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Waste Management And Waste Management

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1. In the beginning my parents thought that we, as a community do not do enough of waste management and recycling. We keep putting things in the wrong bin even though people may know the correct bin for the waste. For example, vegetable scraps should be put into the green bin so it is converted into mulch, but people usually put them in the blue bin for convenience. They also believed that the important thing about recycling is that packaging should be reduced on new products. Companies package things wastefully and cause large amounts of waste. For instance, everything comes in packaging and often items have many different materials as protection for the product that are not needed. My parents knew which bin to put each waste item in and where those bins go once they are emptied and taken away. They also knew recycling is important because we are wasting too many resources and materials; then just dumping it when we could be reusing it.

My parents both did a reasonable amount of recycling and waste management in the beginning as they washed out cans and cartons to take them to a bottle and cans recycle depot. Plastic containers, other plastics and papers were recycled and vegetable waste was put into compost.

Compared to me, my parents were not taught anything about waste management or recycling and it was not even considered. Everything went to landfill, including cars and appliances, it was all buried and no parts were recycled. Everything that went into this

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