Essay About Smokey Mountain

“Smokey Mountain” is where garbage are so accumulated that it became like mountain. It sounds a story, but it actually exist in Manila, Philippine. Hundreds of children live there, surrounded by enormous amount of garbage. They look for something useful for them from mountain of garbage because of poverty. Other problems such as health problems have risen due to the sanitary situation of the Smokey Mountain (Lovino). This is what is happening now in Asia. Asian countries have fallen behind so-called developed countries such as US, Japan and European countries in terms of economy and development. Recently, those developing Asian countries are trying to become developed countries. Because development is prior to protection of the environment,

Garbage is gathered in somewhere no one lives, and piled up like a mountain. Garbage is not classified depending on it is burnable, non-burnable or oversize garbage (“Nihon”). Scavenger, who look for something valuable from accumulations of garbage and collect them, come to live around mountain of garbage and make a living by collecting and selling those items (Lack). Garbage mountain becomes verminous as soon as it is thrown away, so people fire them to kill insects. But this fire sometimes kill people as well as vermin (“Nihon”). It seems that garbage problem is related to various problems in developing countries such as air pollution, soil pollution, and health problem. Fire may cause air pollution. Tremendous amount of garbage may cause soil pollution. Uncleanliness may cause health problem. This is the real situation of waste management in developing countries. The biggest difference of garbage problems between developing countries and developed countries is waste management. Waste management in developed countries is established in three following points: way of processing waste, citizen’s consciousness of garbage, and way of not producing