IS THERE A BETTER WAY?

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Around the world there are examples of better ways to understand and imagine what's been traditionally imagined as waste. The Yorkshire 20th Century saying/proverb, 'Where there's muck there's brass' let's us know that recycling is not some new fangled 'hippie idea'. In England "brass" is still slang term for money. By "muck" is meant any form of dirt, manure, scrap, (waste) etc. is implied, 

Interestingly the English proverb, 1678: "Muck and money go together" resonates still. So, have we today, "lost the plot" as is often said? Whatever, there's a very good case for saying that 'we' – Western society in general –  have truly lost the ability to understand or cope with what is happening in our cultural landscapes – and nowhere so obviously as at our 'tips', 'dumps' and what bureaucrats imagine as 'wast management centres'. 

Tasmania, and Launceston specifically, is not alone in its 21st Century recalcitrance, but it is time that those who mismanage our 'tips, dumps and rubbish-heaps' must be called to book and made accountable for their environmental mismanagement and fiscal responsility.

Against this background one can see why some 'council functionaries' might want to hang on to "what's always been" but we can no longer afford it – and shouldn't. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GOOGLE-EYE-VIEW OF LAUNCESTON'S 'TIP'

When you visit the 'Lonnie tip' viaGOOGLE just take a good hard look at the landscape and take note of where the water courses run, the roads go, where the treed areas are, etc. are, and ask yourself "does this represent appropriate landscape management"?