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NEWSPAPER - NEW PAPER, TOMISLAV LEROTIÆ, 1998. - 2006...
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our town (Split, 220 000 inhabitants), 70 tons of paper are thrown away
every day. I have initiated daily publishing in a newspaper of an article
warning the readers not to throw the newspaper in the same trash can with
the rest of the garbage after reading it. After I had insisted on this for a few years, the article stared being published since 8th January this year on a daily basis in the best sold newspaper in the region of Split, Slobodna Dalmacija |
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The
advertisement encourages people to think about the value of discarded
paper and the need to collect it in separate containers. The real problem,
however, lies in the fact that collecting of discarded paper has not
yet been organized systematically and in many towns nobody takes over
the discarded paper. Our hope, however, is that, in some time, educated
people will exert pressure upon local authorities and force them to
organize the management of separately collected paper, as well as of
other valuable raw material that ends up on waste dumps. The aim of
the advertisement is precisely to educate as many people as possible
and make them aware of their obligation to use resources responsibly
and of the need to protect the environment.
I intend to persuade other newspapers' directions in big cities to publish the advertisement. Some said they would do it, and some didn't show any interest. The letters are obviously not conscious of their civil and professional obligation to try to resolve the problem created by the lack of a selective waste depositing (in this case, of the paper their newspapers are made of). Because of this, an enormous amount of tax payers' money will have to be inverted in waste dumps' clean up |
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In Croatia
almost all waste is thrown into the same container, i. e., systematic
depositing of waste in separate containers and recycling of valuable
waste components has not been organized yet. Only two thirds of community
waste is collected sytematicly and deposited on partly or entirely inadequate
wate dumps. Unfortunately, not even the first step, the education of
citizens, has been taken to make people handle waste responsibly. This
job is supposed to be the responsibility of towns and communities but,
unfortunately, until now, nobody felt the responsibility to handle this
problem. There are a handful of environmental protection NGOs and a
few environmentalists in every town who are persistently pointing out
this burning issue, writing from time to time in newspapers about it
and publishing educative material, within their modest possibilities.This product is also one of such attempts. It is an advertisement with following contents: Old newspaper - new raw material for paper production: Collecting paper in separate containers we protect our woods, earn water and energy, reduce the amount of waste in waste dumps and protect the environment. It appears in daily papers every day and should make the readers fully conscious of the fact that waste paper is a valuable raw material, as well as many other things we throw away. In Split, for instance, 70 tons of waste paper are thrown every day on a waste dump situated near the town, the waste dump is seriously overloaded and, as a matter of fact, is a real ecological bomb for the town and its suburbs. By collecting paper in separate containers the amount of waste would be reduced by 30 percent and the town's waste dump would be significantly unloaded. Besides, recycling waste paper we could save enormous amounts of water and energy, d. e. we could make major improvement in protecting the environment and contribute a lot to the common good. |
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