Paper Topic:

CAUSE AND EFFECT

3 America 's Throw Away Mentality and How it has Affected my Community

America 's throwaway mentality has affected my community and this country in general in a variety of ways we have just . One-time-usage packaging and products that our culture has gotten used to has taken over our stores , homes and lives . With industrialization products have become faster and easier to produce which creates greater waste .I will discuss just three of those causes that I feel helps to create America and the community as being a throwaway

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at which we consume resources and the waste we generate are parallel issues along with how we abuse the environment (Environmental , 2005 . Most of the littering along the roadways of my neighborhood and my community consist of wrappers , bottles and bags that are one-time-usage only or as stated in one of the articles I read the pop-it-and-throw-it-away mentality (Beyond , 2007 . According to this same article , America consumers discard enough aluminum containers to rebuild the entire U .S . commercial airline fleet every three months (Beyond , 2007 . Most young people are possibly not even aware of how many things at one time were re-usable . For example , my grandmother who lives in town still carries a shopping bag made of durable material that she still uses to shop with daily . At one time people would return soda bottles back to the stores for a deposit that would be given back to the customers . Although today they do make some biodegradable bags and have plastic bag recycling areas , much of the litter along my neighborhood and neighborhoods all over the country are from one-time-usage packaging that daily gets tossed out of car windows

Industrialization has brought with it wonderful inventions and not so wonderful ways of discarding some of those inventions . Landfills are overflowing with throwaway products for infants . Well over 350 million disposables diapers a year are thrown out mostly to take up a lot of space in our landfills (Brain , 2007 . Gone are the days of washing cloth diapers . Cloth diaper service seen a resurgence for awhile but it seems even the environment-conscious folks get tired of some of the inconvenience of cloth diapers after awhile . They too for the most part have gone the route of disposable diapers for convenience sake . As stated in the article , Out of Sight , Out of Mind - The Disposable Diaper Myth , The truth is most of the 'disposables ' end up in landfills .there they sit , tightly wrapped bundles of urine and feces that partially and slowly decompose only over many decades (Out 2007

Our personal relationships or lack thereof can easily be included as contributing to the cause of our throwaway society . With the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States , a nation where neighborhoods are populated with individuals who no longer know the names of many of those who live in their same neighborhood for years and the all but one sector of what has become a throwaway part of our society . Some...

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