we throw out 1 kg/person/day of garbage, most of it ends up in the landfill, and the scavengers only add to the problem
How do scavengers only add to the problem?
Have you ever seen those roads with garbage sorters? Like the collection points for trash, where there are HUGE bins and super early in the morning all these people in orange suits separate that shit out on the street into various piles and sort it all. Those are the city employees, but, before it even gets to them I’m sure most of the trash has been scavenged and recyclables or scrap materials collected for recycling/reselling. I don’t understand though, how any of that *adds* to the problem, wouldn’t it decrease the amount of shit that ends up in the landfills?
Also, the amount of waste per person in China, from what I read, is actually quite a bit lower than many western countries..not the case?