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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I agree that recycling is only a small act that can help change our worlds polution problem. I think that if some of these "recyclables " are not really recyclable then they should say that on the container.
I know that I could do a lot to lower my carbon footprint but if others don't then nothing will get better because one person dosen't affect the worlds population by a lot it's everybody who pollutes the world that does. I think it would help and make some stuff a little better but it's not going to save the world and stop global warming.
I 100% agree. Nothing will change if only 1 person starts but if everyone did their part I feel it might help some but most definitely not make it go away.
I agree that only one person can't make a difference but if everybody thought like that and expected others to make the right choice, nothing would ever change. I personally think that everybody should try and do their own part even if it feels like it's not worth it or that it's useless.
I agree if everyone would just do their part it would help some.
We do recycle at my house. I think the more people recycle the less pollution we would have. Recycling would make somewhat of a cure for pollution but then again when you have people that drive and just throw trash out the windows is so much worse, it happens all the time. People will drive by my house and I can go outside and there's so many wrappers and trash laying in the ditches and its ridiculous.
I agree with you recycling would help a little but would not make it go away. I also think it is really sad that people just dont care and throw their trash anywhere they want to.
I do not recycle at home. We could start to recycle pop cans, I do think that if we started recycling we could make somewhat of a distance. If everyone started recycling it won't stop the pollution completely but people throwing stuff out their car windows while driving is worse. They are throwing it right into the open and it will get caught on something or go in the ocean and kill animals.
I agree that people need to stop littering anywhere and everywhere it is a big contributor to polution and it would help a little.
My household only recycles cans. You could travel less not take as many plane trips because planes emit ozone and the jet fuel that is used due to extensive handling could contaiminate bodies of water. I think that recycling would help reduce some of our world's problem but it wouldn't remove it.
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