The poll was SO hard to choose just one from the list - they're all so devastating to the environment, don't you think? But in the end I chose deforestation. we recycle everything possible It's helped here in France that your dustbin is weighed each time it's emptied and you have to pay for the weight you chuck out, so you're encouraged to take any thing it's possible to recycle to the appropriate recycling bin. The environment is something we in our household really care about. Thanks for stopping by and giving the French perspective.Īpposite article for our times. I also like Ireland's approach of making shoppers bring their own bags or pay for them. Because my husband has worked as an engineer at recycle paper mills for so many years, we recycle as much as we can - much more than anyone else in our neighborhood. This one small planet of ours is choking with garbage and it affects us all.įrances Metcalfe from The Limousin, France on March 27, 2018:įlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 27, 2018:įrances - The US could learn a lot from other countries' approaches to the environment, such as the weighing of trashcans and paying based on the amount of garbage you produce. There should ideally be no need for people like you and others to have to clean up after them. Why people continue to discard trash in our parks and along highways, etc. I could not pick just one concern listed in your poll since so many things are of concern and need addressing. We are huge recyclers of just about everything. Know a song about nature or the environment that should be on this list? Suggest it in the Comments Section below.

Plastic bags and other plastic trash kill 100,000 animals in our oceans every year. Global demand for clean water will increase 40% by 2050, according to the United Nations. Styrofoam is the most unfriendly packaging product to the environment today, taking more than 1 million years to decompose!

The human population has grown as much in the last 50 years as it has in the last 4 million years.Įach minute, we lose 100 acres of rainforest.Īccording to an 2018 study, microplastic particles exist in 90% of bottled drinking water.Īmericans toss 25 trillion Styrofoam cups each year. Although they can be recycled indefinitely, only about half of aluminum cans are actually recycled. highway and you'll find 1,457 pieces of litter.Įvery year, 80 trillion aluminum cans are used. Unfortunately, paper still makes up about 29% of municipal solid waste in the U.S.

consumes 30% of the world resources yet has only 5% of the world's population.Įvery day, 27,000 trees are cut down for toilet paper.Īpproximately 40% of lakes in America are too polluted for swimming, fishing, or aquatic life.

Who sang instruments of destruction