Wednesday, January 23, 2008
What a load of rubbish in Tenerife
No, I'm not talking about faux news or even carbuncles of massive tourism and, it comes (to me) as no surprise that the island of Tenerife generates 2,000 tons of residues (rubbish) each day, because we've been slowly joining the first-world in wasteful consumption levels and, of course, then there's the trash generated by and on behalf of Tenerife's 3.5 million annual foreign visitors.
Amongst other green and sustainable tourism issues, it's reported that, "The island is also working on the need for increased waste management using the principle of the 3 R's and the 3 M's: "Reduction, Recycling and Reutilisation" and "Maintenance (of the Compost Plant), Modernisation (of the Urban Waste Transfer Plants) and Management (of the six Clean Points)."
Some would burn the rubbish, but green groups are dead against that.
(Maybe we should make visitors take their rubbish home with them?)
Anyway, this load of old rubbish is, to my mind, even more insiduous. I've never been a fan of "political correctness", because it opens up all kinds of possibilities to "pretty up" - hide - exactly such cases as this. Press reports these days constantly mention something that now appears to have been renamed the Complejo Medioambiental de Arico (Arico Environmental Complex).
See a photo of the (cough) "Environmental Complex" for yourself.
Soon they'll be calling it a tourist attraction.
It nearly goes without saying that, if we continue to generate this much rubbish (not to mention hot air emissions from politicians), it may become a larger tourist attraction than Mount Teide, but please, lets call it what it is: a landfill site; an eyesore; a smelly, disgusting corporation rubbish tip!
