Human — Garbage
Straight off the bat I need to emphasize that I don’t believe any human being is garbage though I have to hold myself back from expressing that sometimes. I chose that title, however, because the garbage you see in this photo has a human face to it and I hope to explore that through this article.
The dumping of raw sewage in our rivers and onto our beaches is a hot topic at the moment. The water companies are blaming it on power outages and whatever they can come up with but we know full well that the overriding issue is profit. Water was privatised in UK in the 1980s and as the primary goal of a private company is to make a profit it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that we, the consumers, don’t come top of the list.
The dumping of waste by corporations is faceless. While shareholders and senior management are benefiting from lack of investment and cutting corners, the bottom line is the bottom line. Some of these bosses should probably be facing fines and worse but corporations will be corporations. Our only recourse is government intervention and the simplest route to achieving that is re-nationalisation. But hey, that’s politics. Let’s get back to humans.
Littering and fly tipping can also appear to be faceless, especially when it comes to fly tipping. Similar to corporate dumping, fly tipping is a business where a disreputable business person…
