Waste unmanageable
The face of Calgary's Sheppard Landfill Waste is fresh on my mind. I find it quite upsetting when I’m fretting over whether to reuse or recycle my yogurt container, while corporations are throwing away truckloads of cardboard because they can justify the cost. The urgency is lost on them, deep in the depths of the corporate beast, under accounting, budgets, absolved costs and so on. I am a bipolar disposer. Filled with a call of action to improve the system some days, other times I find I am helpless, dragged in the undertow of an un-improving system. Calgary has highest per capita disposal rates in North America. Our streets may be clean but our landfills are swollen, growing fat in the abundance of space we’ve been graced with. Prairies create a disparity, downplaying the necessity of reduction because of an amplitude of open spaces to burry our waste. We are rich, and our wealth is wasted as we replace our resources on the daily, throwing away lightly used goods, becaus