Trash

Today we had to dig through the trash and we had to see if our way of life is sustainable and as I was looking through the trash I was shocked at how many plastic bottles in the trash rather than in a recycling bin. While I was looking at how many plastic bottles were in the trash I also noticed that there were so many different types of recyclables such as milk, and POG cartons. I was shocked at how we as a hole have done so bad and threw away so many recyclables along with our trash. I am even more shocked because around most of the trash cans there are rescaling bins to throw away your plastic bottles.

I also think that all the plastic bottles that were found could be rescaled and there was around 30 plastic bottles that were in that area. There were 30 bottles and 30 bottles means about a dollar and 50 cents.

There were also some plastic forks and paper goods that I found in the big pile of trash and those items are all recyclable. I am also glad to say that all of the plastic bottles and aluminum cans were all recycled.

What I learned from this project is that we are not living sustainable and/or responsible because we need to burn all of our trash and after we burn it all they become ashes even though that is minimum then they still occupy space and take up room.

One way to live a better and more responsible life is to recycle all of your aluminum bottles and plastic cans also another way is to conserve your trash like use hole napkins and use some food as compost for your plants. So there are many ways we can live more responsible however we don't do them.

 

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