Saturday, May 30, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
I have recently made a presentation to the Riverside Church of New York City on Eco-Justice day. It was a wonderful experience, and I was glad to be a part of it.
I mainly talked about plastic and how it is severely hurting our environment. Plastic takes 10,000 years to bio-degrade (that means to rot). Plastic Polymers NEVER bio-degrade. We should be using plastic for things that we want to keep forever, but instead we are using it for things that we throw away in a few minutes. Plastic shopping bags just waste plastic and oil. They float in our oceans, drift across our streets, and kill our animals. How can we fix this? The answer is simple. Buy re-usable bags. This goes beyond just reducing plastic consumption, it also gets rid of greenhouse gases by slowing production at the factories, and saves oil that can be put towards powering cars and homes.
The worst are plastic garbage bags. We create them to throw them away. We MUST find alternatives. The bags just sit under the ground and stay there. They trap heat inside of them, causing the garbage to rot, releasing Methane, a greenhouse gas. Maybe we can try a bio-degradable alternative, or develop a system to eliminate plastic bags altogether. Think about it!
I mainly talked about plastic and how it is severely hurting our environment. Plastic takes 10,000 years to bio-degrade (that means to rot). Plastic Polymers NEVER bio-degrade. We should be using plastic for things that we want to keep forever, but instead we are using it for things that we throw away in a few minutes. Plastic shopping bags just waste plastic and oil. They float in our oceans, drift across our streets, and kill our animals. How can we fix this? The answer is simple. Buy re-usable bags. This goes beyond just reducing plastic consumption, it also gets rid of greenhouse gases by slowing production at the factories, and saves oil that can be put towards powering cars and homes.
The worst are plastic garbage bags. We create them to throw them away. We MUST find alternatives. The bags just sit under the ground and stay there. They trap heat inside of them, causing the garbage to rot, releasing Methane, a greenhouse gas. Maybe we can try a bio-degradable alternative, or develop a system to eliminate plastic bags altogether. Think about it!
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