Waste and Ecology

Human are the only species that create waste. We can learn to identify all types of waste and trough their elimination, save money and achieve a more sustainable world.

We have dramatically changed our disposal habits over the last 20 years, but there is still a lot of work.

Today, we should think seriously how we can reach what we call Zero Waste strategy. The Zero Waste strategy (says no to incinerators, no to mega-landfills, no to the throwaway society and yes to a sustainable society). In reality, we do not expect to reach zero waste next year, but we can anticipate that some communities could be very close to Zero Waste by 2020.

Since we all produce garbage, we are all part of the problem. But we can also be part of the solution. We will try to discuss 3 important sectors in which the waste is the most significant: we will firstly talk about the food waste than about natural resources waste and at the end we will develop the problem of waste in the electronic sector.

PART 1:

I’ll start will the food waste problem. Here we’ve got some shocking information about what we produce and what we consume.

Nowadays, we produce enough food on our planet to feed 12 000 000 000 (billions) peoples.

Have you’ve got any idea of how much food we are wasting? In per cents of what we produce we really eat? How many per cents?

Unfortunately only 30-40% of this food ends up on a plate! If we took ONLY quarter (1/4) of all the food we throw away we would be able to feed 1 000 000 000 people.

So let’s think about solutions which can help us to reduce the food waste in the world.

First of all, we should think about the food that is still consumable. It can be rescued by or given to local charities. This is mostly about