Waste
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Firstly, let’s take it on a small scale. My family, for example, has always tried to recycle, however much we could. But before, it was hard to do it, as you needed to go to certain places to give the paper, and totally different places for plastic or so, and maybe this wasn’t a viable option for everyone. Now we all have the opportunity to recycle. But why recycle after all? Two thousand years ago, we adopted from the Romans sewerage systems. We evolved. Today, any civilized city recycles, and the purpose of this is saving our planet. This is how we evolve now. Maybe we don’t see this. We live our everyday lives and we are not aware that somewhere in the world, plants and animals and therefore ecosystems are dying because of our lack of involvement. We do not see this in our everyday lives, but it is a true fact, and it may lead to bigger disasters that affect us.
So on a bigger scale, recycling will definitely prevent for example seagulls dying because they ate a plastic bottle or poisoning or soil or so many more things. There won’t be piles and piles of garbage outside our cities. There won’t be so many trees cut, or so many natural resources used, because now we can reuse them and we can recycle. It is our right and our obligation as European citizens, as Romanian citizens, and most of all as humans to protect our planet, and we can do that through recycling.
So even if you are a student, a teacher, a doctor, just a regular employee or whoever you are, next time you throw away something in your garbage, be attentive in which bin you throw it, take a moment to choose the right place for that bottle or that banana peel, because even if you don’t realize it, our world needs our help and this is how we help it. We might think that “I am only one person who does this”, but if we recycle individually, then together we form a whole population who recyles. So if we can, let us all be the change this world needs!
(Antonia Devian)
Read more here:
https://erasmusgoga.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/waste-management-from-theory-to-practice/