GARBAGE! GARBAGE! Humans are producing more refuse than ever before, creating unprecedented problems for the environment. People in developed, developing and under developed lands throw away mountains of Trash. Sadly, like it or not, most of us today are part of a throwaway society. People have always had things to throw away. But canned and packaged foods and goods are more widely available now than they were years ago, so disposable packaging is everywhere. The quantity of newspapers, magazines, advertising leaflets, and other printed material has soared as well.Our highly industrialized and scientific world has also created new kinds of garbage, Autos. How about nuclear and chemical waste, a million barrels of deadly substances were said to be sitting in temporary storage with an ever-present danger of loss, theft and environmental damage from mishandling, those are hazardous waste.
Human population has skyrocketed during the past century that means more people, more garbage!
Granted, few of those living in developed lands want to do away with all those “goods and services.” For instance, just think of how convenient it is to go to the store and pick up groceries that are already packaged and then bring them home in paper or plastic bags supplied at the store. If people were suddenly deprived of such modern packaging, they might soon realize how deeply they have come to depend on it. And to the extent that it is more hygienic, such packaging contributes, at least indirectly, to better health.
Despite such advantages, though, is there any need for concern that today’s throwaway society might have gone too far? Evidently there is, for various solutions that have been designed to address the garbage glut have barely made a dent in the avalanche of human refuse. What is worse, the attitudes that underlie today’s throwaway society have even more troubling implications. WHAT should you do with an unwanted item? “Just throw it away” seems a simple, obvious answer. However, waste disposal is not always so simple. Throw it where? Nowadays the marketplace has plenty to sell, and the advertising world wants us to believe that we need it all. Indeed, we are tempted into buying the latest on the market, lest we miss out on something new. And, of course, in advertising terminology “new” means “better and superior,” whereas “old” means “inferior and outdated. Thus, we are often urged to buy something new rather than repair something old. It is argued that replacing old things is more practical and economical than repairing them. At times, that is true. Often, however, throwing away the old and replacing it with the new is expensive and unnecessary.Many products today are designed to be thrown away.
They may be difficult to repair—a point to keep in mind when making purchases. Life span of products continue to get shorter. What was ‘in’ yesterday is ‘out’ today and frequently lands in the rubbish. Thus, valuable raw materials daily end up as worthless garbage.
It is said that that a glass bottle thrown into the sea will take 1,000 years to decompose. In contrast, paper tissues will decompose in only three months. A cigarette butt pollutes the sea for up to 5 years; plastic bags, 10 to 20 years; nylon articles, 30 to 40 years; cans, 500 years; and polystyrene, 1,000 years.Hmmmm that a lot of years.What, then, are some solutions to the garbage glut?
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