I read that the US tosses 22,ooo tonnes of perfectly good food away every day and that the world produces enough food for 12 billion people annually and we have 6 billion to feed. Why are too many of them starving?
We dump huge numbers of superceded computers and elctronic communications devices each year in land fills yet the rare elements in the circuitry and screens are some of the most valuable on earth. Why?
There is a corporation called 5 Star Green which perfected technolgy for making large bricks from rubbish years ago but can not get adequate investment to go into major production despite the facts that the bricks are cheap, clean, build a house very quickly as they are relatively large and light to handle, require no finishing as they are smooth and paintable and superb insulation. Non-organic rubbish recycled brilliantly. Why isn’t their product everywhere?
Perhaps the only answer can be there is no new thinking and too many of the same people who brought us the GFC are still presiding over banks, private and government funds and the purse strings around the world. Show me some new sustainable thinking and I can show you where the money is!
