The other day, I was helping Gesa to prepare the plot for flower beet. There was a lot of compost added in this part of the garden, which came from bio-müll/organic waste trash that has been composted. We are surprised how much plastic pieces are in these compost! Every time you try to till or dig, the shovel hits plastic pieces and gets stuck, or constantly thin plastic bag pieces appears. This makes me shout in my head “people! please separate your trash!” …. oooohhhmmmm. stay calm.
But really, in bigger picture, this is a small example of how plastics are entering in every bits of our environment and it really does not compost or degrade… Once it is mixed like this, it is almost impossible to separate them. It really feels, we, the humans are contaminating the environment.
When I throw a trash in a trash bin, it feels like then it is over. It disappears. It goes to void and it does not exist anymore, like deleted files in computers. But trash does not go to void. The label of the object changes from “Yogurt container” to “trash” but still is a same material and same mass. From the moment the material is mined and produced, it exists throughout its use by humans, and throughout its “end of life” as a trash in somewhere we do not see.
