Collective wastes of individual organisms constituting a community, if allowed to accumulate to any marked degree, will eventually destroy the lives of all the community members.
El Hajj Diallo, the president of the landfill's collective of waste pickers, told us that, because he has found so many dead babies here, he wants Senegal to legalize abortion, at least for victims of rape and incest.
Bournemouth's Arts by the Sea Festival (20 September to 12 October, artsbournemouth.org.uk/festival) – a mix of outdoor performance, live music, film screenings, silent discos and vintage markets – kicks off with a weekend of free events, including a sculptural parade and performance from art collective Mutoid Waste (creators of the 2012 Paralympic Games closing ceremony ).
Overall, the results indicated that the collective usage of waste PET derived additives and scrap tyre rubber in asphalt not only helps recycle waste plastic and rubber, but also improves the engineering properties of asphalt pavement.
Today, with the AFL rampant and the Socceroos firmly implanted as the country's first national non-cricket love, the temptation is to look at the state of rugby in Australia – failure at the last two World Cups, ritual canings by the All Blacks, all that collective brain energy wasted on discussions over what to do with Quade Cooper – and wonder: what happened?
It is in our collective interest to reduce waste, and yet we do not.
Building on their model of co-operativism, the Danes legislated that urban inhabitants had to connect to city systems for the collective good of minimising waste and cutting national energy imports.
If they do not have the capacity or desire to align with the expectations I have for my life, that is not their fault nor is it up to me to find excuses of why I should continue to waste our collective time.
