Recycling Matters... Go Green!
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I'm sure you all know what this symbol means!
It is so important to mother earth and she thanks you!
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Hey guys, do you ever wonder what
happens to your recycling that, well, doesn't get recycled? I bet most
of you don't; this goes for a lot of your peers and even adults as
well. A lot of people all over the world are simply too lazy to recycle.
In fact, currently less than 35% of households and less than 10% of businesses
in the U.S. recycle (Elmer, 2015). This aggravates a lot of us adults and I'm
sure some of you too! It is so easy to recycle your garbage! Plastics, paper,
metal, they're all things that can be simply thrown into your recycling bin! It
seems crazy that not everyone does this, I know.
Driving a
car, using electricity in excessive amounts to heat and light your home, and
especially throwing away plastic and garbage contributes quite a bit to
greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gases are the pollutants caused by us
humans that go up into the atmosphere and harm the ozone (Enzler, 2004). Why is
this a bad thing? We need the ozone layer so the earth can survive! Without the
ozone, there would be no earth, and I apologize for frightening you, but
this is a scary topic for sure.
Truth of Landfills
Speaking of trash... look at this
picture. Yes that's what you've all heard about before I'm sure, a
landfill. A place where all the regular trash goes to potentially be broken
down and biodegrade as one with the earth. Unfortunately for us, this
usually is not the case. Approximately five pounds a day is wasted by an
American household, that's about the weight of a couple of your textbooks! On
the bright side, two thirds of this is said to be compost, so this waste can
easily be cut down by a couple ways.
1. RECYCLING!!! ( of course)
2. Composting What's composting?
Composting is when your family eats dinner, you take the food that can break
down into your garden's soil, say a piece of corn on the cob, and throw it in a
bin with a hole on the bottom. A bin like a cylinder, think like a trashcan
with an open bottom. Eventually all the food will break down into the soil, not
only this, but also the degraded food will provide an abundance of nutrients to
your garden's soil and plants. When this happens, you can take off the
cylinder and spread all the good waste out on top of the
soil. Composting is an easy, simple, and fun way to reduce your waste!
You've Learned Quite a Bit, Now Do Your Part!
Obviously everyone can help improve the earth, but if you
and your friends start a trend in the younger generations, it will do wonders
and have a great effect when your older. It's always good to get into a good
habit when you're young, so start recycling and reducing your energy uses
today! Your planet WILL thank you later.
Elmer, B. (2015, January 23). Top Ten Reasons Climate Change
is a Hoax. http://www.globalclimatescam.com/opinion/top-ten-reasons-climate-change-is-a-hoax/
Enzler, S.M. (2004). Global Warming, a very short
introduction. http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effect/global-warming-history.htm
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