scholarly journals Lessons from Rwanda

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Vishanthie Sewpaul
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Before a recent visit to Rwanda, all that the country held for me, as with most people, was the spectre of genocide, war, poverty and starving children. My brief visit to the city of Kigali challenged my widely held assumptions about the country. Kigali was the epicenter of the genocide in Rwanda, where about one million people experienced murderous tyranny within a space of 100 days, that wreaked havoc upon the country and left millions of people with untold losses and emotional scars. Rwanda is, indeed, an amazing example of a country rising from the ashes. My first encounter was on the Air Rwanda flight, where the in-flight magazine warns those entering the country to leave their plastic bags behind; that no person would be allowed to pass through immigration and customs with plastic bags and wrappings. A plastic bag free country is one of Rwanda’s contributions to environmental conservation and saving the earth. And of course in stores, its paper bags all the way!

Wandering Abroad: Ethnographic Journeys in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Kiddey
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Local Police ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Church Volunteers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

I agreed to meet Punk Paul on Stokes Croft at around 8 a.m. Paul was exactly where he said he would be—behind the bin next to The Big Issue office. In his early forties, Punk Paul was everything a punk should be—a devout follower of punk bands across the UK, he sported a blue Mohican (when bathroom facilities and soap rations permitted), army issue boots and a battered leather jacket covered in ‘anti-fa’ (anti-fascist) symbols. Paul fashioned the rest of his clothes from whatever he was given by church volunteers and picked up along the way. His distain of authority was firm but friendly. ‘Evening officer,’ he could often be heard saying, with a wink, to local police who regularly busted him for drinking in ‘no drinking zones’. ‘Could you spare a few shekels for an old sea dog? I’m trying to get together a pirate ship to sail off the end of the earth!’ ‘I have to pay Abdul £10.03,’ Paul said, as I approached. Abdul, Stokes Croft’s kindly but long-suffering newsagent, let some homeless people, including Paul, have beer on tick. We walked the short distance from the post office to Abdul’s shop and I waited outside with my dogs while Paul paid his debt. He was holding a can of Tennant’s lager when he reappeared. ‘It’s sort of a constant debt that I have with Abdul!’ He grinned before leading the way down City Road, Brighton Road, and onto Wilder Street. ‘You have to see this place! If you want to see what homelessness is really like in this country . . . this city could be any city, if you ask me. You have to see this place!’ We continued down Wilder Street until we reached a semi-derelict building. Through peeling paint it was possible to read ‘Bristol Transmissions’ above the long-ago boarded-up shop window. ‘It’s known as “The Black House”,’ Paul said, pushing the door. A padlock had been smashed off. Inside, there were two downstairs rooms, both hugely decayed with missing floorboards.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN ZERO WASTE YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON GLOBAL AND MASSIVE INDONESIAN ZERO WASTE LIFESTYLE AND MOVEMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Maria Ardianti Kurnia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Waste Plastic ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Single Use ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Global Activity

Plastic has become a massive problem globally since there is a large portion of the ocean contaminated with plastic waste. Plastic becomes a material that cannot be broken down by soil and takes years to be broken. Therefore, many people try to influence each other to adoptthe zero waste lifestyle as a concern to the Earth. Zero waste has become a global activity that always encourages the society to reduce single-use plastics. Using single-use plastics can be found in everyday life, such as when going shopping to the market, sometimes the sellers will give plastic bag to the buyers. Most of the time, the plastic bag is only used once tobe throwninto the trash can. This research uses qualitative method. The researcher analyzes through zero waste lifestyle videos and books as the primary sources of this analysis. The results of this research are first, the step to get started to become a “zero-waste lifestyler”, second, how to be the “zero waste lifestyler”, and third, how zero waste can give the global lifestyle movement in Bali, Indonesia as their primary program, Bye Bye Plastic Bags, as in June 2019, Bali becomes the first province in Indonesia to ban in using single-use plastics.Keywords: bye bye plastic bags, single-use plastic; zero waste lifestyle

scholarly journals Program Kemitraan Telusur Lebak Pilar dalam Mendukung Pengurangan Sampah Plastik di Kota Bogor

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Emil Radhiansyah ◽  
Adrian Wijanarko ◽  
Faris Budiman Annas
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Kota Bogor tengah mengusahakan pengurangan sampah plastik. Usaha ini diwujudkan dalam program Botak (Bogor Tanpa Kantong Plastik). Kebijakan larangan penggunaan kantong plastik di toko ritel modern dan pusat perbelanjaan itu diatur dalam Peraturan Wali Kota Nomor 61 Tahun 2018. Namun, kesadaran masyarakat Kota Bogor terhadap pengurangan penggunaan kantong plastik dan dampak terhadap lingkungan juga masih rendah. Oleh karena itu program pengabdian masyarakat Telusur Lebak Pilar dilaksanakan dan terdiri dari dua rangkaian acara yakni aksi bersih lingkungan di Lapangan Sempur Bogor dan dilanjutkan dengan seminar atau talkshow lingkungan bertemakan “Kemitraan dalam Integritas Pelestarian Lingkungan Untuk Mendukung SDGs 2030”. Hasil pengabdian masyarakat ini menghadirkan semangat kemitraan antar sektor yakni pemerintah, institusi pendidikan dan LSM dalam menjaga lingkungan dari limbah plastik dengan memberikan informasi tentang bahaya sampah plastik dan memberikan pemahanan tentang creative thinking untuk mengubah limbah plastik sehingga memiliki nilai tambah.   Bogor City is working to reducing plastic waste. The City has launched program called Botak (Bogor Tanpa Kantong Plastik). The policy to ban plastic bag use in modern retail and traditional market has been regulated in Mayor Regulation Number 61 Tahun 2018. However, awareness of local people to reducing plastic bag use and the impact plastic bag to the environment still poor. Therefore, community service called Telusur Lebak Pilar was held and consisted of two agenda which is cleaning action in Sempur Bogor Field and seminar and talkshow about environment with topic “Partnership in Integrity for Environmental Conservation to Support SDGs 2030”. The results of community service are to make collaboration partnership between government, educational institutions and NGOs in protecting environment from plastic waste by providing information about the dangers of plastic waste and providing understanding of creative thinking to change plastic waste so that it has added value.  

scholarly journals An Environmental Study on the Paid Plastic Bag Use Policy in the city of Semarang

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muslihun ◽  
Didi Dwi Anggroro ◽  
Kismartini K
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Environmental Study ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Indonesia is the second largest contributor of plastic waste in the ocean. The initiative of the central government through KLHK in reducing the generation of plastic waste is to launch a paid plastic bag policy. This policy is regulated by a circular issued by KLHK to local governments and business actors. The purpose of this study is to analyse the implementation of policies, analyse consumer behaviour and analyse the supporting and inhibiting factors in the paid plastic bag policy which is applied in the city of Semarang. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Data collection uses primary and secondary data. The results showed that the paid plastic bag policy had the support of the local government, businesses and consumers. Various efforts have been made as a form of support to reduce waste generation in accordance with the objectives of this policy. Although consumers know and support this policy, it does not change consumer behaviour much. They still use plastic bags from retail when they finish shopping. Consumers have no objections to paying IDR 200. This policy does not bring many significant changes in consumer behaviour in using new plastic bags, despite the tendency of consumers to know the impact of plastic bag waste if it is not managed properly. Consumers still seem indifferent in considering plastic bag waste as an urgent waste priority. So that this policy is still less effective in changing consumer behaviour.

Maps cannot tell the whole story: Interpreting the shitscape with a mixed methods approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-828
Author(s):  
Stephanie Terreni Brown
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Drainage Channel ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Kampala City ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Flush Toilet ◽  
The City

This article describes the participatory methods used for mapping the expectations and understandings of Kampala city and its shitscape. I defined the shitscape as the collective sanitary apparatus that the city’s inhabitants utilise, and the relationships that mediate these infrastructures and practices. Analysis of Kampala’s shitscape therefore encounters flush toilets and latrines, septic tanks and sewage pipes, and extends to plastic bags and bottles and the wastewater channels that are used to dispose of them. The analysis examines what assumptions are made about particular toileting performances and engages with knowledge(s) of the city and its sanitation infrastructures and practices. Interviews, observations and participatory mapping were conducted in numerous places throughout the city and I utilised the city’s main drainage-channel-cum-river, the Nakivubo Channel, as a transect – observing, interviewing, and conducting participatory mapping with the city’s inhabitants I met along the Nakivubo’s course. Whilst the participatory mapping methods illustrate clear distinctions in the imagination of the city as un/sanitary, un/civilised and un/modern, the qualitative research contradicts this representation. This research suggests, then, that maps – whether archival or participatory – cannot and do not tell the whole story of a city. The ethnographic and in-depth qualitative research shows that different sanitary performances, such as using a flush toilet and using a plastic bag to shit in, are in fact bound by the same moralities of waste disposal and minimising smell. Flying toilets are not, then, a symbol of disgusting and uncivil behaviour, but rather as effective toileting solutions in highly restricted circumstances.

When Silence Strikes: Derrida, Heidegger, Mallarmé

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-262
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Therezo
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This paper attempts to rethink difference and divisibility as conditions of (im)possibility for love and survival in the wake of Derrida's newly discovered—and just recently published—Geschlecht III. I argue that Derrida's deconstruction of what he calls ‘the grand logic of philosophy’ allows us to think love and survival without positing unicity as a sine qua non. This hypothesis is tested in and through a deconstructive reading of Heidegger's second essay on Trakl in On the Way to Language, where Heidegger's phonocentrism and surreptitious nationalism converge in an effort to ‘save the earth’ from a ‘degenerate’ Geschlecht that cannot survive the internal diremption between Geschlechter. I show that one way of problematizing Heidegger's claim is to point to the blank spaces in the ‘E i n’ of Trakl's ‘E i n Geschlecht’, an internal fissuring in the very word Heidegger mobilizes in order to secure the future of mankind.

Drezno w relacjach polskich osiemnastowiecznych peregrynantów. Rekonesans .

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Marcin Pliszka
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The article analyses descriptions, memories, and notes on Dresden found in eighteenth-century accounts of Polish travellers. The overarching research objective is to capture the specificity of the way of presenting the city. The ways that Dresden is described are determined by genological diversity of texts, different ways of narration, the use of rhetorical repertoire, and the time of their creation. There are two dominant ways of presenting the city: the first one foregrounds the architectural and historical values, the second one revolves around social life and various kinds of games (redoubts, performances).

Pelatihan Pengemasan Dan Pelabelan Bandeng Sapit Di UD. Barokah Gunung Anyar Tambak

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sri Winarti ◽  
Yuni Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Food Products ◽  
Food Labeling ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Law ◽  
Thin Plastic ◽  
Processed Products ◽  
The City

Gunung Anyar Tambak is one of the villages that is located adjacent to the UPN "Veteran" campus in East Java. Most (2/3) of the Gunung Anyar Tambak area is the pond area, which has the main yield is milkfish. Besides being sold in fresh form, milkfish from ponds from Gunung Anyar Tambak are also processed into a variety of processed products including shredded, crackers, soft thorns and milkfish “sapit”. Milkfish “Sapit” is a processed milkfish which is unique in its serving. The milkfish are clamped using bamboo stems and then processed using a choice of spices that make a distinctive taste in this dish. Processing by burning, causing a distinctive aroma that is not forgotten. Barokah is one of the community groups of “sapit” milkfish processing in RW I of Gunung Anyar Tambak Village which consists of 6 people. Chairman of UD. Barokan is Hj's. Khasibah, explained that most of the milkfish produced are only fulfilling orders from the surrounding area and orders from outside the city to be used as souvenirs typical of Surabaya. From observations and interviews it is known that the problem in processing milkfish is a very simple packaging that is a very thin plastic bag that is not closed. The second problem is that the packaging has no labeling at all, even though the label can identify the identity of the product in the package. The importance of labels on food products in addition to being the identity of the packaged product is also a communication between producers and consumers. Therefore a very absolute label must be given to the marketed food products. Training has been conducted on packaging and labeling milkfish “sapit” in UD. BAROKAH, Gunung Anyar Tambak, Surabaya. Before being packed with a vacuum packer, milkfish saplings are first dried in a cabinet dryer for 3 hours at 60°C. Labeling on milkfish packaging is in accordance with the law on food labeling on primary (plastic) and secondary (carton) packaging. In addition to providing training, our team also donates dryers and Vacuum Sealers.

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