Crimes against cleanliness. Crimes against the environment. Beginning in 2004, those were captions I used to show off my grasp of the challenges and possibilities with respect to the daily, necessary and vital issue of solid waste management. What a quaint, modern-day description for the storage and disposal of all sorts of garbage.
Garbage, waste, trash is like the poor: it is destined to be always with us in some form, throughout our lives. Why? Because as we live the life we ourselves or other forces fashion for us, some waste will be generated.
So why have I returned to this issue? Does it have to do with one of our now frequent scandal- controversies- the