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    Waste
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    Waste

    By Paul Palmer

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    Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite offers a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFomite
    Release dateJan 20, 2017
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      Waste - Paul Palmer

      Waste

      We live in a world, a society, where waste is taken for granted. The ubiquitous garbage can beckons everywhere, offering free or cheap receptacles for anything we don’t want. An automobile may be forced to keep running for twenty years but normally it goes to the scrap heap after seven. A television can last for decades but will it still process the current signals and connect to modern equipment? Tools and appliances last just until the warranty expires and then they disintegrate. In the industrial center, where most waste is generated, the situation is no better. Packaging abounds. Raw materials arrive in trainloads of cardboard boxes which serve for a single use and then are smashed and baled. The raw materials themselves arrive in large pieces that are cut and shaped leaving abundant scraps to be thrown away. Electricity is consumed in batches of hundreds of kilowatts for gigantic machinery which also use up heat for melting, drying or gluing and the heat is then thrown away into the air, a river or the sea. Profligate waste is the norm in every corner of our society for a simple reason. Materials and energy are considered to be cheap. Usually much cheaper than labor though that too is changing as labor is replaced with computers, with outsourcing and with the desperate unemployed.

      The worst wasting goes unrecognized. We are a visual species. What we see is what we believe in. If we see a crate of outdated peaches thrown into dumpster we may bemoan the waste of those specific peaches but we never think of the work that went into producing them that will now have to be repeated because the world wants peaches. The same with poorly made VCR’s, cellphones, computers, desks, windows, kitchen cabinets, clothes, bicycles, houses and packages. We

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