Green Collar Jobs
By Amit Singh | Sunday, May 9th, 2010 | Policy
I recently returned from a vacation to Egypt and Jordan where I saw many incredible historical sights and beautiful scenes. As I love to do when travelling abroad, I try to experience the local flair as much as possible. Luckily on this trip, I was able to go “off-the-grid” with a makeshift tour guide who was willing to take us to places the certified guides would not. One of the places he took us were caves on the outskirts of Cairo that were converted into Christian churches. While the churches themselves were awesome, the path to them was even more intriguing to me.
To reach the church caves, we had to traverse through a village, nicknamed “Rubbish City”, which actually has a contract with the Egyptian government to receive its trash and sort it for recycling plants. Each family had a different specialty (i.e. picking green bottles vs rubber tires) and are doing quite well compared to their peers. I learned single stream recycling in the U.S. is done with a lot of technology including conveyor belts, sensors, magnets, and eddy currents. However, this technology is not cheap and most jurisdictions cannot afford the initial capital costs to get started.
What I recommend should make liberals and conservatives cheer alike. Let’s make those convicted and jailed pay back society by performing separation of recyclable goods from the trash. Simultaneously it will help the environment and reduce the “coolness” factor of wearing an orange jumpsuit. Sadly, I’m sure we’ll figure out a way to construe this as “cruel and unusual” punishment.
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5 Responses to "Green Collar Jobs"
Great recommendation. Will any in our government go for it? Will our “green” friends support it?
For decades, environmentalism has been the Left’s best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It’s for Mother Earth! It’s for the children! It’s for the whales!
The Medieval Warm Period – a global phenomenon, unprecedented warming, or unprecedented data manipulation?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/
I am a pro-whale person and would support a global ban on the killing of whales. Save the whales!!!
I believe the Chinese make prisoners work in jail. Perhaps we can do the same and increase arrests so we can have a large prison population to work and enrich the prison authorities. Great idea, increase profits for prisons. And as for environmentalism what’s the use? In 2050 there will be 9 billion people living on earth. There are no environmental laws in China and their government is more controlling than ours the last I checked. Do you want to live in a polluted place like China? I doubt it.
we already have a large prison population. this is one way to make jail a little less glamorous while also getting some production out of it.
regardless, I do think we should get some benefit from those in jail.
I’ve never heard of this, I’m glad to read about it, and I think it’s a great idea!
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