Sustainability and Waste Management

Waste Management
Sustainability is very important when it comes to our environment and the removal of our waste. Why should we remove our waste properly and what are the benefits of removing of it properly? For starters leaving waste in the environment can seriously damage wildlife kill major ecosystems and so on, not to mention the unsightliness of it and smell in our homes and neighborhoods. There are also great benefits to removing waste properly like cost to an individual it can help you save a lot of money. It will keep are environment clean and full of life and leave the earth better for future generation.

There are three simple ways that most companies use to help decrease the amount of waste we put out in the world and they are reducing, reuse, and recycle. These are three simple ways to better help our environment. Reducing is very simple if we reduce the amount of trash we use there will be less to throw away like using reseal able bags and containers that can be used again or finding ways to not use waste in the first place. Reusing is also simple like I stated above using thing over and over again will cut down on the waste we put out. Recycling is something that may be more difficult for most people to do but can help tons in waste management recycling is the simple act of taking something that was used and making it into another product that is usable for someone else.

When it comes to not disposing of our waste properly and hurting wildlife most people underestimate how much throwing a piece of trash on the ground is really hurting our environment. Most people believe that if I throw this on the ground it should dissolve in a few days but that is not the case it takes up to thirty years for a piece of plastic to dissolve in the ground and over fifty years for a simple six pack holder. Disposing of waste on the ground also brings around critters that are not wanted in our environment like rats and raccoons. So just think about that for a second if there was no such thing as waste management and people simple just discarded of trash in their yards it would take many years for any of that to go away and would probably kill most of what it sits on and be harmful to any animals that come across this stuff not to mention the damage it does to trees and other plants. Leaving trash around also spreads unwanted disuses and can cause personal injury to anyone that comes into contact with it.

There are also some major benefits to discarding of waste properly. The more people that recycle the cheaper it gets, also it is much cheaper to recycle than it is to remove waste and start more landfills and add to the ones we already have. When it comes to saving you some money or leaving the earth better than it was when we got here. Recycling also creates 1.1 million jobs and grossed 236 billion dollars annually. Every time you recycle you are creating four jobs so the more people who do it create more jobs and pump more money into our economy. When we use recycled paper we saving money by buying cheaper paper and not having to cut down more trees, which everyone knows, are very important for the survival of any life. Also recycling steel can provide energy for millions of households around the globe. But also this creates jobs and improves living conditions for everyone.

There really are not too many skeptics when it comes to not removing of waste properly but those we don’t really know the effects of adding improper waste to our environment. But with a little education on the issue almost everyone would be pro choice on recycling. This issue is a great one because we are talking about our future and need to keep our earth in shape for our future residents and through the act of removing waste properly we can see to it that this happens. There are many ways we can educate the youth and our population on why we should continue to use waste management

Work Cited page
National Recycling Coalition. "Waste Management." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 10 Aug. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management>. Work Cited page

Citation added:
"Waste Management." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 22 Jan. 2008. Web. 10 Aug. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management>.Braungart, Michael. "Waste Management." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 10 Aug. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management>.

Cited: page Citation added: "Waste Management." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 22 Jan. 2008. Web. 10 Aug. 2011. &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management&gt;.Braungart, Michael. "Waste Management." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 10 Aug. 2011. &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management&gt;.