Hey! Rcycle

          Recycling plays a significant role in protecting our environment. It is a way of preventing environmental pollution. Our daily waste of products like plastics, food packaging and electric components could be recycled for reuse. This prevents the harm that could possibly occur in the environment. Recycling reduce the harm passed to the future generations.


          Recycling is a source of revenue for the government. This is obvious given that taxes are added in companies that deal with recycling. It is also a source of income for many citizens who are employed in such enterprises. Finally recycling helps in preservation of fresh raw materials by preventing use of clean material every time a product is needed. By reusing, we, therefore, protect the diminishing of raw materials and also protect our natural inhabitant. In the end, the process acts as a means of preserving energy because used recycled materials use less energy during their manufacture as compared to clean raw materials.

Eco-Effectiveness

A paper is durable, functional, and attractive, but is does not last forever. It is perfectly biodegradable. With this in mind, people still have to worry about its disposal as they do worry about non-biodegradable materials.  Regardless of the fact the paper is a product of trees, it is imperative to note that the composition of the paper changes when one uses pens and pencils on it. To illustrate this, pens and pencils are a combination of heavy metals and carbon black. In this way, a paper that has writings on it is equally harmful as non-biodegradable materials. Further, paper is not plain wood, but an mixture. Having this, the paper should be disposed carefully because it cannot be burnt like wood because it releases dioxins; extremely dangerous substances.

They aimed at developing chlorine-free papers that would not pose danger to humans and ecosystems. The substances became a source of dilemma because they contained elements that could not be prevented from contaminating water. For acceptable durability, the covers of many books are coated; as a result, they cannot be recycled. However, the covers of the books can be recycled. Unfortunately, recycling them more often threatens their strength and inhibits their service. All in all, the option is less appealing environmentally and practically.  

Besides, a ground littered with cherry blossom appears as a sight that one could tolerate. Somehow one might wonder if the tree is wasteful and inefficient. However, when cherries fall to the ground, they breakdown and decompose turning into nutrients for microorganism, plants, animals, insects, and even soil. This tree must be generous for feeding earth. It produces more than it requires for personal sustenance. Humans should reduce the number of structures that they construct and plant more natural vegetation like the cherry tree.

Ask a junior school kid about the experience growth. He or she will tell you that it is a good experience because it involves growing healthier, stronger, and bigger. However, the description is not complete because it should also include growing into responsible human beings. Growth also takes place in man-made entities such as industries. As the human grow bigger, stronger, healthier, and responsible, the industries also grow bigger; consequently, they release more toxins into the air, rivers, and land. Moreover, more land has to be cleared to create room for the expansion of factories. Urban and industrial growth is a potential source of cancer and also behaves as a cancer. Factories behave as cancer because they have uncontrolled growth that take place for their own sake and not for the lives that inhabitant it. In the wake of the expansion of factories, humans have turned into irresponsible organisms.

In contrast to humans, ants are far less intelligent, but take care of their environment by constructing cemeteries, growing and harvesting food, and handling their own material wastes and those of other species.Human should imitate ants in regard to relating with the environment.  

Food Today

Ideally we eat food. Not too little, not too much, just enough. Our society today has been faced with what we should eat to maintain our health. There are various medical recommendations out there today regarding what to eat and what not to eat, most of them leaning on the side of the fresh food intake rather than the consumption of processed foods. What started out as a one-man idea is now an organization that is aimed at supporting businesses, which are committed to making certain changes within their societies.

Food has been used as a strategy to source for funds that will be used to give back to the society in any useful way. Cafes such as Old School hire disabled individuals to sell meal vouchers, whose proceeds go towards college scholarships. There is so much importance attached to food that a little mention of throwing it away can start great debates among the various people today. Past food, shortages have taught man to be more careful on how he makes use of the available food, when there is plenty around or when there is not. For instance the 500 diplomats, environment ministers, and other officials of the United Nations, who were treated to a formal dinner in Kenya, and were served food that was considered as surplus and was supposed to have been thrown away. Rejected food was fed high-ranking officials; something, which no one thought, could ever happen.

Various forums have been set up to campaign against the wastage of food. The Sustainable Foods Summit is currently doing an excellent job combating wastage in the food system. In countries such as the United States, it has been verify that at least 40% of the available food goes uneaten. This show how the availability of food is taken for granted in some areas, particularly those sectors are less likely to experience food shortages. This is happening despite the fact that a good portion of the American citizens lacks a secure food supply. Disposed food sent to landfills for an estimated 25% of the world's methane emissions, which are contributing to the current climate change. Food service providers have been identified as the chief weapon in combating food waste, together with various awareness-raising and educational cafeterias. ‘Low Carbon Diet Day' is celebrated each year, and the people are once again reminded of how their food choices have a significant bearing on climate change. Despite these efforts, food wastage is still inevitable, and the man is now working hard to keep it away from the landfill through feeding scraps to livestock, transforming the food waste into energy, and composting.

Other strategies such as the ‘Hidden Harvest Model' have worked to save produce from wastage while at the same time feeding the hungry. The model provides a solution to the problem of food wastage by giving millions of fruits and vegetables a second chance to many families. The program aims to gather and distribute fresh produce in an attempt to fight hunger. Much more emphasis needs to be given to the subject of food and food wastage. Despite the increasing importance of maintaining an adequate food supply across the globe, more programs and forums need to come up to join in the fight against food wastage.