SO WHAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO LANDFILL CELLS

The questions 'what next' and 'what instead' actually do have a viable and sustainable answer. Currently in Australia, like elsewhere in the so-called DEVELOPEDworld the economy has become misshapen via the imaginings of HOMEplaces as investments. That somewhat surreal concept brings about one-size-fit-all imaginings brought on by INVESTMENTthinking. Mostly the building of the infrastructure needs to LONGlived to justify the investment of resources and time to deliver a dividend at a future date or some imagined time ahead.

The time it takes to realize a dividend from an infrastructure investment can vary significantly, but it generally takes at least a number of years, potentially spanning multiple generations. Unlike a short-term investment, infrastructure projects often have long lifespans and generate returns over decades intended for the benefit of a number of generations.

While some infrastructure investments might start generating returns relatively quickly – say within a few years for the housing of people – others, particularly large-scale projects –say decades for the housing of enterprises/businesses – might require several decades to fully realise their investment potential. The concept of a "dividend" in this context might refer to financial returns. However, broader benefits like improved quality of life, economic development, and enhanced public services, which can have intergenerational impacts but not always by necessity.

The ill considered factor in the case of housing and HOMEmaking is that the housing investment factor typically demands a fiscal dividend, often within an unrealisable timeframe, which in turn sends investors on a fiscal merry-go-round with the demand for inputs ever increasing. As sure a GOD made little apples the merry-go-round was ultimately bound break and fail – and it has.

Homelessness is a symptom of a strategic fiscal failure. In many ways it can be claimed to be deliberate in the way homelessness is tolerated in statusvquoism. A society visibly fails when its entire population is not being sheltered in safety.

"In the international human rights context, the concept of a right to housing is found in the right to an ‘adequate standard of living’ as, for example, in article 11(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)... Other international treaties to which Australia is a party also have something to say about a nation’s obligations in relation to housing – for example, concerning children, people with disabilities and women. First and foremost, the right to housing does not stand alone. Rather, it is ‘integrally linked to other human rights’." ... Rosalind Croucher ... Sandy Duncanson Memorial Lecture 2022

Finland has effectively combatted homelessness through its "Housing First" approach, which prioritizes providing permanent housing with support services to individuals experiencing homelessness. A key quote summarizing Finland's approach is: "Homelessness isn't a lack of character, it's a lack of a house". Finland's success has attracted attention from other countries, with many seeking to learn from their experience and implement similar strategies.

The 'wastefulness of homelessness' runs parallel to the 'wastefulness of LANDfill'. They are both symptoms of strategic fiscal failure and the status quoism that togeher tolerate the malady and brings it about. The people of Finland do not tolerate homelessness and together they have protected each other from its consequences.

Unsurprisingly, Finland has ambitious goals for resource recovery and circular economy, aiming to double the circular material use rate by 2035 compared to 2015. This includes limiting raw material consumption and increasing resource productivity.

Finland is also committed to reducing LANDfill in its municipalties thus improving recycling rates for plastics and construction waste. Finland has set targets to double its circular material use rate by 2035, meaning more resources will be reused, recycled, or recovered instead of going to waste.

Interestingly Finland aims to keep raw material consumption in 2035 at the same level as in 2015, excluding raw materials used in products for export. As well, Finland is working to double its resource productivity by 2035.

So, LANDfill has a viable and planable alternative:

• That can be planned for; and
• Does not impinge upon productivity outcomes; and
• Contributes to a sustainable CULTURALlandscape;and
• That is achievable relative to the 'effort' invested rather than money invested.

The notion that some CIVICplanners entertain that CULTURALlandscapes are reflection of the physicality and qualities of a place, not anything humanity does, is a misreading of 'placedness'.

Even so, within places there are NONplaces and the land used in cities can be divided into into Places and NONplaces. Places are for people, places are destinations, there are place to sleep, places to shop, places to work, or simply a places to relax. Places are purposeful and they are destinations. Buildings' interiors are the most common form of 'places' to be found in cities, and include; homes, parks and gardens, plazas, snd peoplev focused streets

NONplaces are the padding between destinations. For instance Non-Places include; roads, freeways. car parks, and greenspace. [REFERENCE]... [See Link]

Places are made and shaped by the people who occupy them and they reflect the layers of expression of the cultural realities to be found in them and that the people live within. Placemaking is something we all do.