Environment short essay
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shinelumierefinished the essay
it's short, but I'm at a loss for anything to add, maybe if I'd started work on it sooner *shrug*
Rinse, Re-use, Recycle!
Recycling is a very worthwhile cause. However it is met with both favorable and non-favorable opinions. At one end are the people that see little if any point in recycling, that it has no true effect on the amount of waste that goes into the land fill. To the other extreme, are the people that feel that recycling is not only 100 % effective, but that it is the only way to save the planet from mass destruction...perhaps I exaggerated a bit, but not by much, I'm sure.
I find myself at the mid-point between these two extremes, yes; I feel that recycling is a good thing, both for our environment, and for our continued future. However, I also realize, that while recycling helps, it also is not the end all, fix all answer to the growing waste problem we have in the world today.
As many studies show, for example, plastic waste not only makes up a large percentage of annual waste output over the world, it also takes up large amounts of space in landfills, taking extended amounts of time to degrade, or reduce themselves back to a material that nature can do something with. This can be hundreds to millions of years. While these plastic wastes are sitting in a landfill, they could be on their way to being turned into something, anything, which plastic can be made into. It’s only a matter of applying science to material.
it's short, but I'm at a loss for anything to add, maybe if I'd started work on it sooner *shrug*
Rinse, Re-use, Recycle!
Recycling is a very worthwhile cause. However it is met with both favorable and non-favorable opinions. At one end are the people that see little if any point in recycling, that it has no true effect on the amount of waste that goes into the land fill. To the other extreme, are the people that feel that recycling is not only 100 % effective, but that it is the only way to save the planet from mass destruction...perhaps I exaggerated a bit, but not by much, I'm sure.
I find myself at the mid-point between these two extremes, yes; I feel that recycling is a good thing, both for our environment, and for our continued future. However, I also realize, that while recycling helps, it also is not the end all, fix all answer to the growing waste problem we have in the world today.
As many studies show, for example, plastic waste not only makes up a large percentage of annual waste output over the world, it also takes up large amounts of space in landfills, taking extended amounts of time to degrade, or reduce themselves back to a material that nature can do something with. This can be hundreds to millions of years. While these plastic wastes are sitting in a landfill, they could be on their way to being turned into something, anything, which plastic can be made into. It’s only a matter of applying science to material.
