terça-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2009

Everything is transformed


Modern society is a source of consumption and waste at the same time, the indicator of the abundance and prosperity technology, is the mountain of garbage that accumulates in landfills. Each Brazilian produces a pound of garbage per day, or 25 tonnes during his life, on average, 70 years. The matter is worrying, since trash does not end when we played in the trash, and, nor, with the responsibility of those who does.
Even knowing that Brazil bill, annually, 1.2 billion dollars to the recycling of waste, equivalent to 1% of solid waste produced, the real truth is that it does not by conscience, not to be the source of income capable of maintain society's survival in the era of comfort.
The landfills, in fact, produce food for rats, vultures, abandoned animals for human miners. In the pile of discarded, there are different forms of waste and the soil also leads to different times degrades them. Some debris take more than five centuries to decompose and the cells and batteries, contain elements that cause harmful effects to the body when released in the garbage crying ("chorume" in portuguese), a poorly odoriferous liquid that contaminates the water table.
But worst of all is that, when grounded, the chemical reactions involved in fermentation, mainly gas will generate methane, a greenhouse-gases.
If about 40% of that purchase is considered junk, and is awaiting an environmental order, I think that more appropriate, continue the public aware about the reuse of packaging before you discard them. We need to mobilize people for the correct procedures for the separation of waste, with the appropriate placement into landfills.
Let's think: a kilogram of broken glass can make a kilogram of new glass, with the recycling of 40 kg of paper can prevent the cutting of a tree, the energy used for recycling of paper is four times lower than that spent on primary production and the aluminum that difference is 15 times. If a simple option to use glasses, dishes, cutlery and paper timber, instead of plastic utensils, can make pollution reduced, why not then think better? If the frying oil, which plays down the drain, can be used to make soap and moving engines, we recycle them, Come! Moreover, the garbage, even with processed crude separation, form a rich organic compound, a source of essential nutrients for plants.
Despite everything, I'm enthusiasm that the environmental contamination of urban areas, for improper disposal of solid waste - domestic, industrial and hospital - is already receiving considerable attention from public sectors.
It is known that it is difficult to live without producing garbage, but the imperative is not to let it accrue in an irresponsible manner, because, according to the law of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, in nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost and everything is transformed. Let us transform ideas, values, reuse of waste that is part of preserving the environment, before it becomes a pile of garbage, including human carcasses.

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