dizzying 13 million tons of plastic goes to the oceans every year.
Apart from ordinary waste, divers found a sign of the times in the water - dozens of masks, gloves and packaging for disinfecting liquids. Concerned organization activists say they are afraid that soon we will have more masks in the sea than jellyfish.
Sea of garbage in the mountains
The problem of garbage everywhere affects not only waters and urban jungles. Głodówka shelter has started a series of events for cleaning the mountains , in which it encourages to collect garbage and exchange it for liquid, delicious and hot material prizes. Those willing to clean will be encouraged with protective gloves and a dustbin. When cleaning up on Facebook, and then show their loot in the shelter, they will receive coffee as a reward. The hostel announces that in the future the prize pool will increase the same as the number of hostels in participating actions.
There is something ironic in the fact that when environmentalists finally managed to draw our attention to the problem of rubbish, more and more people began to segregate it, the fashion for zero waste began to ramp up, a crisis began, from which we began to defend ourselves with plastic disposables. The coronavirus pandemic and related sanitary recommendations - the need to wear masks, gloves and continuous hand washing with disinfectant fluid left a mark not only on our health (including mental health), social relations, education and the economy, but also on nature. One can only hope that we will not go back in time through it and we will not forget that producing death without reflection and life on disposables has its price. And it is much higher than the one seen on the tag attached to the disposable mask.
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The rule is simple: you collect garbage on the trail, receive free coffee in a Polish shelter
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