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Recycling: When Garbage become Income

yuti — May 12, 2008 / 12:23 pm

“When we look at garbage, we don’t see garbage, O.K.?” said Robert Reed, a spokesman for Norcal Waste Systems, the parent company of Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Company, the main garbage collectors in the city. “We see food, we see paper, we see metal, we see glass.” (NY Times, May 7, 2008)

In Indonesia, garbage still placed as waste and expenditure rather than income. A paradigm shift about how human and nature relation should be were mostly initiated by environment organization using artist as their representation. Is this phenomena indicate scientist-replaced-by-artist symptoms? Or the dichotomy of who should do what is not relevance anymore?

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