Waste or rubbish is what people throw away because they no longer need it or want it. Almost everything we do creates waste, and as a modern society we are currently producing more waste than ever before. We do this at home and work. The fact that we produce waste, and get rid of it, matters for the following reason:
- by throwing away things we don't need, we contribute to the degradation of the environment .
- When something in thrown away we fail to see it as a resource. It is well understood that is waste to one person may not be viewed as waste by another. People are becoming more and more aware that garbage can be reused and not thrown away.
- When something is thrown away, we lose natural resources. The use of natural resources cannot go on indefinitely - we would run out of them - because not everything we dispose of isuseless.
The way in which we consume materials will affect wheather we have a sustainable socety that leaves resources available for future generations to use. As consumers and producers, we can do better thing with our so-called "waste" than throw it away. We need to see "waste" as a "resource"
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