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 it would not fix the problem but it would help.
At my house we recycle. I believe that a lot of people do recycle they just don't make a huge deal about it. I think that recycling has an effect on pollution because then that's fewer gasses put into the air. But there are still people who litter and just throw recyclables in the trash.
I agree I feel that there should be a bigger consequence for those who do liter.
We recycle at my house. And I do believe the more people recycle, the less pollution we would have. I think recycling would have an effect and help with pollution. But people also throw trash out the window all the time. Recycling would help but people will still liter.
I agree litering is a huge problem and it is sad to see people just throw their trash out the window.
I typically don't recycle. My footprint already is actually much lower then the average person but I could eat less meat and recycle more. I think that less trash would go into water sources but I don't think enough people do this to matter that much.
I agree right now there are not nearly enough people helping to make a change.
My family really only recylces cans, but we need to do better. And yes, if a lot more of the population began recylcing and being conscious about their carbon footprint, we'd be in a much better situation. Many lifestyles are too busy to even think of recylcing, which is the sad reality. However, our world's state is a sad reality as well, and only getting worse. I think one major thing would be to make eco-friendly products more available. I see so many online, but never in use in the real world. It's sickening. I think that'd be a fantastic investment for the government: Give eco-friendly products fianacial support when they're begining their business. Not only would it be encouraged, but then there'd be more out in the world for people to buy, which in the long run is totally worth it.
I agree this whole situation is only getting worse and if we don't act now who knows what could happen to the world.
Yes, my household does recycle. I think that there are many ways to make a differerence on the pronlem of pollution. There's small things like trying to walk places or ride a bike instead of driving there if it's not absolutely necessary. You can also try to turn off the lights when don't need them for example, but there are also big changes like becoming vegetarians which can have a positive impact but it's a lot more difficult.
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