Global Warming or Plastic Pollution?
The battle to save the environment has many crusaders: governments, companies, and billionaire environmentalists seeking to make a significant change. Zero-emission transportation and new green, environmentally friendly products and packaging materials are just a few advances toward giving us freedom from fossil fuels to avoid plastic pollution and global warming.
Prioritizing the Environmental Impact of Global Warming or Plastic Pollution?
From an individual’s perspective, you and I find a cause, usually one close to our hearts, and try to make a change. We all seek out things that make us feel better. Reasons have moved toward environmental clean-up and long-term sustainability, from zero-waste lifestyles to local area clean-up communities. We pick a side and group; it feels good when others share our likes and concerns.
Environmental issues affect us all.
Plastic pollution has caused worldwide damage. Marine and wildlife have perished in the millions and are found in the most remote of places. GHG (Green House Gas) emissions cause global warming, which fuels climate change that is now making us experience freak weather patterns, powerful wildfires, and storms that grow ever more destructive, and it’s just the start.
Both plastic pollution and global warming, also known as climate change, are global issues that affect the environment. But which of the two presents the greatest danger to me, my family, my loved ones, and my community concerns me the most?
- So what do we do? Which side should you pick?
- Can you afford to pick a side?
- Should you? And is there a winning or losing side?
- So here it is super simple,
- minus complex jargon.
Conclusion on Plastic Pollution
Plastic is not the problem. It’s certain single-use plastics that are the problem. The lack of foresight, proper governance, procedures, regulations, and tracking systems has resulted in a failed and broken system. We are past the point of no return with no solution to plastic pollution yet.
Plastic pollution: Nothing we do can help, yet
All the time and effort you make to recycle your waste correctly at home would MAKE NO DIFFERENCE because as it moves through the systems in place, it would almost certainly be either shipped overseas, landfilled, or incinerated.
While approx 300 million tons are produced yearly, only about 9% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled. We are past the point of being able to collect and pile it all up. Still, if that ever happens, it would create a new continent, as there is no natural way to get rid of plastic on any significant scale presently without causing more pollution. Microplastics are the tiny particles of various products that break down; they are now found everywhere and do not decompose. To date, no science can solve plastic pollution.
Beam me up, Scotty.
Reducing or eliminating products that are not environmentally friendly or reusable seems to be the best option until some science-fiction solution is devised.
Conclusion on Climate Change
The shift towards greener zero-emission platforms is quickly gaining ground from governments to corporations and businesses. This addresses the GHG emissions and global warming issues, which would create more significant localized problems, such as the devastation caused by natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, and wildfires that have killed and displaced thousands and resulted in billions in damages.
Reports Conclude
The UN report states we have about 15 years to reduce or stop GHG emissions. Older regulation has, in some manner, helped control emissions, and new advances in technology and better capture processes, and with larger groups of people converting to lower carbon footprint lifestyles, change is on the way.
Our lifestyle should focus on fixing and reusing items, reducing single-use plastics, and adopting greener alternatives. But can we fight plastic pollution and global warming together?
The danger global warming poses to us.
Climate change caused by global warming will cause catastrophic storms, food and water shortages, and mass migration due to rising sea levels, to name a few problems, and will alter how you live.
When faced with two problems, logic states priority should be given to the issue that presents the more significant threat and can reach an achievable solution.
GHG emissions can be lowered with unified effort, while plastic pollution has No Visible Solution presently.
For this reason:
The Winner Is Climate Change The best fight you and I can give to combat climate change is by separating your organic waste, making sure they do not contaminate other materials, rendering everything garbage to be dumped in a landfill, and causing GHG emissions. You may say, “I already did my part, thank you. |
But it’s not enough. We must do more, educate, and talk to our neighbors. We have to make it so there is no excuse not to separate organics. We must pull more than our share to compensate for others concerned about daily living rather than sustainable living.
The two biggest hurdles facing residential waste management are low participation rates and improper sorting.
Low participation:
Yuck or ick factors are standard terms used to describe the foul smell or odors caused by dirty, messy liquids, maggots, and bugs crawling all over; nasty bins with stubborn rotting waste matter stuck to the walls attract pests and rodents and can spread disease, These issues along with so many others make washing out containers a frequent disgusting chore. These issues stop people from using their bins effectively or at all.
To manage this, we have additional bins in the garage, which we line with a bag and dispose of when complete in the city-provided wheelie bins.
This makes it easy for us to dump waste of all kinds, creating low participation and contaminated waste that ends up in landfills or gets incinerated. Studies show organics make up about 30-40% of all litter in garbage bags.
Improper sorting:
The environment can wait; we are too busy with work, kids, chores, and life. Convenience is always a factor to be considered when managing waste and is often the cause of improper sorting.
Separating organic matter is becoming part of our lives. To improve sorting rates within residential zones, new awareness campaigns, regulations, enforcement procedures, and penalties will be used in the future.
Additionally, removing or eliminating barriers preventing residents from separating waste helps create a better recovery system.
- So what if there were no longer yucky problems
- Disposing of waste is messy and hassle-free
- Would you make an effort to separate your organics?
- Would that make you do the right thing?
If everything to help you do the right thing and sort your waste were handed to you, there would be no dirty bins to clean, no bad-smelling bins, and you would also save time and money and improve hygiene.
What excuse would you use not to separate?
Easy Hassle-Free Clean Bins
BagEZ was created to remove the nastiness and work related to waste disposal. Separating waste does not become a stinky nasty problem with no yucky bins. Without the concern of having a regularly dirty container, you can now quickly sort and discard your waste.
BagEZ makes it possible to fit smaller-sized bags in your bins. Your waste can now be disposed of directly into bags secured firmly by BagEZ. When your waste is collected weekly, it is taken away in the bag, leaving you with fresh, clean bins.
BagEZ allows you to replace bags as needed when they reach capacity easily, so you never have to lift heavy bags and risk them splitting.
The best thing about BagEZ is its versatility. It can be used almost anywhere to turn bags into bins, making it easy to manage and dispose of waste wherever we want. It’s durable, super easy to use, and will offer years of service.
Helping the environment is every one of our responsibilities, and it does not have to be complex and challenging. BagEZ allows us to help the environment quickly, easily, and without work. BagEZ comes in three sizes (Small, medium, and large) to make it easier for you.
Help share the convenience for a greener tomorrow.