Every year, human has to face and find a solution for treating the mountain of garbage, 2.3 trillion pounds from around the world. But in that number, only 1% of them is recycled (Graph 1) while 59% is in the landfills (Thompson 2012). From the graph, it is easy for us to recognize how the trash over the world has been treated. In the higher income countries, fortunately, we still have 1% of trash was recycled. The that is still an extrememly small amount. And in both, we spend too much land for building landfill based on 59% of world's garbage was located at landfill. But the land area of the Earth is limited, so if the amount of waste keeps increasing while we do not have landfills anymore, how can we solve this matter? Graph 1. How the garbage is treated in the lower income countries (left) and the higher income countries (right). (Source: The Atlantic. 2012) The solution for this matter is RECYCLING. Recycling is the process of making a new reusable thing from the potentially useful trash to avoid using new or raw materials to make and use again some reusable things as much as we can. For example, we can use a water bottle from a grocery shop for several times instead buying a new bottle before putting in a trash bin. This is just a small act but very useful for decreasing the amount of world's trash. If everyone does this, people will not have to pay a lot of money in waste treating technology every year. So what can be recycled? Nearly EVERYTHING is recyclable, from the smallest thing, such as, a water bottle, to the largest one like a fridge. It depends on the way it is recycled. In general, a recyclable object is ussually marked by one logo (Picture 1). So when seeing that logo, you know your thing can be recycled. But not every family has the advanced technology for recycling. So in this case, the only act we have to do is separate our trash. Then, the government and the garbage treating center will help you do the left steps. After they collect enough each kind of trash, for instance, glass, plastic or biowaste, they use their advanced technology to recycle one by one type. APicture 1. Recyclable logo. (Wikipedia. 2016) And why is recycling the key to the world's development? As mentioned, the land area on our planet is limited. So we cannot use too much land and money for building landfills as we need that land and that money for other human developments like technology, medication and economy. Through all what we discovered, it is surely ossible to conclude why recycling is important for humand. Recycling is the key to the world's development has been proven. We cannot live in garbage mountains to work or study. Meanwhile we do not join hand to reduce the amount of trash and let it increases day by day. So lastly, if we do not start not, maybe not in near future but nearly sure in future, human will live, work and play in our landfills. Reference. 1. Derek Thompson. 07 June 2012. 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage: Where does the world’s trash go? The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/26-trillion-pounds-of-garbage-where-does-the-worlds-trash-go/258234/. Access: 13.11.2016
2. Recycling. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling. Access: 13.11.2016 |
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