Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Recycling + You = No trash

Reading about these two giant masses of floating garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is somewhat shocking to me. While reading about it all that was going threw my mind was "Well why isn't anyone doing something about it." If we as humans are producing these grotesque masses of harmful waste, we should solve this issue, by either limiting our disposal of plastic or learning how to recycling our plastic materials. Earth, itself is a very delicate ecosystem. By having all of these unnatural factors affecting it, in the end our future generations are going to be seeing and having to deal with the mess we created. I think that if 200 billion pounds of plastic is being produced every year, then as a community we should work together to reduce the amount of Recyclable plastic being thrown away every year. I do think that we have become more aware in these past few years of the benefits of recycling and keeping our ecosystem healthy, and I think that the more people that are aware of these problems. The more help we can get to solve the recycling and ecosystem problems of today.

1 comment:

Morgan A said...

Some very thoughtful comments...I think more people should be aware of the volume of plastic in our environment today. We should all take a look around and acknowledge the sheer magnitude of our dependance on a material that is going to be around and contaminating our environment hundreds, even thousands of years from now.