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Wastes and The Environment





Our planet, Earth, today is so different that what it used to be thousands of years ago. There are a lot more events going on around the globe. Disasters like droughts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and many others are the typical acts of God which humanity have been experiencing in many years, some can be predicted and prevented using advanced technologies or by observing the major changes of the surround environments, however, some aren’t so easy to perceive. We are living in a world where the sources of future’s disasters are more likely to be born. Even though some of us do realize the days of our sufferings will come, we have yet shown any significant preparations to prevent or confront them. Our innocence is nothing but to turn our back against the environment despite the existences of many obvious signs of consequences, and there is one thing to be sure of, the consequences we are about to take are not going to be pleasant. We, as human, are damaging the environment in many ways, and any of them can causes great losses and harms. Wasting is one of the best examples in this case. We are wasting everything we have every day, taking things for granted without recognizing the significant amounts of natural resources are being exploited, and the costs on the environment to satisfy our needs. Most natural resources aren’t unlimited, some of them are such as wind and sunlight, but those are sources of energy which we haven’t had the ability to make great uses out of, or cannot be used to replace resources which we are so dependent on. Excluding that, nearly everything we have now are made of natural resources and had gone through harmful processes to the environment, foods that we eat, the chairs we sit on, tables, computers and everything, and one day, with those resources being depleted or unusable, we will have nothing left to sustain our lives along with a polluted atmosphere, killing us day after day for inhaling toxic substances. The environment we are living in is being effected as we manufacture more products and waste them, and we, humanity, will fall into great despairs and suffers due to our own wasting habits and not knowing when to stop.


Spending hours stewing a pot of beef to try out the new recipe one’s just got from a friend, but it didn’t turn out like he or she expected, so where would the beef end up. How many times have we ever hesitated when it comes to throwing food away? It rarely matters unless it is our favorite food and we have had enough of it, or we might want to save it for tomorrow’s meals. Each individual can waste foods, but the amount of foods being wasted is nothing compare to a large scale of foods wasting that can be done by many or even just one person. Anita Borghese, the author of Food Waste is Energy Waste stated, “Over 92,000 half-pints of milk swirl into the sewers year from a Springfield, Oregon, school. Fourteen percent of food a house-wife brings into her Tucson, Arizona, kitchen ends up in the garbage pail or kitchen disposal unit. A Sacramento, California, farmer abandons 75 tons of onions before harvest because his customer, a hamburger chain, wants only onions that fit its buns (2).” This report indicated the amount of food a person or a whole school can waste, and the difference between the amounts of food being wasted isn’t so big. Maybe it isn’t a big deal in our view, but discarding food affects more than just what our mere eyes and simple minds can see and understand. Food isn’t made from scratch effortless, the work people put into it and the energy which was used to run those food producing machines are essential and worth counting. Gas, coal, power are all compulsory sources of energy needed to produce foods. Along with wasting energy, the amount of toxic substances being originated from power plants, food industrial machineries isn’t going to leave our atmosphere unaffected. As also stated by Anita Borghese, American food industries’ intensively uses of energy gobble up nearly one-sixth of the country’s energy, which most of the time are used for originating fertilizers, pesticides, and farm machinery; irrigating farmlands; processing, marketing, and distributing foods at home and in commercial eating establishments (2). Therefore, wasting food is the same thing as wasting energy, natural resources and severely damaging the environment.


The processes of manufacturing utilities for our daily lives are costly plus calamitous to the environment. The processes including exploiting resources, transporting, converting into usable materials, manufacturing products and delivering them to us, the consumers, all those steps demand a significant amount energy and money, but they also leave back many extremely dangerous effects to atmosphere and environment. As stated in Global Sources of Local Pollution published by National Academies Press, “Human activities produce or enhance the release of a wide range of airborne substances that affect air quality; and poor air quality has long been recognized as an undesirable side effect of urban population concentrations and intensive industrial and agricultural activities (11).” By all means, the air pollution from manufacturers from which our daily products come from has great impacts on our environment. Not including the transporting processes from lands to lands which costs lots of energy and produces significantly great risks to the atmosphere. The final process, disposal, is the most dangerous, where the natural resources which have been taken away to produce goods, now being trashed back to the environment, yet in different and unimaginably baneful forms. Many of our products out there are toxic to the environment, the more we fabricate and waste them, the more dangerous consequences the environment would have to take. Tons of human’s harmful products are being disposed every day such as plastic bags, bottles, batteries and many more, some goes down into the ocean, some are gathered and chunked, creating mountains of junks. As reported by Hester, Ronald E Harrison and Roy M, the authors of Waste Treatment and Disposal, “From the time when people first gathered together to live in communities the disposal of human waste has been an environmental problem. Medieval towns and settlements were often filthy, smelly, unhealthy places, where solid and liquid wastes were commonly tipped out into the street or gutter. Although sewers had existed in Roman times, it was the widespread introduction of public water supplies since the 18th century that turned water-borne wastes into a serious health hazard. Sewage from the new water closets was discharged to road drains and so to the nearest watercourse. In the mid-eighteen hundreds, the filth and stench of the River Thames became so unbearable that the government and high society abandoned London every summer to enjoy the delights of cities such as Bath or the countryside (17)”. It is clear enough to say that even we are being affected by our own careless actions. Waste doesn’t affect the environment only, but also affect human and animal’s habitats, leading to serious health diseases and killing countless of lives in many parts of the globe.