Hello, everyone
I welcome you to my blog. The importance of recycling cannot be overemphasized; it is one of the best ways to reduce the amount of waste that hits the environment and harms it. Funny how recycling is one of the least things that takes place on this part of the world, which has in so many ways affected our environment negatively. When I first heard that plastic can stay over 500 years without decaying, I first doubted but was forced to believe it after disposing of one on farmland where my mom practiced bush fallowing. Coming back to it two years later, the plastic still looked good, and there was no sign that it was decomposing or decaying in anyway.
The little or no recycling practice that happens on this part of the world has in numerous ways affected our environment, and we are all paying the price. A village nearby had their houses close to the drainage and gutters flooded with water because it had lots and lots of plastic blocking its way, and it had to look for a way, and they had to deal with it until a community clean-up was done. Funny how before the rainy season was over, the drainages and gutters were filled up again to show you how little we practice recycling or proper disposal of waste.
The three Rs (reduce, recycle, and reuse) are something I strongly recommend if we want to save our environment, which has already been harmed in ways too numerous to mention, but it is not too late to start practicing all of these. We just have to reduce how much waste we produce as households, or if companies can reduce how much waste they produce too, then it will go a long way. Also, instead of improper disposal of waste, we reuse them for other purposes. Not, everything becomes a waste instantly for example the mayonnaise bottle, custard bucket, and other plastics are meant to be reused and not thrown away because the content they came with had gotten exhausted, this way we get to reduce the amount of waste hitting the environment.
Recycling too is important; there are refuses that do not decay or decompose using plastic, for example. Disposing of plastics just anywhere is harming the environment, so instead of doing that, why not find ways to help the environment? So in turn, the environment will help us too. Climate change is a result of how much harm we have caused the environment. If only we can practice the three Rs, we can actually reduce how much harm we cause the environment, and that way it can serve us better. I currently might not be practicing recycling but reduce and reuse is like a culture in my family and even in my place in school, I try as much as I can to reduce the amount of waste produced and also reuse all that I can reduce and cut cost.