Do We Live in a Throw Away Society?
Do We Live In a Throw Away Society?
There are many discussions that show belief that we do in fact live in a throw away society. There are numerous ways they are trying to prevent that, such as recycling more different varieties of products, and finding out which are most harmful to recycle more. Then there’s also ways around the idea of helping out the environment, but in the long run it doesn’t benefit as much as we think it is. But majority votes that we are a throw away society but there are a lot of different ways to help that. In some neighborhoods, going down the alley you can see the bright blue trash cans and know right away that those are for recycling cans. But how many of those neighborhoods really are there? The communities that do the best with recycling are the ones who work together. So wouldn’t it make sense to work together not only as a community, city or state, but better as a country? Yes, that would be ideal but it doesn’t always work that way. According to Wikipedia, “the United States Environmental Protection Agency oversees a variety of waste issues. These include regulation of hazardous wastes, landfill regulations, and setting recycling goals. More specific recycling legislation is localized through city or state governments. Further regulation is reserved for individual states to create. State regulation falls into two major categories: landfill bans and recycling goals.” (Wikipedia, 2008) So basically we need to start small to go big. All that is needed is participation from the people to make the small changes, big ones. Not many know what differences recycling takes place in our environment. Well, “recycling paper cuts air pollution by about 75%; substituting steel scrap for virgin ore reduces air emissions by 85% and water pollution by 76%.” (El Dorado County, CA-Environmental Management, 2008) So even those daily small things we use like paper can make the biggest difference when they are recycled. And it is not that hard to
There are many discussions that show belief that we do in fact live in a throw away society. There are numerous ways they are trying to prevent that, such as recycling more different varieties of products, and finding out which are most harmful to recycle more. Then there’s also ways around the idea of helping out the environment, but in the long run it doesn’t benefit as much as we think it is. But majority votes that we are a throw away society but there are a lot of different ways to help that. In some neighborhoods, going down the alley you can see the bright blue trash cans and know right away that those are for recycling cans. But how many of those neighborhoods really are there? The communities that do the best with recycling are the ones who work together. So wouldn’t it make sense to work together not only as a community, city or state, but better as a country? Yes, that would be ideal but it doesn’t always work that way. According to Wikipedia, “the United States Environmental Protection Agency oversees a variety of waste issues. These include regulation of hazardous wastes, landfill regulations, and setting recycling goals. More specific recycling legislation is localized through city or state governments. Further regulation is reserved for individual states to create. State regulation falls into two major categories: landfill bans and recycling goals.” (Wikipedia, 2008) So basically we need to start small to go big. All that is needed is participation from the people to make the small changes, big ones. Not many know what differences recycling takes place in our environment. Well, “recycling paper cuts air pollution by about 75%; substituting steel scrap for virgin ore reduces air emissions by 85% and water pollution by 76%.” (El Dorado County, CA-Environmental Management, 2008) So even those daily small things we use like paper can make the biggest difference when they are recycled. And it is not that hard to