The woods on campus are not something most people would think of when they think of waste, but when thinking about what the trail is called, a “nature trail”, you start to realize that it’s related to waste separation more than you might have originally thought. Nature trails are meant to be a way of allowing people to separate themselves from technology, buildings, and generally any visible human influences on the world. This can be thought of as a form of waste separation, although instead of removing the waste from the view of people, the people are being removed from the waste. In this case, the waste is not really being taken care of, since this form of waste separation is just ignoring the issues at hand in favor of looking at the parts of the world that do not look like they are fully affected. This, unfortunately, leads to waste being added to these areas since people will throw empty bottles and food wrappers on the ground deciding that it does not matter since they will never see it again.
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Paperless
As we chop down thousands of trees to use paper, we don’t realize how much it gets wasted. We tend to lose paper, crumble it, or throw it away after it is written or drawn on.Individually I feel like it would be best if we recycle it. If we have bins for paper we can get rid of all our loose pages that are wandering in our backpacks, brief cases, desks and more. Paper can be reused to create another peice of paper. There’s a process that it undergoes so it won’t end in a land fill. It becomes someone else’s responsibility when it gets thrown away. Whether it’s trashed or recycled, we have no opinion or say on where it will move next. Once it’s discarded, it’s no longer our issues. We should save the trees and allow them to produce cleaner oxygen that we breathe. Lets go paperless!