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 these big corporations pollute so much and they need to stop telling the public that this is all our fault.
Yes, we recycle some. We mostly burn the trash we can in our burn barrell though. I think my family could do a little bit of a better job to recycle and not drive so much in a day. I think if became a huge push to recycle and a lot more people started doing it it would make an imapct. I think the school needs to get recycling bins so students have the option to recycle.
I agree it would be a great idea for the school to have more recycling bins especially in the lunch room.
My house does try to recycle, but not quite as many as I think we should or are capable of. If we all recycled as much as we could, I'm sure it would make a difference. However, having everybody to participate is a challenge. I just do not believe it is possible to enlist everyone's support. It'll all run its course in the universe, and the harsh reality is that nobody can do anything about it.
I agree it would be very hard to get everyone to help and to keep up by doing their part.
My household recycles nearly everything we throw out. We always make conscious efforts to understand the implications of our actions. Climate change is such a huge issue and being more aware of your personal actions can make a big difference. Wasting less food, recycling more, using re-usable products are all ways to reduce one's own carbon foot print. I don't think that we are too far gone to make a change for our planet, but we need to act now.
I agree climate change is a big problem and because it is effecting us I feel that more people are becoming aware and might start to help make a change.
My household recycled almost everything, if we can recycle it we usually do. We also have a compost so all our fruits and vegetables are recycled, and give most of the leftover food to our dogs. I drive to most places, if I reduced my driving I could greatly reduce my carbon footprint. I also think if I started taking shorter showers my carbon footprint would go down.I do think if everyone started to recycle it would help our world greatly.
I feel that many people struggle with running to much water in their house and there are many things we can all do to help.
I do believe that pollution and climate change is a huge issue that needs addressing sooner rather than later. We are destroying the planet one unrecycled can at a time and if more people recycled we could all prolong the death of the Earth. Recycling is the easiest way to help the cause, but the majority of people are too lazy to do it. My family recycles as much as we can and we know we are helping the atmosphere out and helping to reduce pollution levels as much as we can.
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