Testo di Armando Boccone
Da qualche tempo a Bologna, nella città in cui vivo, ho notato un particolare fenomeno. Quando piove i cestini dei rifiuti che sono sistemati lungo le strade si popolano di un rifiuto “particolare”: l’ombrello.
Sono ovviamente ombrelli che si sono rotti e che quindi vengono buttati via.
Il fenomeno è particolarmente evidente quando piove a dirotto e tira vento: si verifica una ecatombe di ombrelli rotti che sono buttati via dappertutto.
Può darsi che questo fenomeno sia sempre avvenuto and that I have never noticed or maybe it is a modern phenomenon: it may be that there are more umbrellas than once!
Read more I had to do a search. In large stores such as supermarkets and outdoor markets I looked at the label of umbrellas for sale. All contained the phrase "Made in China and 100% Polyester (though sometimes there was only the second expression). In the street markets where vendors noticed my interest umbrellas hurried at once to tell me the price: it was always between 3 and 5 euro. In other exercises instead the price ranged from 5 to 10 Euros.
But the research could not be confined to questo. Negli ultimi tempi quando a Bologna ha piovuto sono uscito e nel percorso che ho fatto ho dato una occhiata agli ombrelli buttati nei cestini dei rifiuti: ho dato una occhiata nel senso che li prendevo, li aprivo e leggevo l’etichetta.
Qualcuno il lavoro sporco dovrà pur farlo!! Forse si riferiva a questo un professore dell’Università che ho frequentato quando diceva, a proposito della ricerca sociale, che questo comportava sporcarsi le mani!
Comunque, tornando al tema, la lettura dell’etichetta ha dato questo risultato: Made in China e 100% Polyestere (ma alle volte c’era solamente questa seconda espressione). Per la precisione una volta ho trovato scritto Made in Marocco e un’altra Once I found the suggestion of a known brand of luggage and accessories.
China now has become one of the largest manufacturers in the world. It 'obvious that in China there are also quality production as in many other parts of the world. China, however, expresses the highest degree the trend is now widespread in the economy which is the increase of that fetish is GDP (gross domestic product) and that means we have to produce things that need to be short-lived in order to buy more now . There is talk of goods and planned obsolescence. Some goods are also made so that they can not be repaired.
But how long will last this trend continued development economy? According to many scholars can not have an unlimited growth in a world that is limited. The prospects that are outlined are very bad right now even if we change the behavior.
I remember as a child on the streets of my country went the umbrella. Clearly then, the umbrellas were made to last and then they were made good, and of course, is why on other grounds, agreed to repair them.
last search I did on discarded umbrellas finally broke my umbrella (this made me think of the concept of "participatory research" that he used one of my professors about the social research). It was an umbrella for those who become smaller and are comfortable to wear but it was held for some time now that I opened and closed with difficulty.
I asked a colleague where I could buy an umbrella: he pointed to a Chinese shop that is around the corner!
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