{"id":443,"date":"2020-10-25T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpmu.mau.se\/nmict202group4\/?p=443"},"modified":"2024-04-19T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T09:07:01","slug":"waste-colonialism-and-the-disposable-culture-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu.mau.se\/nmict202group4\/2020\/10\/25\/waste-colonialism-and-the-disposable-culture-addicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste colonialism and the disposable culture addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s generations will be remembered for many things. We are the first communication and technology generations. The generations of widespread globalization. Of climate change. First wars on water. Migration crimes. The ones of the flourishing transnational social movements. But also, and in some senses most outstandingly, we are the generations of garbage. The \u201cthrowaway\u201d worshippers. The disposable culture addicts.<\/p>\n

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A daily average of 0,74 kilograms of waste generated per person<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to The World Bank, we generate 2.01 billion tonnes of solid waste per year (What a Waste 2.0<\/a>). But the industrialized way of life continues to expand and to impose itself. The urban \u201cdevelopment\u201d continues to be the fastest in human history. Cities, where waste consumption is clearly higher, continue to grow feverishly. If this continues, by 2050 we will be producing 3.4 billion per year (What a Waste 2.0<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Whichever way you look at it, these are unmanageable numbers. And The World Bank is not precisely critical of capitalism, consumerism, and its \u201cdevelopment\u201d model. Therefore, its reports tend to be way more conservative and complacent than reality.<\/p>\n

Plastic and e-waste<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Plastic continues to be one of the greater threats and the consumption of disposable ones gives no impression of diminishing. As a 2016 plastic industry report<\/a> explains, the world\u2019s plastic production has increased annually at least 8.6% since 1950. From 1.5 million tonnes then to almost 360 million tonnes in 2018. (Learn more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Furthermore, electronic waste continues to multiply. Most digital devices are increasingly created to be thrown away. Planned obsolesce is widespread in the industry and the speediness with which we discard continues to increase year by year. Very few consider repairing electronic devices. Most prefer upgrading. Our worshipped phones, computers, tablets\u2019 production, and disposals are one of the major causes for water, air, and soil pollution, human exploitation, and data insecurity (The Atlantic<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Environmental racism and toxic colonialism, waste colonialism or toxicomania colonialism<\/strong><\/h2>\n