Monday, November 3, 2008

Set An Example



Every person is responsible for all the natural resources that make up our environment; if you want to help recycle, then you have to take things into your own hands and create an example for other people to follow. People can recycle aluminum, to paper, to glass, to plastic, to used cars, to even used oil. The ad sets a statement that recycling helps clean out our environment and most of the actions that we do will affect our community as a whole; the man in the video didn’t seem to care and was littering his trash throughout his day. The funny part is that most of the time the trash bin is right there and he couldn’t even take a second to toss it out in the right spot. Recycling paper is also beneficial since it costs less to recycle it than to create new paper from trees; it is good for the environment since the production of new paper uses more chemicals and energy. Recycling paper saves forests, but it also conserves electricity, water, and air pollution; you need the will and determination to help others and yourself to provide a sanitary atmosphere. At the end of the ad, it said recycle or your bad habits will catch up with you; I believe that each individual cannot completely make a difference in our community, but if we had everyone followed each other’s actions, we are able to change the world together.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Recycling Water

Water is one of the scarcest resources in the world and it should be one of the conservation items that people need to focus on; in many parts of the country, some people’s drinking water is way below the standards of what we drink here in the United States. Recycling water is one way to reduce the effects of having shortage supply of drinkable water throughout the world and it becomes an enabling technology to allow people to live in water stressed areas; it also provides industries to develop better in those environments. People drinking recycle water often consider it to be disgusting but using it for other purposes will come in handy in the long term use of water. Based on the video, people use recycling water to water the plants in the park, whether then wasting our drinkable water that we need every day. There are water facilities that purify the wasted water into an effective product into two steps; they filtered out all the harmful bacteria in waste water and later filter it out again in a better contamination process. In the video, the facility in California produces eight billion gallons of recycling water each year and it saves a lot of drinkable water for people in those areas; since these facilities has become very important in conserving resources, it is starting to spread frequently around the world. All life needs water, when there is a limited amount available it limits the amount of life.