Comments on: One Big Rubbish Bin

By: FAYE

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By: Risa Geske

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By: Paul Fridell

Paul Fridell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:17:33 +0000

Hi Jon & Jack,

First time having a look at your website and impressed with the quality of photos and candid accounts. This article caught my attention on account of waste management work I am currently doing in areas impacted by Dec 2004 Tsunami for United Nations Development Programme in Aceh and Nias (north Sumatra) as a waste management consultant. We are currently designing the best landfill in Indonesia which will be in Banda Aceh. However the waste issue in Indonesia is a product many typical developing countries face - community engagement, education and funding. We are finding that even given the best landfill and waste management solution in Indonesia - funded by international donors - it is still up to local government to make it financially sustainable and educate the local population. I can report though that attitudes are changing in Banda Aceh. Since the Tsunami plastics now have a price in Banda Aceh and many people make a living from collecting plastics to be shipped to Medan or reprocess into plastic bags. Also we are investigating ways to make money to support running the waste programs through the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol. This where developing countries can sell carbon credits (e.g. for burning landfill gas - mostly methane - a significant greenhouse gas contributor) to western industries (e.g. Vic coal companies) who need to offset their own carbon emissions.

Best of luck in the stans.

By: mary churchill

mary churchill — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:52:25 +0000

Regards Jon and Jack,
interesting to hear your observation regarding rubbish. Having spent some time travelling in Tunisia this year, I was also surprised and saddened by the rubbish, a sea of blue plastic spewing out there contents or stuck to tree trunks, blowing in the wind. Vacant land, train tracks used as rubbish dumps, no organised rubbish collection on the outskirts of the cities to be seen.
Happy travelling!

By: Joan Boyd

Joan Boyd — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:03:31 +0000

Best wishes Jon and Jack. Ali is fantastic so watch it Jon! (Just kidding, it will be great to have you back, but she is very good!). Looking forward to reading about the “Stans”.

By: Wellyan Sutantyo

Wellyan Sutantyo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:30:40 +0000

hi J&J…
remember me, the man who used your as a background for my photo at sheraton bandar lampung.
just wanna say thanks for it

have a great adventure !!!!
Regards

By: Don

Don — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:46:04 +0000

Hi there J & J,What a trip, good luck to you both, don’t get too agro about the rubbish there, you should see it along the HAY Plaines in N S W.
Ali is doing a great job on 774, but we do miss you.Keep sending the pics and info, saves me a trip. Regards from Don.

By: Graham Naismith

Graham Naismith — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:18:01 +0000

This is our absolute pet hate - we’ve been in national parks and people just empty the contents of their rubbish bags on the ground. All these beautiful countries that are given such little respect by the occupants. In Kyrgystan my wife spent an hour cleaning a play-part of rubbish and broken glass and everyone just stared! It will get worse as you travel - and just wait for the spitting!!! We’ve been in restaurants where the guy next to us spent some minutes bringing everything up from his lungs as we ate and then deposited it on the floor along with his still burning cigarette!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:20:04 +0000

Hi Jon and Jack. Good luck to you both … you will need it. There were times on the hippy trail in the seventies when I wished I had my own transport. Much better than being a sardine in an Indian train or sitting astride a plank in a bumppy Sumatran “bus”. Just one small complaint.(Just listening to you on 774) To the best of my knowledge (and that of the embassy in Australia) Laos is pronounced with the S, not LAO. The people are called the Lao but the name of the country is LAOSSSSS. Is this pronunciation coming from the same place as Tollybonne and Uffgunnystun?

By: Brian Piddick

Brian Piddick — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:46:47 +0000

Twenty-five years ago when working at Butterworth the locals too had no regard for the environment and littering. I remember commenting/getting up a couple as they threw the plastic bag and straw in which coke was always drunk out of the van, ‘that’s got nothing to do with us’ was the reply. I’ve heard of ignorance but a whole country, or countries of Asia! With a return to Bangkok last June nothing has changed and the Government here wonder what is the use if the rest of the world doesn’t do something to help. Wait until you get into China… The fact that struck me when living in Asia was that, wherever you went there was somebody. The place is that populated there is nowhere you can go and not see somebody. After growing up in QLD, living in the Territory and not seeing a soul for miles, Asia was a shock to the system. As is the case in the Sunday markets at Bangkok. Did you get lost? You weren’t the only ones. Try policing three kids and cousin and watching for the baddies from all directions.