Making Trash Useful

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It is an accepted thought that trash is useless garbage. "Trash," as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is things that are no longer useful or wanted and that have been thrown away. This paper will acknowledge the facts that disprove this definition. Trash can be viewed different ways by so many people and this will lay out some of those very clearly. The reason for this paper is to explain ways to make use for garbage that no one wants, and as a result, better the environment, lifestyles, and our overall value of being on planet Earth. Trash is a huge problem in the world today. Each person produces 4.3 pounds of trash every day, and 85% of that trash is sent to the landfills. This causes so many problems for our people, country, animals, and environment in the short term, but also in the future. Every day people throw away plastic bottles, wrapping, boxes, gum, food, cans, etc. All of these things do not just disappear once they go down the garbage shaft of your apartment building. Those things all have to end up somewhere. It is a law of science that matter cannot be created or destroyed. So, any matter that exists, will exist forever. Should humans really be allowing this "waste" to exist among our landfills for ages and ages forever? Or should they do something about it? Figure out a way to reuse and recycle and give back to earth as it has given so much to them. Composting has almost seemed like a new trend over the past decade or so, but it really is one of the biggest solutions to the trash problem that humans have discovered. As God said about our bodies coming from the dust and to dust they shall return, food and other materials that have been produced by land should be returned to land so that the cycle may con... ... middle of paper ... ...en think of landfills as being not that bad, we see pictures of a bulldozer pushing trash, but what is really the issue? This photograph above really gives a literal clear picture of just how massive one landfill is. And just think about how many millions of landfills there are around the entire world. Hopefully this makes people more aware of the severity of the issue at hand. Changing the world is not an easy feat and we cannot do it alone. If only I composted and recycled, but no one else did, it would not even make a dent in the issue that our world faces. But if each person realized that they matter and were inspired to do it, we could all form an army against this issue and fight back. We would be able to make a difference. Works Cited http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/trees/students/students/katiel/ http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/tools/localgov/benefits/

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