What does your daily routine look like? Do you walk to your workplace or schoolplace? Do you drive short distances when you could have walked? It is very likely that 80% of your daily routine creates pollution to the world you live in. Many people are self-centered, and tend to only care about their own personal problems and nothing that doesn't affect them directly. Pollution is one of those things that no one thinks about but affects everyone in the long run. Pollution is a problem that humans have caused, and we are almost to the point of no return.
We contribute to the Earth’s pollution every day and don’t even think about it. Do you remember the three R's? Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. For as much as we puch recycling only 32% of Americans recycle. The article pollution and health states that “recycling is one of the easiest and simplest ways to save energy and reduce air and water pollution.” Over 94% of the U.S population has recycling available to them. It's crazy to think that 80% of our daily items are recyclable but only 9% of them actually end up in the recycling bin. Although, we can’t put all of the blame on ourselves because energy plants, factories, and airplanes are huge contributors to pollution.
Pollution is a huge problem not only in just the United States, but it affects the whole world. Although cars, chemicals, and power plants make our life easier, they hurt the environment drastically and damage our health and the planets’. By using everyday products like hairspray, driving our cars, and purchasing products that are made in factories we are making things more convenient for us now, but in the long run we end up hurting ourselves and others. You wouldn't think that spraying hairspray for 30 seconds in your hair would hurt our Earth but it actually does. When you use any kind of spray can it releases gasses that hurt our atmosphere. Pollution affects the Earth majorly but it also hurts the plants, animals, and humans living on it. Air pollution is a huge problem, especially in China where there are almost 1.5 billion people. In the article How Air Pollution is Destroying our Earth it says that areas where there is high air pollution have reported many cases of lung cancer, heart diseases, and even death caused by strokes all relating to their poor air quality. Pollution doesn't only affect humans but our plants and animals, our sources of food. If we don't do something now our world will never be the same.
The power to change the world rests in our hands. The blog Rubiconsaid ,“the rate of people that recycle is around 34% if we were to get it up to 75% the effect would be like removing 50 million passenger cars from U.S roads.” That would have a great impact in our world. Yet that is not the only thing we can do to save the environment. There are thousands of daily things in your life that you can change. For example: we could reduce how many trips we take in our car, and reduce the use of electricity. These are simple to change in our daily life that could help the environment. Even though we can’t control the big factories, we can change those small things in your life to decrease your carbon footprint. It’s hard to understand that if everyone does their part we could change the world. A lot of people don’t do anything because they think that they are the only ones doing it, and if no one does it, then why should they do it? I can understand why some people will think this because it's true, but if we all ignore what everyone else does and focus on ourselves we will slowly start to notice the change. The environment needs us, it's slowly dying and warning us little by little.
I personally have not thought about my carbon footprint and I can say that I do a lot of things that pollute the world. But after researching I realized how bad it actually is and it's only getting worse. I understand the people who don't feel like they need to do anything because it is hard to think that your tiny little bit could help.
Does your household recycle?
How do you think you could help reduce your carbon footprint?
Do you think that if we all started to recycle the world's problem would get better or do you think it would be so small it wouldn't help?
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Good topic choice and very well written summary! Good job commenting overall but the vast majority of your comments were done on May 13.
Yes, My household recycles mostly plastics and some glass. I believe my family could recycle paper and maybe purchase an electric car such as a Tesla instead of my car, this would help reduce our carbon footprint. I think that if everyone recycled that we would have a large effect on the earth's carbon footprint and garbage crisis, which would be a massive positive for earth.
My family recycles cans and try to recycle glass. I think that my family could reduce our carbon footprint if we had electric cars or solar cars because we drive almost around 4 hours a day and we have 3 cars and my dad is a truck driver so he is driving a simi for 24 hours stright almost. I think that if we all could do a small part by recycling we could make a really big difference in the world.
I agree if we all did something small and just did our part it would help a little.
My family does recycle all of the things that we can. I feel like I can reduce my carbon footprint by stopping at multiple places in one trip. Instead of taking multiple trips polluting the air even more everytime you start your car. I feel that recycling would help a little bit with the carbon footprint. However people would still be polluting the air everyday when they turn on their cars and drive to work.
I agree it would help a little but not greatly.
Yes, in my household we recycle. Recycling I think is a good thing, it lets us reuse things and keeps our world a bit cleaner. With the cardon footprint, more people could carpool places if there going to the same place. I think if we all recycled, things would get better slowly.
I agree things could slowly get better if everyone would just do their part.
My household recycles. I like recycling because it makes me feel a little bit less bad about how much we pollute. However, the recycling area in Harlan is gone so we go to Atlantic to recycle. I think one easy way to reduce our carbon footprints would be to simply turn off lights and unplug outlets you aren't using. A lot of times we have things plugged in that we don't necessarily need. Another way to reduce pollution would be to turn off the sink water when you're not using it. Sometimes I leave the sink running when I could turn it off for a few seconds. I think most people are just lazy and don't care about pollution. I don't think people understand that with billions of people, tiny changes can impact the Earth so greatly.
I agree turing off lights and doing little things are simple easy things that everyone should start doing.
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