The Importance Of Waste Essay

Care for a drink? Try the reusable water bottles and fill up at the nearby fountain. Feel free to use wood-fiber products, nontoxic sprays, or laptops for textbooks. In my family, I have always been accustomed to using environmentally friendly products and.properly recycling glass, paper, cardboard and anything that had a reusable value to it. However, when I went to recycle an empty bottle of water on the first day of high school, I had to walk all the way to the one recycling bin located in the corner of the cafe. Due to my curiousity, I asked the faculty members in charge that day where the nearest recycling bin was to the once in the cafe. They claimed that there was another towards to end of the hall which most students were unaware of.

This essentially saves time and makes the lives of the waste industry a lot simpler. The amount of waste that they collect increases yearly due to population overgrowth. Within these recycling centers, not only are there people that are needed to run the machines, there are people that are needed to sort the trash that goes into the correct machines. Kasandro Eperiam, a trash sorter at the Waste Management’s Cascade Recycling Center claims, “We have to go in there and clean them out, at the risk of getting us injured, and at the same time it reduces the performance of the machines,” he said. “Day in, day out, you’ll see dirty diapers coming down, nonstop.” (Sheets). In addition to removing non-recyclable items from the lines, the sorters have to check for items that may have been missed by machines and gotten onto the wrong conveyor belt. This is what creates safety issues and a waste of time. Since The Pennsylvania State University is such a large campus, they make an extreme impact on the conditions of the neighbor small town, State College. It is vitally important for the university to have an efficient disposal system that does not negatively impact the area and create an issue for the local waste management sectors. Although Souderton Area high school, alike the rest of high schools across the nation, is extremely small in comparison, their failure to have any policy on recycling will eventually accumulate. It will accumulate because as they keep harming the environment, it is difficult to make it better immediately. The high school’s must understand it is a lengthy yet valuable