Recycling has become a very controversial issue all over the world for many different cultures. America has been arguing for decades on how to properly recycle materials and how to dispose of materials appropriately. Today, the amount of trash in landfills that could be recycled is ridiculous and very unhealthy for both adults and children. There are so many landfills around the United States, that many have been grassed over and made into parks for the future children in our community to play on. If we do not start becoming more conscious of our waste, American citizens are going to be living among trash. The amount of waste in landfills could be dramatically reduced if a few small steps were taken to help America become “green”. America is already fully aware of how to recycle and the importance of being green but not enough people take the time to separate their waste from their recyclable materials. According to the dictionary of environmental science and technology “we cannot bypass the conservation laws of mass or energy and in a world of increasing material scarcity it is important to make the best use of all resources” (“Recycling”). It is crucial that America realizes the scarcity in many materials that we use in our everyday lives. If changes aren’t made, these …show more content…
Their monthly trash bill should include required payment for both trash and recycling. If citizens have to pay for recycling pick-up, they are more likely to split up their recyclable materials from their waste. The other way to help keep America green is to require schools to have recycle bins next to all the trash cans in the schools. Students are less likely to throw away a plastic bottle if a blue recycle can is right next to the trash can, creating less work for the students. Paying for recycling and assessable bins are two easy methods to grow into a conscientious
Everyday around our cities and towns people are recycling cans, newspaper, and plastic containers. If we are already doing things to improve our environment why should we need to have a new law passed stating how we recycle our trash? Careful- make a mistake, and you will be fined. Those fines, along with the increased taxes to pay for the services and personnel, make this a bad idea for taxpayers.
In “Recycling: Why Better Than Nothing Isn’t Good Enough,” Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and Nonfiction writer Edward Humes advocates this; “recycling, in short, is better than nothing, but not nearly good enough on its own” (2). Humes points out that America is quite careless with recycling and it should be made the last line of defense against waste, not the leading one. He states that choosing recycled materials over virgin one's creates energy and carbon savings. His purpose is to demonstrate that with packaging reductions, lifecycle engineering, and incentives we can cut down on our waste production and eventually, eliminate the need for recycling. Humes then concludes by discussing incentives and how they can be a
In today’s world cities and 2nd tier cities, most often our food and vegetables are transported or imported from areas that is outside the city’s boundary, and sometimes these products may have travel hundred to thousand of miles to reach the neighborhood grocery store. There are many problems arise from this unsustainable food consumption style, a few of them include the CO2 emission from transportation, chemicals use in the growing process, and the huge volume of fresh water going to waste to grow the food—that are 40% as likely to go to waste (Dana Gunders, Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill, 2012). According to Gunders, this act of dumping our uneaten food to the landfill attributes to, “$165 billion in loss annually, and a large portion of US’s methane emission.” This is a lose-lose situation, where not only are people in the US on average are losing money on uneaten food, but their unforeseen action is also driving up the level of one of the contributing gases that is causing global temperature to rise,
Watch by Peter Canby If you walk into most households around the United States, most families and individuals would argue to you that recycling is very important. These people say this because they believe that what they are throwing out is valuable enough to pay for it to be recycled and turned into new items of value. However, the article Recycling Is Garbage claims that recycling these materials that have been deemed as valuable to be pointless.
What we need to do is recycle more. We need to keep our world clean and not full of trash. Some people just think it is alright to throw their garbage out the window of their car and think that nothing will happen. Well, that 's not true! Animals that see it think of it as food and once they get into it they may get stuck or get cut on the thing that you threw out.
Many people have heard of the phrase “Go Green” which basically stands for recycling and reducing the amount of waste. “ Waste Not, Want Not” is an essay written by Bill Mckibben. He goes into great detail about how wasteful America really is. I couldn 't help but agree with this essay because the things we do in our everyday life are slowly destroying our earth. We as Americans often get more of things than we need.
To help fix this problem we all need to think about how our actions affect the environment. Recycling helps the environment and there are many other ways to help the environment If we don’t want our earth to turn into a wasteland like Thneed-ville and we are heading that direction but we can still fix it just like Ted did when he planted the Truffula Tree. One thing we could do is recycle. If people recycled the Thneeds then The Once-Ler wouldn’t have had to cut down as many trees.
I am writing to express my concern regarding the visible amount of trash in our neighborhood. The surroundings of Dentonia Park and all the way to the Golf Club are filled with pieces of paper, cans, broken toys, packages and all the sort of unwanted objects on the grass, ruining the pleasant experience of walking in the park with the children. It is a duty of each citizen to preserve the city and it is not excusable to throw away garbage on the streets, however, a few measures could serve as friendly reminders of a person’s obligation. There is a lack of garbage bins in the park and on the sidewalks and this could be one of the reasons of why people are disrespecting the environment. If there is plenty of places to dispose the garbage properly,
$ 31 billion worth of food is trashed every year in Canada. We on average throw out 1 in 5 bags of groceries. Many commercial companies and our government are ignoring this problem while the rest of the world has started to take action. Behind a Walmart store there is roughly 12 bins of consumable food thrown out. Not into the compost but into the garbage.
Many times people forget to take trash bags to the beach or simply cannot find an accessible garbage can to dispose of theirs wastes. A quick fix for this situation is to locate plenty of accessible trash cans on the beach that are labeled and classified into plastics, glass, paper and cans, therefore enhancing the importance of recycling. Ecological contamination could be diminished if the problem was in fact treated at the root. Educating children and students at a young age to preserve their only home, will create a conscience among the rising generations. Environment protection classes should be taught as a requisite in school.
Imagine living in a world where the air is polluted and most people are afraid to step outside their front door, in the near future, this may be reality for Americans. Americans throw out over 200 million tons of garbage a year, yet recycle not nearly as much. Most people do not realize it but recycling is a vital part of America’s society and if Americans do not perform this action, it will backfire on them. People in America are debating whether Americans are recycling enough and correctly. After analyzing the data, one will definitely agree that Americans need to be more educated on recycling due to the fact that most people do not know what happens after they recycle an item, nearly all Americans are recycling incorrectly, and Am To begin,
Everyday people buy plastic things from the cafeteria, from plastic containers, lids on cups, and things as small as straws, and like 50% of plastic used it will be thrown away after one use. However, do you ever stop and think, what happens to the plastic? If you’re thinking that it just magically goes away you 're wrong. It will most likely end up in a landfill somewhere or in the ocean, and as you may think that your actions do not impact the world, think again. Everyone in the world has at least used one piece of plastic, adding to the problem of plastic pollution and helping certifying the terrifying statisticc that acooording to the 2018 Earth day video, “by 2050 there will more plastic in the ocean than fish”, which almost is impossible to think of.
Should People Be Required to Recycle? If you could help your community and world for the better, what would you do? Recycling and getting others to recycle helps our Earth become cleaner and more alive, other than polluted and ruined. In some households, a table argument is whether recycling is bad or good and if it should be required.
Now we are talking about recycling. So, what actually does recycling means? Turning used materials that are labeled as recyclable over to your local waste facility designated in a disposal container as “recyclable” materials to be taken and reused as material for a new purpose defines recycling . In order to create a new and different product, a recyclable product is turned back into a raw form that can be used. Recycling efforts can significantly reduce additional waste that will not only harm the planet today , but future generations as well.
Introduction People tend to consume a lot, when there is consumption, there is waste – and that waste becomes a big problem that needs taken care of, which costs a lot of time, space and resources. If not managed, in turn, the world that we live in will become a hazardous place for all living things. According to the World Bank, people throughout the world, “spend $2.3 trillion a year on food and beverages alone” (Global Consumption Database, 2018), that is quite a lot. In addition to that, the world count mentions that, “we throw out over 50 tons of household waste every second. A number that will double by 2030”