1000 Flowers for the Planet - #312 Clean Up Land Waste
This planet of ours has ‘land’ and it has
‘water’ and we’ve managed to pollute both extremely well. It’s time to reverse
our damaging ways and begin the massive cleanup. It’s time to realise that when
we throw something ‘away’ it doesn’t simply vanish into thin air. It doesn’t
disappear. ‘Away’ is an actual place, in fact thousands of places around the
world called ‘landfill’. Search the Internet for images of landfill and see how
repulsive they are. Everywhere you look you can see waste – it’s the rubbish in
the streets, plastic bags stuck up in trees, paper blowing around the streets,
rubbish dumped in public garden spaces or on roadsides. See what waste looks
like in real life, then decide it’s time to do something about it.
Participate in cleanup days – We have ‘Clean Up
Australia Day’ in my country, so you check out what’s in your country. Keep
your own neighbourhood tidy – if you see rubbish on the ground, pick it up and
prevent it from going into waterways. Be aware of what is happening in your
vicinity – is their any local industry that is creating massive waste and not
dealing with it appropriately? Create an action group that encourages industry
to be responsible. Find ways to reduce your own waste/rubbish/trash (whatever
you call it) and be proactive in cleaning up after yourself and encouraging
others to do the same.
On a larger scale, we need to do something about
the landfill we’ve already created. Perhaps instead of spending money working
out how to put people on Mars we should concentrate our scientific knowledge on
cleaning up our own back yard – this planet we call Earth, which is already our
home. We need to find ways of reusing that which we have tossed away as
useless, and make it useful. Maybe it could be used to generate energy, or
maybe more of it can be recycled if we put our minds to it (and our wallets).
Once we concentrate our efforts, I’m sure we’ll find good answers to our
problems.
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