Earth Day Paper
Jonah Melinn
Mrs. Tombre
April 10th 2012
Earth Day
There
are many things that could be done to help preserve our environment
with a little spending and the expense of some unnecessary wasting. The
impact could be enormous and would create a healthier, safer environment
for everyone to live in. What I would recommend as a priority is to
halt the overpackaging that is used in the simplest devices, in the mail
or the store. According to the Environmental Protection Agency,
packaging materials makes up about one-third of all American garbage.
The amount of plastic and cardboard that is used is unbelievable and
unneeded in today’s society. One thing that is urged among the masses is
to buy in bulk, this will use less cardboard per used space. Another
thing that is asked is to leave the overpackaging at the store counter,
this will force the companies to take action and reduce the amount of
cardboard and plastic that is used in the transportation of the bought
goods. In the end the it is the taxpayers who have to pay for the
overuse of wrapping. Not only economically but also financially, due to
the payment of the recycling and also the garbage trucks that must drop
the trash off at the landfill. All throughout Europe and Asia laws have
been passed that force the companies to pay for the packaging to be
sorted and recycled, this obviously has made them rethink the amount of
packaging that is used in all of their products in shipping. That would
do much to prevent the waste of plastic and other packaging materials.
It would allow us to use that material more efficiently and help us find
other ways to also work on our “footprint”, so to speak.
This one was a bit more tricky, I don't really know much about the environment so I took a while to find the correct information needed to write this paper. It wasn't that difficult but the worst part of it was the time consuming research that was needed, although after It was done I was impressed with what I had come up with. I learned much from writing this paper about the carbon released and it was a pretty good paper, If I do say so myself.
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