Taking out the garbage unless you're super rich and have servants to do all your work
You probably have to take out the garbage sometimes
Well, maybe not
It depends on your house and your family
When I was growing up, I had to take out the garbage back in Canada or sometimes my dad did it
I read about another country,
South Korea where garbage duty taking out the garbage is a duty that revolves throughout the family
Everybody takes turns
So that seems a little more fair right now
I live in Japan and I'm married to a Japanese woman
and she wants me to take out the garbage on the days that I can't
She asks my younger son to take out the garbage
So it's kind of a guy thing
What happens after the garbage is taken out?
That depends on the country you live in, in Canada
Most of the garbage goes into landfills
And I think that's true also in basically America, that's probably true
In a lot of countries I was reading about India
where they take the garbage to the landfill and they burn it there here in Japan
Most of the garbage gets burned in an incinerator
So there's no landfills
Honestly, it's a problem
If you burn it, you have problems with all that noxious smoke
and maybe some heavy metals going out into the air
If you try and put it in a landfill, it just piles up and you never get rid of the garbage
It just sits there
The only thing that I can think of as a solution is to try
and discourage our consumer society or make more products that are biodegradable
Well, it sounds fairly simple, but in fact, it's a tough thing to do
Most people don't want biodegradable things
and a lot of people like to consume and then buy another new one
It's a consumer society
We have to get rid of our addiction to buying things
What do you think?