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Waste Disposal Methods Must be Improved

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Have you ever imagined that Earth is no longer available due to pollution? As shown in Wall-E, people recognize that wastes can lead Earth to be unavailable for all lives because of toxic gas from wastes. In each day, tons of wastes are create, and they are disposed with vary disposal methods. Unfortunately, current disposal methods have limitations; landfill and incineration create harmful chemicals that pollute Earth. Even if people live only with necessity of life, wastes are still created and they needed to be disposed. Even though current waste disposal methods solve problems caused by wastes, they create another problem while disposing wastes. When disposing waste with current methods, wastes seem to be disappear, but they are …show more content…

Moreover, there is another limitation that recycling has: lack of motivation for people to recycle. Even though WM made recycling easy, not all people recycle. MassDEF (2002) states that people do not recycle because people are not motivated to recycle. As there is no specific reason to recycle, they do not use their time to recycle. These are the limitations that recycling have. To improve the first solution to disposing wastes, recycling, two things are suggested: motivate people to recycle and send e-wastes to WM. MassDEF (2002) suggests solutions to motivate people to recycle which is letting people "perceive effectiveness of recycling", "concern about the environment", give "social pressure", and provide "financial motive". If people know how recycling helps environment and what environment their child will live, they may have motives to recycle. Also, if WM price the wastes even as small amounts of money, then it may give people a financial motive to encourage people to recycle. If they do so, people still may not recycle, but there will be some people who collect recyclable wastes from roads or some other places to get little money. As people gather more wastes for recycling, significant amount of recyclable wastes that will be landfill will be reduced. In addition, there is a solution of problem of difficulty in recycling electronic

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