I would like to start by making a
question and it is those who are bothered to see
a street full of trash without shyness
raise your hand to me not
he is going to explain to you because for me
very disturbing to see a clean street
because at this moment being the
situation that that that means that
there is a lot of garbage that is very good
hidden is to say the problem has not been
solved but he was alone
comfortably hid our eyes
then to tell you where it comes from
this particular view of the garbage me
I have to go back several decades to
back when I was 78 years old I started a
ecological club for my friends
I care about the planet and I wanted
do what was in my hands not
it seemed to me that it made sense to sit down
to wait for the solutions to come
only outside and then a
of the things that I promoted as practice
the care of the planet was precisely
put garbage in the trash
then in all these years that have
gone from that moment because my vision
and practice caring for the planet have
changed a lot particularly
measurement of garbage and in that sense
now I do not seem to hide
trash in a work is a way to
take care of the planet done I think it’s
On the contrary, because the garbage
hiding gives us the illusion that the
problem does not exist and therefore we
we feel the need to solve it
then in this process of wanting to do
what is in my hands started to
radically change my relationship with the
trash and in that process
I have learned a lot from myself I know that
this sounds very weird but the truth is
that the trash says a lot
talk about our hobbies talks about
our habits speaks of our
fears of our insecurities and I
I agree a lot of a moment in my
childhood in which I was seeing a
Detective series and
the scene where they will discover who
was the culprit for what they had the
trash and I think that’s where everything started
this roll because from that moment on
forward has always had like
curiosity and paranoia to think that
I could find out someone from me by the
worker friendly content
so if I see this scene from
crime and I see my dump I think a
Detective would not have to be very good
detective to come to the conclusion of
that I am one of the culprits and I do not
I want to continue contributing to that is true
I do not want to be part of what is
generating this type of crime
then I have set the goal of
learn to live with so little trash
as possible in that process that has
been several years has not been for nothing
an overnight thing
there comes a point where you have a base
worker in my house stops making sense
and then started to store my trash
in a glass jar
this was not an idea of mine or is it something
that I copy from other people that I see that
they are in this same search that they keep
your trash in a glass jar and to
me at first it was because I thought it was
a matter of size as well is
because it’s small but then I gave myself
account that the material was essential that
is transparent and the fact that this
be transparent to me has brought me
at least two great revelations that
they are things like pretty obvious but they are
the kind of things that you do not
stop to think about everyday life
then the first relationship is that a
humans bother us the garbage
only when we see it we generate
piles of trash but then the
We put in the bags we send it in a
truck as far away from us as
possible and in fact while we have the
garbage in the cabal we have stored in
black bags in opaque containers or
we do not want to even see our
own garbage we no longer support the
presence of our own garbage and without
But the way we have to deal
with this matter is how the children
little children who cover their eyes and
they think that the monster disappeared
when what I think is that these
heights we should have
a more adult look and understand that the
fact that we are not seeing a
problem directly does not mean that
the problem does not exist the other revelation
time that is also quite obvious is that
every time I ‘m going to put a little bit of
bottle litter the rest of the
garbage that generates 2 is still there
like looking at me and reminding me that there is a
problem that I have not solved take out the
garbage has not disappeared as
Nor would have gone if I
I would have sent a landfill
and how does the 240 disappear?
kilos of garbage that is estimated to
generates a common citizen by the year 240
kilos of garbage is as if I will generate
four times my own weight of garbage to
year is an outrage and the matter is that
we have normalized both the garbage
we have reached a point where
We believe that it is inevitable and in which
we think it’s natural when really
the natural thing is that garbage does not exist in
nature nothing is wasted
so if we look around
we see that for example what is left over
a predator takes advantage of a carrion
what a carrion left over it
take advantage of some insects what is left over
the insects take advantage of
soil microorganisms that what
convert into nutrients for
plants and throughout the cycle goes on and this
subject of there being as elements that
there are so many that they do not
they took advantage and that pollute is a
problem exclusively human and is a
problem because I think we have
to solve and that I think it has to
see with our perception and with our
attitude
there’s also a design problem
but it ‘s a topic for another day and I think that
the perception has on the one hand that to see
with the words we choose to use
because for example we say stuffing
sanitary instead of saying dumpster
when a sanitary landfill
basically it ‘s a garbage dump what happens
is it sounds nicer or we choose to say
waste instead of saying recourse
wasted because when we say
untapped resource we are talking
there is a responsibility of someone who
someone failed to take advantage of something
whereas when we say waste like that
like in the air and like it’s not
no one
We choose to say how we recycle the 10
percent of the waste when
we wanted to say there we are failing
in 90 percent of the use
of waste because of course the first one we
lifts the ego and the second does not
then in this process of
connect with that with that perception and
with that attitude I think there’s another issue
which is very important and it is the difficulty
we have to understand the impact
cumulative both positive and negative
of the little things
then he will give a specific example
a disposable cup disposable cups
small does not weigh almost nothing does not occupy almost
nothing ridiculously cheap spaces and one
says a disposable cup does not
matter no but then let’s make a
quick calculation we think that a person
uses an average of three disposable cups
per week pulling low because I know
that there are people who are very much more than
that but with those three times a week
that person we are no longer talking about a
only glass but one year
trash garbage 156 glasses is already a number
larger but still not a number
scandalous
then we no longer think of just one
person but let’s think about half of
the population of the valley saves
pulling low again because
surely more than half of those
disposable
but with half the population no longer
we are talking about 156 glasses but of
296 million 400 thousand glasses thrown to the
garbage per year
it’s obviously not a calculation that
I did here I learned it for the talk but
can easily calculate and check and
that’s that is an eyesore
so we think how much it generates
antioquia when colombia how much
South America when the world and I
when I think about that figure he said that the
dump and what impotence and what crime
and what we do with that then there are people
that says I can not recycle but the
issue is that recycling does not solve
the problem but only deals
of the symptoms is like putting a cloth
of warm water a person with a
deadly disease
and then really what can we do
you do not need a crazy innovation or
unexpected but something as simple as
this stop using disposable cups
then with this appointment that I have
with me everywhere that does not happen either
nothing and that also superbarata means
that rate means that never again in
had to use a disposable cup ever
more nor one
I think there is a very important thing
and is to think that if we want to solve that
problem the kilos and kilos of garbage that
we are generating although there are some
things that depend on initiatives
governmental industrial initiatives
there is much that is in our hands
for me the logic is that if I do not want
see the garbage that if I ‘m not
willing to accumulate 240 kilos of garbage
in my house because of the place to hide what
what I should be doing is stop
generate it and that can do it
any person or have I achieved that
I am an ordinary person
then I know that many people and
they tell you it’s not that you already live generating
few hours imagine that I live in
a cave that I do not bathe that painted me the
face with mud but I was I am a
as common as person
can you have made use of the internet
I love internet I have friends I bathe and has
managed to generate a very change
significant has happened to generate no
I know how much because before not the heavy but
suppose that those 140 kilos 240 kilos
a year to more or less a kilo
I have gone to the normal thing that they took two
garbage bags per week to which each
six months he took out a garbage bag of
this size are still generating garbage itself
but I’m generating less and there are people
that tells me how there is but is that
you are changing the world I know I know that
I ‘m not changing the world, I’m not
I can change over the hopefully I’m
trying to be consistent with things
that I care and I am more
doing an observation exercise and
reflection I am like turning into
a detective of myself to understand
better my relationship with garbage
my consumption patterns and type since
I’m leaving on the planet and also
there are people who make me like a
general scanning in haiti
the tennis arts I do not know that’s the same
generating impact and I know I ‘m
generating impact be I can not
do everything but for me the fact that
I can not do everything
hamas is an excuse to sit do
absolutely nothing
then in spite of those comments
I choose to stay with my jar of
glass and with what this transparency
represents in a world where we
we have used to cover the problems
and cross your fingers to avoid having to
deal with them later I think that
this is my way how to face a
society that hides its trash in bags
blacks and I hope that this jar and the
transparency that serves here to motivate
to other people to take them revealed so
comfortable and so dangerous that we put
The trash
so if this is what I am
counting this was no longer a bell
in the head and simple I want but not
I know where to start the task too
great remind me that the changes
great always start with things
small and sometimes the solution does not
they are unexpected innovations but things
that we already have stored in the cabinet
the kitchen
thank you very much
[Applause]
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