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 think you are right it would only help a little because very little plastic can really be recycled.
My household doesn't recycle, but if I was in charge of the household I think we would. Considering the World's top companies contribute to 77% of the world's carbon emissions, my personal actions aren't making a big difference in the long run in terms of carbon. I do try to reduce my waste by buying reusable products, though. I think that if we dismantled capitalism carbon emissions would get a lot better.
I agree our help by recycling would not help a huge amount. Companies need to take some of the blame for this and stop trying to tell the public that it is our fault.
Our household does recycle, but who knows how much of that recycling is actually recycled. I could reduce my carbon footprint by driving less and conserving water. However, most of the pollution problem is caused by large corporations who aren't taking any responsibility. They want us to believe this is an individual consumer problem that will be solved if we all start recycling, but it's not going to make much difference. In order to really address the pollution issue, these large corporations have to change.
I 100% agree. The general public does contribute to pollution but huge corporations are the ones who really do most of the polluting.
In my house, we try to recycle as much as we can, and we also use compostable products. The world could definitely do better at creating less pollution. We could stop the production of some plastics like plastic bags, or single use plastic. However, in order to solve this problem the entire world would have to help participate in helping.
I agree it would take the whole world to make a difference and we should also find other products to used besides single use plastics.
In my household we have a recycling bin that we use all the time. I think that if you are close enough to someplace people should start walking instead of driving. I think that if we recycle more than we do then it can definitley help the pollution problem that we have.
I agree many people drive short distances when they could have walked and if more people walked or used other sources of transportation it would help.
Yes my household does recycle. We try our best to sort everything the best we can too. By reducing our waste, trash, and use of things. By saving and being more conscience about our choices, we might be better off with the smaller carbon footpringt. I think if we all recycled things would be a lot better, however not everything is good as recycling so it won't be perfect.
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