My perspective of this world relating to family, ecological responsibility, technology, and life.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Plastic make the world go 'round
And it goes around the world. Unfortunately it finds its way into the ocean. I was reading an article in the Sierra Club magazine today and it talked about the giant mass of trash in the Pacific Ocean and the life cycle of plastic. Every year in the U.S. 12.5 million tons of plastic is unaccounted for (Plastic that doesn't reach the dump or to the recycling facility). That's a lot. I'm glad that where we live it's not too difficult to recycle. In Utah, they didn't have recycle bins for pick up or somewhere we could take it to. Right now we collect our recyclables during the week and take it to a recycle center five minutes away. I makes me feel good that I can do something to lessen (although only to a small degree) the garbage being spewed out by our society.
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In big oceanside areas like New York, they take barges of solid waste an dump it off shore instead of landfilling it. Surely, there is a price to be paid for our use and abuse of the earth's resources.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought that in Utah (what with the whole covenanting to be the stewards of the Earth thing) there was less of an emphasis on things like recycling and nice(er)to-the-Earth farming. Course, you don't have to be an environmentalist to be a good Republican...maybe that's why the lack of emphasis in Utah. :-)
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