OpinionOpinion
Life on Earth depends on the circuit of water, carbon and
everything that rises into the sky. In the atmosphere, their
mixing, concentration, various chemical-physical processes,
transformations take place, and with precipitation everything
returns to the earth. On the soil, substances become the building
material of bodies and plants, which, as they grow and multiply,
produce waste, eat up, and waste again rise into the sky. Humanity,
in its development and the pursuit of the comfort of its existence,
destroys the circuits. Vapors without changing the properties of
vapors are clearly visible on the water - it came with precipitation
and immediately went back to the atmosphere. In nature, such
fumes come from the surfaces of water bodies, from stones, and
other hard surfaces. But with the development of the industry, there
are a lot of hard and impermeable surfaces, their volumes grow
daily with the growth of technology and productivity. Alienated
from nature territories - already more than 70% of the earth’s land.
This is deep plowing agriculture, reservoirs, deforestation, asphalt
and concrete pavement, garbage and ore landfills. Vapors new to
nature from destroyed surfaces can be called artificial. More details
can be found in [1].
One of the types of impermeable surfaces is garbage and ore
landfills. Household garbage, in which a lot of chemical elements
are concentrated, becomes the endpoint of many substances - the
circuits open. At garbage landfills, rainwater moistens the upper
layers of paper, plastic, metal, glass, does not find its consumers and
returns to the atmosphere without fulfilling its natural functions.
The main impact on nature - reducing the water cycle - is the
destruction of underground infrastructure, which is located under
layers of garbage. Each hectare of natural soil contains up to 20
tons of underground living creatures. All this lives, consumes water,
oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gases, converts minerals and
organics, releases moisture vapor, and everything else in processed
form, is an important link in a single cycle of substances. It was
determined that the total garbage area of the whole world occupies
the same area as the entire territory of Mexico, which is growing
with the development of technology (Figures 1 & 2).
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
All cities in the world solve the problems of recycling and
recycling. The greatest success in this was achieved by the
Scandinavian countries and Japan. They were able to create
zero emissions, eliminated all landfills. All garbage is sorted and
recycled; its own circuit of things has formed. These include metals,
glass, paper, plastic, organics. All this goes to recycling and returns
to reusable items. The destructive effects of these countries on
natural processes are significantly reduced. Examining garbage
heaps, we find in their environment most of all plastic containers
and bags that are on shelves and shop windows with liquid and
bulk products, detergents, chemicals from many industries. The
technology for manufacturing plastic dishes has achieved high
results in terms of productivity, production volumes, and cost.
Is it possible to combine or combine the action and reaction of
these two categories: production and utilization? One of the main
advantages of plastic products is durability - hundreds of years. But
this advantage turns into a disadvantage after using the contents
of the container. A variety of processes and studies are underway
to reduce plastic because of this durability. Strategically protecting
the environment requires reducing or eliminating the production
of any kind of plastic, processing it after use, and using it in the
production of other items. A variety of methods are actually being
introduced to reduce the use of plastic bags and separate garbage
collection.
We see a significant scatter in volumes, destinations, and
packaging forms. The multitude of parameters of only utensils
for filling and selling liquid products suggests the unification and
standardization of all containers.
Combining the efforts of designers of all types of utensils in
a single standardization could reduce garbage many times and
eliminate landfills. If plastic dishes do not decompose for hundreds
of years, then can this factor be used for construction? The simplest
conclusion suggests itself - to make dishes in the form of a hollow
brick. There are such cans with handles and corks recessed in
the depths of one of the sides. In the construction of walls, these
containers after use can be filled with sand, sawdust, crumpled or
crushed plastic bags, crushed non-decaying waste of all other types
of garbage, and lay the walls out of them. To do this, it is enough to
standardize all types of dishes for a single series of sizes, choose the
main size of one side of a rectangular shape, for example length, and
make the others multiple in width and height. It is not necessary to
do this only for plastic - this oneIncip can also be used for glassware.
Walls are load bearing, but frame construction with filling annular
space with lightly loaded or non-bearing walls is also known.
It is widely known that craftsmen and enthusiasts build houses
from ordinary bottles [2] (Figures 3 & 4). A new form of utensils
would allow such an army of builders to lead to the construction
of their houses like these so that the replenishment of landfills
would stop immediately. In addition, the useful area for food
storage, warehousing, transportation would increase. But most
importantly, the growth of landfills would cease. And coupled
with the reclamation of existing ones, a significant contribution to
reducing artificial and increasing organic fumes would appear - the
main factor in stopping climate change.
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