Link:
http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/why-recycling-plastic-bottles-doesnt-help-the-problem-video.html?campaign=th_rss
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YLtpBOLzZA&feature=player_embedded
(very worth while. Watch the video and see how many steps are involved in
recycling)
Picture
I chose this picture because it is an elephant made out of plastic bottles. I
thought that it is incredible that this can be done, while at the same time I
thought "How many bottles are there?" and "What a waste."
Summary:
There are so many steps involved in the recycling process. This company
(ecostar) takes plastic bottles and grounds them into sand like pieces. There
are about five steps to get it to this state, but it seems very time consuming and
involved. Even though we do recycle, not as many people recycle as they should.
Because of this problem it is estimated that there is about six times more
plastic than plankton in our oceans. If you know anything about plankton they
are very small organisms and there are a lot of them in the ocean.
Opinion
The fact that there is more plastic than, lets say, 30 to 40 million plankton
in our oceans is just a disturbing realization that our planet may soon become
a giant landfill. These companies, such as Coke, are obsessed with making
money. They could very easily stop production of plastic bottles and sell
reusable ones, but they want to make money so they won't. I think that if we
all stopped to look at what Earth has become in only the past few years, we
will see how much damage all of this has become.
Questions:
How could we help the recycling steps lessen?
What do you think the world will be like in a mere 10 years if this keeps
happening?
Do you think recycling is good or should we stop using plastic all together?
Why?
The picture was an elephant make completely out of plastic bottles. Go on google and type in "plastic bottles" and it will be on the third line of pictures in you want to see it. Sorry. For some reason it wouldn't let me add it.
ReplyDeleteAnd for some reason here's my summary. I'm really sorry this got soooo messed up!!!
ReplyDeleteSummary:
There are so many steps involved in the recycling process. This company (ecostar) takes plastic bottles and grounds them into sand like pieces. There are about five steps to get it to this state, but it seems very time consuming and involved. Even though we do recycle, not as many people recycle as they should. Because of this problem it is estimated that there is about six times more plastic than plankton in our oceans. If you know anything about plankton they are very small organisms and there are a lot of them in the ocean.
Opinion:
The fact that there is more plastic than, lets say, 30 to 40 million plankton in our oceans is just a disturbing realization that our planet may soon become a giant landfill. These companies, such as Coke, are obsessed with making money. They could very easily stop production of plastic bottles and sell reusable ones, but they want to make money so they won't. I think that if we all stopped to look at what Earth has become in only the past few years, we will see how much damage all of this has become.
Very interesting article. As for the recycling steps, we should just forgat about the steps and tell people that they must keep their plastic bottles or we should put a tax on the recycling of bottles so that we dont have to perform these steps and the plastic bottle count would decrease. If this were to keep continuing, our world will be , as you put it, one giant landfill. Maybe we would get the technology to throw our trash into space or some other harmful way of disposing it. Recycling is a good and somewhat effective way of getting rid of trash. We should consider not using plastic bottles alltogether because modt of them are not being reused and getting thrown into landfills or burned.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the movie we watched about the bottled water companies taking over towns and taking their resources. They produce tons and tons of plastic water bottles every day and they dont care where the plastic goes when the consumer is finished with it or if it gets burned in the atmosphere or thrown away into a landfill.
Just the fact that we're making our Earth and soon, our homes a huge pollution dump is horryfying to me. But the worst part of all, is that we can do something about it, but we're not because "it's too much work" and "it's too expensive". If we really cared about what we were living in, then we wouldn't mind putting in the extra effort to make a cleaner and healthier world. As I've said in previous blogs, humans are just naturally lazy and they're just so naive that we don't really know what we have until it's gone. The Earth will soon become overrun with all of our waste and so if no action is taken, we're all in for a horrible demise. The article also reminds me of a movie I watched once when in the future, the world floods itself and everyone dies. It's sad but it WILL happen and we need to make a change.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that using plastic water bottles can be harmful to our environment. This reminds me of the documentary we watched in class about the evils of bottled water. Corrupt water companies like Nestle and Coca-Cola continues to use new plastic instead of reusuable ones. Plastic is also made out of chemicals that are known to cause cancer. They continue to make our Earth a giant landfill. We will be swimming in plastic bottles in the next 10 years if this keeps up.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. Though to be fair, all of us are all humans and in some way we hurt Earth and it is just the ways thing happen. And considering that our plastic bottles outnumber the number of plankton is ridiculous. WHALES eat them and whales have to eat a LOT to fill up their stomachs each and every day. This reminds me of a movie I just saw the other day where the aliens came, but their intention was not exactly to harm any of the humans. They were simply creating a new planet that would help all the other organisms on the earth (so not including humans) could live on, away from the harm of humans. It is true, humans are destroying this world; a sad thought, but there is no denying it. Also, in the movie, the professor had said something along the lines of "Humans will only change on the brink of their destruction." Well, if aliens come our way, then that's what we should say! (haha)
ReplyDelete"Do you think recycling is good or should we stop using plastic altogether? Why?"
Response: We should just stop using plastic altogether. The more we use plastic, things will most likely just get worse because there is no way that we could recycle plastic fast enough at the same rate which we use the plastic to make even MORE bottles. Removing it from use would just make everything better. And just like that video we watched on the water bottle industry, the bottles are bad to drink out of anyways.