What Waste?

 

    The United States alone produces about 268 million tonnes of trash yearly; if everyone were to live like Americans do, we’d need 5¹/₂ Earth’s worth of resources. That’s absolutely nuts to butts! I like to sort trash into 3 categories: glass, aluminum & plastic. The Republic Services takes care of our trash, but it doesn't just vanish into thin air; they just bury then landscape over it, like if we were cats or something. Recycling is a really good way to reduce our use of oil based products. We all produce trash and recycling is literally turning one’s trash into another's treasure. Plastic is sticky and is made of oil, and there's only 3 destinations it has, it either gets recycled, goes to a landfill, or becomes pollution. Discarded metals like aluminum are legit poor man’s gold; going for around 50c per pound. Unfortunately glass doesn't have a set unit price per pound but a cool thing about glass is that it’s made of silica which is an analog of silicon and silicon is in everything from the motherboard on your phone to the waves on our beaches. And the best part is; it starts in our homes, schools, and businesses. Recycling prevents usable material from ending up in a landfill underground. We all have the choice to recycle, and I will be taking a stance against litter. A good rule of thumb is to refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, & rot.