We all, 7 590 378 000 people in the world, produce 2.12 Billion tonnes of waste globally each year. Annually this number increases by 3%.So if the current trends of living continue, by the 2025 year we will double this number.
Most of the garbage is thrown into rivers, seas and oceans. One of the consequences is forming of Great Pacific garbage patch which consists of about 87 tons.
But even more detrimental it effects on aquatic animals. Many of them eat garbage and die
and the rest of them are become harmful to consumption. So because of that statistic says that in 30 years there will not be any seafood in the ocean.
It is hard to imagine what will be with earth in 50 years if we do nothing. And I’m not even talking about any other world’s pollution or cosmic trash, or increasing population, or climate change. Well. what we need to do to stop this?
Sorting system became the most popular in European countries. And in my opinion this should become a common thing for every developed country on the planet.
To start, you need to sort it by few types like: glass, organic waste, non-organic waste( plastic) and plastic bottles you can carry it back to the store and get a refund of the money expended on the packaging. So you have to create some space for this task and prepare two or three garbage boxes.
Making energy from recycled waste
Artists collect paintings from it, photographers create whole series of portraits of people surrounded by their own rubbish, entrepreneurs open restaurants with dishes not bought in time at the supermarket, architects and planners use garbage as a building material, as, for example, in Japan when building an artificial island Odaibo.
Or even making energy from biomass, or biogenic (plant or animal products), materials such as paper, cardboard, food waste, grass clippings, leaves, wood, leather products. You can make energy by burning waste, so it could also reduce the amount of material that would probably be buried in landfills.
Second life of waste. How we can use it.
There are many companies that use recycled materials in the production of new things.
For example, the last few:
Famous manufacturer of sneakers Adidas started create shoes from the trash from ocean.
And another one make sole of sneakers from processed collected chewing gums.
Questions:
1.What do you think about this problem?
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrese ecological catastrophe?
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
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I am not sure how I could decrease ecological catastrophe, but when I travel in wildlife I at least don't pollute environment by leaving used plastic bags.
Yes, I would buy them.
It is important what They do with it, maybe they don't throw it out in the forest, but there is no transparency in this matter. And actually, I don't know what position Poland has in wastу recycling, they don't have this kind of thing like sorting waste, so I don't have any idea what are they doing with it. And Adidas and New Balance are not the only companies which make things from recycled waste.
Everyone knows about it but not everyone tries to save it or at least prevent pollution spread. To my mind it's one of the biggest problems nowadays. Most people just simply don't realize what could happen in just a few decades.
I can't whether I do something or not but I sincerely hope that I pollute the environment as less as possible. I would buy these things but I wish I could easily forget about the fact that these thing are made from rubbish :)
I agree that recycling is very important. And try to recycle as much as I can. But for example my house have only container for mixed garbage, so I cannot segregate rubbish.
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrease ecological catastrophe?
I use backpack instead of plastic bags, and try to recycle as much I can.
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
Of course, but they need to become standard, not just one time offer.
I think it is a great video. All videos that are educational and show how we can change our ways as individuals and also as a society, in order to improve our surroundings and do something for Mother Earth, is crucial, especially nowadays. Waste is a problem that will become bigger and bigger - because the population is growing and the amount of waste will therefore be piling up if we don't come with smart solutions.
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrese ecological catastrophe?
I try to segregate and I try to bring my own bags when I go shopping. I also never litter,
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
I think I would, at least out of curiosity to see how the materials work and what is the quality of the products. Even if they turned out not very good, I wouldn't regret buying them, as I would have felt I contributed to the community.
That is huge problem of our time, we need to take care of it because future generations will have a big problem. The amount of trash is so big that nature will not handle this by its own.
Do you do something to prevent or decrease ecological catastrophe?
I think not much, I no throw trash on street or water, but I also produce a lot of trash, which is not good. I continuously look for some good idea but I do not have any.
Would you buy this kind of things?
Why not, the price should be bigger than normal, and part of it should go on resolving trash problems.
I don't believe in the way of personal segregation of garbage. I choose to be a programmer exactly for the reason of hating to do some boring brainless manual job as segregation is. Most of the people are too lazy to do that and effects of that is to shallow. I would say technology is the way to go as always. There should be some method to do it automate it and force producers to pay some kind of fee for damage they make instead of shift the responsibility to consumer.
It's not a problem for me to use refurbished products as there price and quality comparable with new analogy.
I'm trying to make eco things as much as I can but product developers also must make their product easy to recycle. Also I think that we must show possibility of recycled things especially when we recycle our trash in right way and we get money or some visible benefits from this.
I think that the answer is easy - no one wants to live in dirty environment. We just have to make sure that we won't ever have to.
I don't really do much on this topic, but it's all about the simple things like segregating the wastes. It doesn't require much effort and could actually make a change if more people would start doing it.
I don't mind buying things like that as long as they're not insanely overpriced. Buying stuff like that is fair as long as it's not as expensive as the brand new and fresh products.
I think that world is so poluted, and we are not aware of this problem. We should do something to minimize the polution, otherwise the world may fall apart
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrese ecological catastrophe?
I'm trying to segregate waste, but I'm afraid that's all that I'm doing :(
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
I don't have a problems with buying things like that.
2. I don’t really know what I could do to stop it other than by not contributing the problem. I segregate my trash and don’t loiter.
3. I would buy anything that is made from recycled materials. I see no reason not to.
2. Yes, of course, I try to reduce the amount of garbage, segregate garbage at home.
3. Yes, I liked this idea, I think an excellent advertisement for those who are on the protection of the planet from garbage. In large cities, the biggest problem with garbage is and I hope there will be more creative ideas for garbage processing in the future.
People are just uneducated if they throwing away bottles and other trash in the land/water. we should make less trash and recycle more.
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrese ecological catastrophe?
actually i'm using my cup for every drink , water for example and not bottles.
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
sure! perfekt idea and I would love to wear someting that was recycled .
So, I think that this kind of things are great! Buying it we can help our Earth and our community to be heatly. We can also have beautyful things to use for our daily life!
Not really. I have no clue about what I can do more than sorting my rubbish or support ecological farms.
If only it would be as good as "polluted" one, then yes. I hope we would get some hype on recycled clothes in the future. Same as we saw with veganism. Nowadays you can go for lunch to vegan restaurant and order food that tastes like meat, but it's made from vegetables. It's revolutionary in my opinion. When we would get to the same level as recycling, I am sure that people will switch to these items.
That's a massive problem, west nations try to decrease their non-recyclable waste by selling them to other countries like Poland, however many of those wild illegal garbage dumps were burned in last months to hide evidence.
2.Do you do something to prevent or decrese ecological catastrophe?
I try to recycle old books, and paper, however its still too little, because of lack of proper plastic recyclicng in poland
3.Would you buy this kind of things?
People are going to buy them, they just shouldn't be more expensive because of their ecological hype.