Thirsty? Care for a drink? Try the reusable water bottles and fill up at the nearby fountain. Feel free to use wood-fiber products, nontoxic sprays, or laptops for textbooks. In my family, I have always been accustomed to using environmentally friendly products and.properly recycling glass, paper, cardboard and anything that had a reusable value to it. However, when I went to recycle an empty bottle of water on the first day of high school, I had to walk all the way to the one recycling bin in the corner of the cafeteria. Due to my curiosity, I asked the faculty members in charge that day where the next nearest recycling bin was. They claimed that there was another towards to end of the hall which most students were unaware of. I went through
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There’s not enough room to throw trash all over the place, pollute, and simply not recycle. In order to understand the importance of recycling, people must first understand what it entails and the proper process of carrying it out. It is also important to know not only the effects of recycling but benefits as well. Unfortunately, most of the poor recycling habits originate in large youth populations such as high schools. There are benefits to recycling paper, plastic, glass and aluminum that are not seen by the youth because of the inability to understand and execute effective recycling habits. Recycling is not a new concept; it has been around for …show more content…
However, there are still statistics that suggest that there are an extreme number of bottles, bags and other plastic manufactured products that are wasted every year. In her recycling analysis, Senior VP of Keep America Beautiful, Brenda Pulley, asserts “In the United States, over 100,000 aluminum cans are recycled each minute. That amounts to 53 billion cans recycled in 2010. However, over $1.1 billion in aluminum cans were wasted in 2010.” (Pulley). This is a reoccurring problem that can specifically be seen in the school sector of America. Arguably, high schools are the locations where there is a surplus of inadequate waste disposal. Recycling is an essential part to society and failure to do so creates environmentally unsafe conditions. Schools as a whole know this but not all of them take it into consideration. Many high schools like mine fail to promote accurate waste disposal. While it may thrive academically and athletically, the fragile recycling system of Souderton Area High School’s is one of its largest weaknesses. In order to cure this problem, a waste disposal system where there are specifically labeled and accessible bins should be implemented. The accumulation of better recycling programs similar to the one at The Pennsylvania State University will progress to enhance the environment. On State College 's campus, there are many simple
There’s not enough room to throw trash all over the place, pollute, and simply not recycle. In order to understand the importance of recycling, people must first understand what it entails and the proper process of carrying it out. It is also important to know not only the effects of recycling but benefits as well. Unfortunately, most of the poor recycling habits originate in large youth populations such as high schools. There are benefits to recycling paper, plastic, glass and aluminum that are not seen by the youth because of the inability to understand and execute effective recycling habits. Recycling is not a new concept; it has been around for …show more content…
However, there are still statistics that suggest that there are an extreme number of bottles, bags and other plastic manufactured products that are wasted every year. In her recycling analysis, Senior VP of Keep America Beautiful, Brenda Pulley, asserts “In the United States, over 100,000 aluminum cans are recycled each minute. That amounts to 53 billion cans recycled in 2010. However, over $1.1 billion in aluminum cans were wasted in 2010.” (Pulley). This is a reoccurring problem that can specifically be seen in the school sector of America. Arguably, high schools are the locations where there is a surplus of inadequate waste disposal. Recycling is an essential part to society and failure to do so creates environmentally unsafe conditions. Schools as a whole know this but not all of them take it into consideration. Many high schools like mine fail to promote accurate waste disposal. While it may thrive academically and athletically, the fragile recycling system of Souderton Area High School’s is one of its largest weaknesses. In order to cure this problem, a waste disposal system where there are specifically labeled and accessible bins should be implemented. The accumulation of better recycling programs similar to the one at The Pennsylvania State University will progress to enhance the environment. On State College 's campus, there are many simple