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in Spain we get fined if we don't recycle or even if a box is outside their respective container (even if it's not ours, some councils just want to fine people)
the company in charge of recycling (EcoEmbes) is not doing their job of waste collection, sorting, separation and treatment in our country, and they are even faking their statistics to make us think in Spain we are achieving our recycling goals, when we are not recycling even the 25 %.
GreenPeace Spain has been reporting this for years but nothing is done, because this EcoEmbes company is just a part of the political corruption network that reigns over us. https://es.greenpeace.org/es/en-profundidad/ecoembes-lo-reyes-del-greenwashing/ (Spanish)
many Spanish citizens already know about this and they recycle 'just in case', or they get so damn discouraged that they decide not to recycle at all. we are just.. tired and depressed. no will to fight since 2014.
i have four containers, one for each garbage type, and i still recycle even if i know maybe not even the 25 % of it will be treated as it should.
it's very depressing. it's not just companies, but our governments too. they are allies one to another, and their enemy is every nuisance that interferes with their greed. the only green they like is money.
i wish European Union helped us Spanish citizens with the EcoEmbes corruption and our many other corruptions, but the European Union is just an European richman's club, so i suspect they probably will be doing their own corruption schemes in their countries too, and being allies to our politicians.
our Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, who is probably going to be re-elected, and his Ministers, but also members of the Royal Family, and other Left and Right governments before since forever, = all of them politicians and monarchs in office, have been using the Falcon airplanes to go to the most simple reunion, vacation, music concert, football match... just citing 'security reasons' even if the reasons are not related to their job.
here you have the usage statistics of our current Government's Falcon airplanes, taken from FlightRadar: https://falcondespega.es
thanks to this page, the Government stopped using the airplanes so innecessarily because people started being aware of it. but if not, our Ministers and monarchs would be still doing as bad as before.
they could be using trains but why doing so, right?
sigh
sorry for the long post.
If the world leaders of today would want to fix climate change or pollution they should focus their attention on countries that do not already do a good job fighting against these problems, instead of focusing about smal national problems. Remember this is a GLOBAL ISSUE which is what many people forget.
i agree, but the thing is that we could be already doing more 'here' and 'there' to fix this corruption, but in the end we don't get anything done 'here' or 'there' anyway because we are not organized enough in local.
if i can't fix my own stuff, how can i pretend to fix others'? i get the 'there is no time to think small', but i don't think we currently are 'locally big' enough to think 'big globally' either.
also, the ecologic problems in countries like India, Bangladesh or China (for example), mostly depend directly on how economy is being handled by these countries, but also in rich countries that externalize their industry and garbage there, which makes this not an isolated corruption problem, but a whole failed economic model, in global as you say.
we people from Western countries import industry and export garbage, when we could have a responsible national, inner, circular, market first, so we don't affect other economies so much and so bad.
i feel we people from Western countries are in a much powerful position than people from those countries because we are the Demanding part of the market. we shape it. they Offer what we Demand. sadly, when it comes to the market, a bunch of Westerners can have more impact on India's Government than one of their citizens.
the problem: we are powerful but we cannot make it count because we are disorganized on what to do and how, we have been numbed and individualized.
we can cry in forums or go greta'ing to random politicians, but when it comes to action it feels like we are "oh no! ... anyway" and go to daily stuff again. i think the easiest way to not get overwhelmed by this is starting local, making active choices in our economies and prosecuting corruption.