#5 Reducing Garbage: The Effective Solution for Ensuring a Sustainable Future

     Our various lives in affluent society leave huge amounts of trash. The abundance of everything leads to increase of waste. Too much waste has become a severe threat to our sustainable future. Dumping of wastes causes two serious problems to our environment: soil pollution and water pollution. But we can bring about significant change by our small daily habits. Reducing garbage can prevent these harmful results. Reducing garbage is one of the easiest and most effective things we can do for sustainable future.

 

     The first effect of reducing garbage is making less pollution of soil. Soil pollution may not sound serious, but it is one of most terrible pollution of modern society. We produced large amounts of trash every day. Most of this trash had been buried in landfill. Although soil has purification ability by itself, huge amounts of trash exceeded soil’s capacity thus it makes vicious circle of pollution. We just need little efforts in daily life to reducing garbage. Such as reducing use of disposable product, using less paper and separating the recyclables from the garbage can make soil pollution become less and less.

 

     Reducing garbage is beneficial to water environment too. About 70% of water pollution is caused by everyday wastes. The biggest cause of water pollution in our daily life is producing of food waste. The landfills in many cities are already full so we had been dumped our food waste at sea because it costs just 1/10 than disposal cost over the ground. But it caused serious harmful effect to water environment. Conditions look like so terrible but we just need to produce less food waste to save water environment. It is not hard to do but effective.


     Reducing garbage could be an effective solution for our sustainable future. It makes soil and water―part of our most important resource―safely. Additionally reducing garbage can bring enormous economic benefits. The cost of the refuse disposal of the world is astronomical day after day. If we try to reduce waste together we can get not only economic benefits but also our sustainable future. It is most useful and simple method to ensure sustainable future.