Eco Friendly And Edible Silverware

There are so many different ways our world can recycle ,The goal is to reduce the amount of waste ,

Baur, Richard C., et al. 2009, Investigation 7: How Can The Waste Be Made Useful?, Lab Inquiry in Chemistry. Belmont: Brooks/Cole, 2009.

The EPA has a ‘Waste Management Hierarchy’ and it begins with reducing and reusing what we consume in order to reduce waste.

The waste problem in our world has become atrocious. As explained in “A Dirty Dilema” by Zada Lipman, waste from factories is being dumped in rivers, lakes, and open areas with no one around it. In “The Truth About Recycling” written by Leo Hickman, it explains how waste is being checked for quality and how people are losing confidence about recycling. For my last article, "Recycling Rare-Earth-Metal Waste Using Hydrometallurgical Methods." by E. G. Polyakov and A. S. Sibilev, they explain how metals can be recycled for better use or better storage. Our environment is slowly being destroyed because of how we get rid of waste, but we are able to fix this problem.

Much of the food in households, restaurants, and even grocery stores all across the United States of America goes uneaten or is not sold to consumers on a daily basis. Instead of wasting that food, researchers have developed a process that turns it into biodiesel fuel or biogas that can be used for creating heat and electricity, while others have discovered that food waste may contain valuable minerals that are used in the creation of glass products.

The use of single-use products in our world today has created a problem with disposal. Everyday we use products, toss them aside, and forget about them. So

Song JH, (2009) states that “Many different materials are used for packaging including metals, glass, wood, paper or pulp, plastics or combinations of more than one material as composites” (p 364). What this means is that most of the packaging materials we use for packaging contain products that are very hard to de compose and end up in landfills. In order to achieve bio degradable packaging we should consider bioplastic polymers which “are generally still much higher than that of their traditional plastic counterparts” (364). Bioplastic polymers cost much more than regular polymers we use but, if we can help our planet and company become more environmental friendly, we should take that step and use bioplastic polymers for our

more sustainable, manufacturers should consider making more Bioplastics. This is plastic that is biodegradable and safer for the environment because it is able to be broken down by bacteria. This is more sustainable for the environment because the resources used to make the plastic are going back into the earth.

Oever, Martien van den., Molenveld, K., Zee, Maarten van der., Bos, H. (2016). Bio-based and biodegradable plastics: facts and figures: focus on food packaging in the Netherlands. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, (2). 153.

Polymers come in two distinctly different chemical make ups, thermoplastics, which can be reheated, reworked, and recycled, and thermosets, which once cured are completely locked into place and and cannot be recycled (“The Basics”). What makes these polymers so environmentally unfriendly is that they will not biodegrade. The long chains of covalent bonds makes the compounds so strong that they will only undergo a process called photodegradation. This photodegradation means that over time the polymers will simply break into smaller and smaller pieces, never completely going away (“The Basics”). These small pieces containing chemical toxins gravely endanger wildlife who confuse these pellets for food. Plastics are still relatively new materials, their potential not fully reached. The question is how will the use of so many non reusable plastics in a person’s everyday life affect the economy and environment in the long run?

Plastic is a non biodegradable material that is made to last forever, yet only about 50% of plastic products are used once then thrown away. (Plastic Oceans Foundation). The world uses 300 million tons of plastic every year for various uses, “Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications” (Plastic Oceans Foundation). Every few seconds humans are producing about 20,000 plastic bottles and “a million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change.” (Laville, Sandra, and Matthew Taylor). With the way the world is going with

With the combination of polymers that don’t biodegrade and mass overproduction, companies are harming the environment in severe ways. Plastic, a material seen everywhere, is a polymer made from oil. It is mass produced to make everything from shampoo bottles to automobiles and does not biodegrade. When it is eventually thrown out, the waste usually finds it way into the ocean, where it is either buried under sediment or eaten by marine life (Weisman 287-295). Creating a material that will ultimately kill marine life will undoubtedly wreak havoc on the

Bioplastic is becoming a big topic in our society because of excess of amount of waste plastic being used. Bioplastic decays much faster then regular plastic. There are many ways bioplastic can be produced and many scientists are researching specifically making it with natural products. Scientist figured out that high-leveled starch products are very effective when it comes to making of bioplastic. Bioplastic is a very fast developing technology that will help the reduce the amount of plastics in landfills and usage of fossil fuels.

Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water.

Waste disposal is a huge concern for our planet earth. Seven billion people live on earth and every single one of us creates waste. A lot of people think that their responsibility is over once the garbage is in the garbage bin and the garbage workers take it away, but that is not true. There is so much more to the process of waste disposal.