Since garbage is taken to landfills most people perceive the issues of their trash as out of sight-out of mind type of situation, but the amount of trash currently present on Earth is no big fuss because it would not cover much. In this article the support of this sub claim comes from A. Clark Wiseman of Spokane's Gonzaga University, he discloses “At the current rate, Americans could put all of the trash generated over the next 1,000 years into a landfill 100 yards high and 35 miles square. Or dig a similar-size hole and plant grass on top after it was…
Solution: Come together as a community and work 30 minutes a week to reduce the amount of trash in the world. ( like that will help lol )…
There’s a freshman in one of my classes who always wears thick, dark eyeliner and other excessive makeup. For a couple of days the other week, she stopped. The first time I saw her without makeup, it was weird; I had never seen her without it before. A few days later, she came back with eyeliner and a fresh layer of foundation on her face. I remembered the face I saw just the day before; even though the makeup was pretty, she was pretty without all the extra effects. That same day during class she told me about how there was a guy snapchatting her. They made a bet that she wouldn’t be able to go without makeup for two days. She continued to tell me how that morning, she put on her makeup and sent him a snapchat. He responded…
It is clear that garbage is considered a problem. But pinpointing where the actual, factual and calculable problem lies is often very murky. Millennials seem to be confused or ambiguous to the problem of throw away consumption and we all hear we’re running out of planets every year in the summer. (Hume 2010; King etc. 2006)…
In 2013 we produced 254 million tons of waste. Of this 254 million tons: we recycled 34%, which isn't a bad number. But of the rest of our waste that ends up in landfills: half could be recycled. That’s 84 million tons of waste that could be reused. So why are we just letting it get buried with the rest of our garbage? Recycling may be expensive and inconvenient in the beginning. But research shows the long term benefits of mandatory recycling programs. These benefits outweigh the initial inconvenience and expense.…
The most significant effect that people have on the environment is the power to choose to pollute it. Ever wonder about all the ways we pollute the world everyday? Probability not, nowadays people are more careless about the environment. Sadly, because of our actions the world is being destroyed. Since people are becoming lazy and not throwing their trash away, the environment is swimming in litter. Also, because of our trash millions of innocent animals are dying each year from consuming or getting stuck in garbage. Plus all of the pollute we make is causing global warming. We humans have a major impact on the world, and every little thing we do affects it. So…
According to www.sciencedaily.com, in 2008 there was so much garbage they had 378,000 volunteers help cleanup garbage. Also garbage causes pollution and climate change and habitat destruction. Each year garbage kills over a million animals. From some garbage wrapping around animals flippers and amputating them. Additionally garbage can cut marine life and create infections. Also ocean currents have been carrying debris into all major oceanic gyres (spiral or vortex) for decades. They recorded a tin entered in the ocean In 1986 and will decompose until 2036. That is why everyone should recycle.…
In todays world it is common knowledge of the issues with recycling and pollution. However, there is a way to help slow down the process of over-running our earth. A new initiative is being spoken about, three trash cans for each method of recycling:compost, paper and plastic, and landfill. Other ways include recycling centers, projects for turning your no longer useable items into recycled treasures. I firmly believe in adopting and putting these into practice in our United States with only minor changes. We only have one earth so we have to take care of it.…
I feel it would be very helpful if all businesses, schools, churches, restaurants and private homes would setup recycling. It is easy to do and it would help with the amount of trash that is produced every day. It would be easier to recycle it into something use like renewable energy.…
The Gogreen initiative proposed is a great idea. There is entirely too much waste on this planet. In order for any change to be made we must initiate the change ourselves. Trash pick up teams on major roads and highways are effective ways of trash clean up, but is it enough?…
* "Recycling is so beneficial for our planet that it should definitely be required. In an ideal world, everyone would voluntarily recycle, but let's face it: That's never going to happen. It makes me so angry when I watch students in my school throw their plastic water bottles in the trash can when there is a recycling can right next to it!…
Between 1960 and 1986 the amount of American trash has grown 80% from 87.5mill tons to 157 tons per year, not including the 90 million tons created by industry every year. In 1988 over 70% of the landfills were closed, the US government then had to figure out how we were going to deal with this huge amount of trash each year. The 4 main solutions they came up with were opening more landfills, incineration, shipping out of the country, and oh yeah Recycling. Three out of these four were very bad, both ecologically and ethically. But the fourth one on the other hand was very good, it reduced energy use to make knew products, saved the wilderness by not dumping trash on it, and best of all created basically new products without almost any waist.…
Did you know that the average person generates 4 pounds of garbage a day and 1.5 tons a year? And 70% of our dumps are recyclable? This is a huge problem because the landfills are getting full. If they get too full, we have to find a new area and pay larger bills. Here in America, we only recycle 5% of our plastic products. We used enough bottles to wrap around the Earth 190 times. 5% of that is a very little amount. It takes 47 million gallons of oil to produce enough bottles for the US in one year. If we were to recycle more, we wouldn’t have to use all of this energy. Also, paper bags aren’t being recycled. In 2009, an estimated 100 billion paper bags were used and 99.4% were in landfills. One 15 year old tree could produce only about 700.…
Have you ever wonder what can you do about the bottles and cans you find around you? People that don’t care about the world being clean are littering the place. It makes things very difficult to put up for. Recycling cans and bottles can help save the earth form waste and trash build up and can make new things that why recycling should be mandatory and there should be recycling cans in various locations at school and everywhere else. Recycling should be mandatory because recycling can help to keep our planet clean in many ways.…
"Why not just get rid of radioactive waste and other trash by simply shooting it into space?" This question has passed peoples lips before but has never been a major subject. I personally think that this would work perfectly; it would eliminate the need to dispose of trash in other, more harmful ways. It would also reduce the litter and trash that is literally covering our planet. Sure there are facilities that specialize in getting rid of trash. There are even whole companies whose job it is to eliminate trash. But how fast are they going? Are these efforts by various groups enough to stop or even stem the flow of trash from all branches of the consumer markets? Simply blasting all the trash into deep space could possibly eliminate these factors and dispose of the trash and toxic waste in a way that would not even harm anything on Earth. The process wouldn’t even use human involvement; computers can determine the course of trash if it is done right and safely dispose of it far enough away from Earth to be forgotten about. Blasting trash and toxic/radioactive waste into the endless void known as space would benefit our planet’s surface by keeping it cleaner as well as our planets atmosphere.…