Trash or Cash

Since I’ve lived in a third world country I experienced the firsthand impact of e-waste’s toxin. Back in Indonesia, my homeland, we had a big designated area in which we threw away all the trash. All the waste products that have been collected were then burned to the ground. The ashes were then buried in a big ditch. Furthermore, the lifeless wasteland looked even more depressing because of the fact that the toxins produced by the burning cycle made it impossible for plants to grow. There were no plants that lived around 4 meters radius of this area. Moreover, it is really frustrating to know that that the “developed” part of the world is making the “developing” countries deal with this mess. I think that the whole world should practice the EU way of solving the problem. The factories that make these products should be the ones to deal with how to dispose of it neatly (but I also think that the country who buys these products should also take part in the disposing). These big boss countries should have enough money to deal with these sorts of things and not pick on the smaller, less dominant countries just to save a few pennies.