The Importance Of Saving The Earth, One Bottle At A Time

Saving the Earth, One Bottle at a Time

Do you want to live on an Earth even more polluted and trashed than it is now? The planet is covered in waste and landfills. This, in part, is due to a lack of recycling by many of the households that are in a place to do so. Out of the total 29 million bottles of water that Americans buy every year, a mere 13 percent of those bottles are recycled. By recycling plastics like water bottles, cardboard, and paper, we can reduce the waste and pollution that currently plagues this ailing planet. Recycling, by its simplest definition, is turning trash or garbage into usable materials. You should start recycling and add to the group of people trying to help the planet. By doing this, you are contributing to a

We have ignorantly began destroying it for what we believe is our own gain. We are just being lazy and in the process trashing our own surroundings. Do you really want your lineage suffering on a smoggy, gloomy rock? This goes for all of the beautiful wildlife in nature. In reality, what looks like a benefit in the moment, is actually a huge threat to not only certain environments or ecosystems, but the whole planet. We have been ruining the planet by leaving our garbage everywhere. This goes from throwing a bottle out our car window to dumping tons of waste into lakes and rivers. While you may say “Well I am not the one dumping waste into rivers.”, by not recycling you are contributing to the planet’s problem. By beginning a habit of recycling, you are contributing to the betterment of society and the healing of the planet. We dump about 14 billion pounds of mainly plastic garbage into the ocean each year. This results in the death of sea life that are unfortunate enough to try to eat or get caught up in this garbage. Outside of the ocean, pollution kills about 100 million mammals each year along with 1 million birds. We are like a parasite to this planet, slowly but surely killing it. If we do not start to try and clean up the planet some more, we could end up on the same path as Earth in