Steps To Reducing Personal Waste

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Discuss the "three R's" of waste reductions and which is most important. What are some steps that you can take to reduce personal waste production? According to our textbook the three “R’s” stand for reduce, reuse and recycle. A good way to reduce is by slowing the consumption of throw-away products to save energy. To reuse is a way to reuse in the present form and saving cost and energy by remaking them into something else. Finally it talks about recycling which is the processing of discarded materials into new, useful products Recycling becomes the last part of the journey to do what we need to do in order to accomplish waste reduction (Cunningham & Cunningham, 2009). In my household we tend to use the three R’s all together as a team. The way we contribute to the reducing of waste cycle is by reusing and recycling the things we can not reduce enough. We buy some articles in bulk and when at the grocery store I don’t pick up bags for a lot of the big stuff, eliminating excess plastic bags. The bags and container I bring home are reuse for other things like trash and collecting fluid that have no business going down the drain. The dog and cat food bags are a wonderful trash bag. Reusing the vacuum cleaner bags is great, I learned that one out of necessity on a day I needed a bag right away and could not make it to the store. Now recycling is to me most important to be by the way that is the one we can do the easiest. References: Cunningham, W., & Cunningham, M. (2009). Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications, Fifth Edition. Boston: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Discussion Two Environmental Policy and Sustainability. For this forum choose ONE of the following to discuss. • Discuss the concept of environmental justice; support your discussion with at least one example. • Why are finding solutions to environmental problems so

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