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- Managing Waste, To Save Our World
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- Have you checked your garbage lately? Are you aware that you are throwing
- away many materials that could be saved? If we did simple things like
- reusing glass, we could reduce our municipal landfill sites by almost 10%.
- Waste cannot be simply thrown away anymore, now it must be managed.
- Managing our trash is the "in thing", yet it is hardly convenient. Lets face
- the facts, sealed toxins "won't affect us for a good twenty years".
- Although this may be true, there are still many advantages to waste
- management.
- Today, more people are in favour of companies who invest in "green products".
- As a result, companies have removed phosphates, bleaches, and have made their
- paper products out of recycled papers. At home, families, are saving things,
- like leftovers, and making sandwiches for the next day. Industries are also
- manufacturing most of their christmas cards out of recycled paper, since it
- takes 20 trees to make a ton of it. Finally, small businesses are doing
- christmas tree pickups, and reuse them for preventing erosion in stream beds,
- and as fertilizer. Compared to several years ago, people have begun to see
- that there is a problem. We are beginning to deal with it, now we must solve
- it.
- Sarah White
- Andrew Likakis
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