The Circular Economya concept that is fashionable today, is older than it seems. Born in the 80’s and refers to a sustainable production modelwhere everything that is produced by industrial activity is then recycled and reused. Thus an industrial activity that does not harm the environment is achieved.
This concept is fashionable today because every time our society is more aware that industrial activity as such is not sustainabledamages the ecosystem and if not modified, it will bring serious consequences for our planetincluding the possibility of the extinction of human life.
In fact, last week one of the most important refrigerators in our country had a millionaire fine for throwing its waste into the river, which generated a very strong smell and killed the flora and fauna of the place. Likewise, another refrigerator in Virrey del Pino, (Greater Buenos Aires) had complaints from the neighbors for contaminating the drinking water tables and making the population sick. These are Two clear examples of what circular economy is not.
A great achievement of the circular economy it is the green bin. Before the garbage cans had any kind of color, but now it is known that one of the garbage cans has to be greenwhere we throw away everything that is recyclable: glass, plastics, cardboard, paper, etc. And this It is a great achievement for our society.because it is the concrete application of the circular economy.
But if we say that everything that is recyclable is thrown away in the green bin, we are saying that in the black bin we throw everything that is not recycled: the garbage that is burned, buried and ultimately pollutes. This black bin is an outstanding debt that society has towards the environment and for future generations.
Green bin recycling works because it’s profitable. There is an industry behind the collection and reuse of cardboard, glass, and plastic. That is, there are people who earn money and have an incentive to dedicate themselves to collecting that waste. But the problem with the black bin is that there are no such incentivesthen those residues are not collectedbut they are buried, burned or thrown into rivers and thus we end up with high levels of pollution.
But the good news is that that is changing. slowly. Because there are companies in the crypto world that are using that waste from the black bin to generate renewable energy, through biogas. The biogas is just a gas arises from biological waste and that is generated by bacteria that eat these wastes and when they are treated inside biodigesters, can be used to generate electricity. Green electricity. Namely, bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesoften criticized for consuming non-renewable electricity, they can become the incentive for the waste from the black bin to begin to be considered as raw material to mine cryptocurrencies.
We are facing a great paradigm shift. If they are criticized for consuming a lot of electricity, bitcoin mining and other cryptocurrencies, it can become one of the great economic incentives for companies and other agents to get involved in the treatment of waste from black binstaking the development of the circular economy to a level much higher than the current one.
CEO of Cryptogranjas, the first Argentine company to transform garbage and create Bitcoins.
Source: Ambito
