What do you see on the side of the road just waiting to be picked up rather than left there to be rolled over? Clearly thrown out by careless drivers (or passengers) garbage is littered all over highways. “Small trash can make a big mess in Texas,” Greg Abbott, our governor claims. I agree with him. Visualize this. A tree is cut down to make resources for humans to use. If someone decides to throw it out a window, how will that help the earth? We take and abuse. That is the way humans are now. Not all, but most. We can’t see through deception. If we took all the garbage in this world and circled it around earth, it would go around over one hundred time. One century ago, we had enough trash to circle the world seven times. Our world has grown …show more content…
A gurgle sound came from the fluid in my intestines. “I’m hungry,” I muttered to myself. It seems I wasn’t alone. Around me everywhere I heard unbearably annoying moaning. It was the first day of 6th grade so no one was used to such a long wait to eat. By the end of Basics class with Mrs. Pulse, an awesome teacher, we all got to eat lunch. We were pointed toward the table we were supposed to be seated at. Before we were able to get our lunch, Principal Broughton told us about a new recycle program that the school had enforced. It made sure that each student dispose of their garbage in a way that gives back to the environment. I did as I was told and left without any emotion of joy or happiness. It was now the second day of school and it felt longer than the first. How long would it be before I got the taste of food again? My stomach made a funky blurp noise and I was feeling very odd. Lunch was similar to yesterday. More talk about recycling, trash, waste and more stuff. I was bored out of my wits and waited to get lunch as the Principal talked on. Then something caught my attention. What did she just say? Eleven trash bags reduced to seven? Our left over fruits and vegetables reused for compost? Our plastic trash recycled? Her words inspired me. I felt proud to make such a big change like
This project was a lot harder then my family and I ever expected it to be. At first we thought it would be good and we would feel better about not wasting and not having as much trash. But after a couple of days we noticed that we couldn’t do a lot of things we normally do like wipe our hands on a napkin or use a straw to drink at a resturaunt. We as a whole had to make a lot of changes like making our foods the night before and bringing clean towels with us everywhere we went. This project has really made us open our eyes to see what we were actually doing to hurt our environment just by going through our daily routine.
The article, “Food Waste Is Becoming Serious Economic and Environmental Issue, Report Says,” by Ron Nixon, talks about food waste and of plans on how to stop it. Specifically, Nixon argues that there are millions of people all over the country that don’t have enough to eat. Also that there are people that go to bed hungry most days, while others are throwing away extra scraps they didn’t eat. Nixon writes about the tons of food thrown in the trash every week, resulting in economic and environmental issues. Also about how the Earth’s landfills then get filled up with even more garbage.
In her essay entitled “Garbage” from The Norton Sampler journalist Katie Kelley states that the cause of New York’s garbage problem results from the nonchalant attitude of its citizens. New Yorkers have a nonchalant attitude toward moral behavior. Kate Kelly stresses that New York in general has as a distorted view of life’s problems. Kelley writes “New Yorkers are a provincial lot. They wear their city’s accomplishment like blue ribbons.
Environmental justice is in many ways a safety net used when humanity has destroyed the earth to the point humans no longer can live a healthy life style. This coincides with mother cultures perception. The taker mentality views the world as centered on humanity, for the earth is nothing more than a, “…human life-support system, as a machine designed to produce and sustain human life”(59). In other words, the world is meant to sustain man and nothing more. Therefore, humans do not have to take care of the earth, the earth is meant to take care of humanity.
I 'm so hungry!” I whinned. “Here eat a snack.” My mom told me.
In the essay “Garbage,” author Katie Kelley indicates, via her supportive evidence, that the careless and non-chalant attitude New Yorkers have towards garbage not only does not solve the problem but just adds more to it. New Yorkers, blinded by their thoughtless outlook, take things that are garbage and present it to the public as something that is valuable, creating sort of a deadly cycle that worsens the garbage overflow. Katie Kelley implicates the image of garbage in the city by saying “Come Fall, offices all around New York City Hall are decorated with gourds and pumpkins harvested at Fresh Kills” (108). The pumpkins that were thrown away earlier by New Yorkers are coming back into the city as beautifications. At the end of the autumn season the
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.
When this happens it causes adverse effects on the environment. It can be done in a variety of ways from cutting to burning. Either way mass deforestation is bad and needs to stop before it is too late. One culprit of our deforestation is
During school, we 've always been taught a little about pollution, how to recycle and even practiced a few things that will help improve this issue. This has been an ongoing issue for years and it can make some feel like what 's the use of trying to make a change now. Don 't get me wrong, things have been done, but more could be done as well. I myself could make a few changes too. If we really researched the damage that these things are doing to our precious earth we would want to do more.
My stomach grumbled repeatedly. I hadn’t eaten for a while, but I was used to it. Being that I only got a little bit of food and water for breakfast, I was trained to ration out my portions for the week. The hunger wasn’t something new, but this time it was a tremendous amount of pain in my stomach. I thought to myself how could being hungry make my stomach hurt so much.
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,
This act has a lot of cause and effects. Removing trees leaves animals with no place
After I had used the restroom, I stepped out of the bathroom and made sure to look behind my back, to make sure the substitute teacher wasn’t following me. I went down the hallway, which felt longer than usual. I had a weird voice in the back of my head saying “ I don’t think this is an exquisite idea.” Like I usually do I ignored it because I like to live in the moment, no just kidding; I’m just not that bright. So when I got to the science classroom door, I slowly opened it to make sure no one was in the room.
Nowadays debris is an integral part of humanity life. Mankind thinks about how to make the product easier and cheaper to use, but nobody cares what happens with waste after it was used. We contaminate the environment with every decade increasingly: muddied air and water, global warming are an output of human life. The worst thing is that from such attitude other living beings are dying. Millions of animals and birds cannot withstand such environmental changes; their populations become smaller and, eventually, disappear altogether from the face of the earth.
I cannot recall any other time I experienced so much joy and satisfaction. It was on the warmth of a spring day in March, 2015. After finishing the spring semester at high school, the school gives students a one-week holiday to relax or to go somewhere. A beach trip in the spring is always a good idea for us who live near the sea, but this time I was on the bus with my classmates heading to the airport. The school had organized a Habitat Trip to the Philippines, where my classmates and I decided to go to build houses.