1.The Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
It is not always clear in our battle against the garbage, whether one is successful or not. It is like the difference between a glass half full and a glass half empty: Success or failure is in the eye of the beholder:
- The airport dump: a success for sure: after Clean Sharm reported the illegal dumping, the offending company was heavily fined and forced to restore the area. But it is still a failure towards nature – even after they left, the place is destroyed, the area is not at all back to the old state…
- The Clean Up at Aida cliff last month revealed a shocking behavior of some villa owners, who opened their private dump behind their houses. Huge piles of construction rubble and normal household waste blemish the beautiful cliff. We had success: after the first shock and frustration about the seemingly unmovable mess, just ONE phone call to Mr. Ahmed Salah, Sharm’s mayor, brought a loader and him in person to the scene, and SES provided a big container, all within half hour after the initial phone call! Failure: even the loader could not remove most of what is on either side of the wall, it is just too much and too far spread…
- AIDA dumping: ONE active Sharmer stopped the illegal dumping down of the cliff of Aida, a success. Failure: just short time after trucks (possible the same) started to dump their waste just few hundred meters further on, in front of the Water Plant at City Council Street…
...and so on – the story of Sharm’s battle against pollution is a constant back and forth.
The illegal airport dump place in November 2009...
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and in February 2010.... a tiny step forward.... |
However, we at CLEAN SHARM see the glass half full – we ARE on our way, and we WILL reach a change.
This will hopefully become obvious in April, when we will do a BIG HUGE DESERT CLEAN UP!
(Probably on Saturday 17/4, mark that day from now!)
Right now we are collecting our troops, as that is what is needed: a whole brigade of fighters against the dirt. We hope to have hundreds of helpers: staff from all hotels in Sharm, we hope the schools will join, and we count on YOU!
The more we are, the more help we will also get from others, e.g. businesses, garbage companies, the City Council and the South Sinai Government. For the desert we need more than just the normal (small) crowd of helpers hand-picking rubbish: apart from needing hundreds of hands, we als want to get loaders and trucks and other professional equipment and workers!
Aida 2009......
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one step forward,
one step back....
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... and few hundreds meter further in 2010. |
We will show the world, that we are a strong army in the garbage battle and fight to get the beautiful nature of Sharm back, which has drawn us here.
Sign up for the desert clean up now – and watch the news on our website www.cleansharm.org and the facebook group Clean Sharm.
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We want the BEAUTY of the desert back!
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Next Clean Up: Saturday, 6th of MARCH, 2010 at 10 am, Kennedy Mall area!
We meet in front of METRO supermarket.
Come and join!
CLEAN SHARM TIP OF THE MONTH:
Use a Mug and not a Plastic Cup!
Every year, vending machines in the UK dispense 3 billion polystyrene cups.
Another 3 billion originate from other sources. Where do they all come from?
Is there some mad genius breeding them in underground bunkers?
Why not put your coffee into a mug, not a plastic cup?
And don't go to Coffee Shops and snack bars where they serve you drinks or food in one-way dishes.
It'll taste better, and you'll be doing your bit for the planet.
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