How To Reduce Household Waste

In daily life, numerous industrial products provide convenience for our lives, but at the same time, they also generate a large amount of waste. With the improvement of convenience in daily life, the amount of household waste has also exploded. Therefore, we should actively promote garbage classification, promote the recycling of resources, and cultivate good habits of conserving resources.

Reduce the generation of garbage: 

When discussing the topic of waste reduction, we first need to recognize the close connection between the environment and ourselves. The environment is the cradle of life, providing us with the necessary resources and living space. However, with the continuous increase of human activities, environmental issues have become increasingly prominent, one of which is the problem of garbage. The excessive generation of garbage not only occupies valuable resources, but also has a serious impact on the ecological environment. Therefore, each of us has a responsibility to start from the source, reduce the generation of garbage, reuse recyclable resources, and protect our common living environment.

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The Importance of Environment: 

The environment is the cradle of life, providing us with the necessary resources and living space.

The impact of garbage on the environment: 

The excessive generation of garbage not only occupies valuable resources, but also has a serious impact on the ecological environment.

Personal Responsibility and Action: Reducing and reusing from the source, protecting the environment, everyone has a responsibility.

You can refer to strategies to reduce household waste

Reduce discarded starting points: 

To effectively solve the problem of garbage, our primary concern is to reduce the amount of garbage. The starting point for reducing garbage is every aspect of our daily lives. Daily behavior determines the amount of garbage, which needs to be reduced from the source.

Observation and selection: 

Take a product packaging box home and let's discuss the following questions together: First, observe the material of the packaging box and understand how we usually handle these packaging materials after the product is used up. Secondly, compare the volume difference between the packaging box and the product itself to see what we can discover. Different packaging materials result in different processing methods.

The problem of excessive packaging:

 It is worth noting that some products in the market, such as health products, mooncakes, and tea, have excessive packaging materials, heavy weight, large volume, and high cost. This phenomenon is called excessive packaging. Excessive packaging of some products wastes resources.

Consumer Choice:

Urban surveys reveal that up to 30% to 40% of the waste components are due to excessive packaging of goods. This phenomenon not only leads to the waste of valuable resources such as paper and wood, but also contributes to the surge in garbage volume, while also bringing additional economic burden to consumers. Choose moderate packaging to support environmental protection. During the shopping process, we should always pay attention to and choose products with moderate or simple packaging.

Thoughts on the Reuse of Items:

Reusing items, that is, reusing used items multiple times or in different ways, is an important measure to reduce waste generation. Items can extend their lifespan in different ways.

Reuse in households:

In the family, we often have items that are about to be discarded. Is it possible for them to be reused? Among them, plastic bags are a good example. Although we usually consider it disposable, in reality, it can be reused in multiple ways. Various waste items such as plastic bags can be reused.

Environmental protection fill in the blank and judgment:

Can you estimate approximately what percentage of daily waste can be reused? After some discussion, our class today is about to come to an end. Have you mastered the key knowledge points? Why not self check and see how your learning outcomes are. Self testing of mastery of environmental knowledge.

Environmental Protection: Reducing Pollution and Ecological Risks:

Control soil and water pollution:

 If heavy metals and toxic substances in hazardous waste such as batteries, drugs, and chemicals are directly buried, they can penetrate the soil and contaminate groundwater, posing a threat to human health through the food chain. Classification recycling can block this pollution chain.

Reduce air pollution and greenhouse effect: 

The methane (greenhouse gas) produced by mixed landfill is 25 times that of carbon dioxide; The dioxins released from burning plastics are highly carcinogenic. Targeted treatment after classification (such as composting kitchen waste and recycling of recyclables) can significantly reduce harmful emissions.

Control vector transmission: 

Outdoor dumping of garbage can easily breed mosquitoes, flies, rodents, and cause infectious diseases such as dengue fever. Classified clearance can cut off the transmission routes of disease sources and improve public health safety.

Efficient utilization of recyclable materials: 

Recycling 1 ton of waste paper can save 17 large trees and reduce 300 tons of carbon emissions; One ton of waste plastic can be used to extract 600 kilograms of diesel, saving petroleum resources.

The energy consumption of metal, glass and other recycled materials is only 5% -30% of that of primary resource extraction, significantly reducing energy consumption.

Organic waste resource utilization

Kitchen waste can be converted into biogas (clean energy) or organic fertilizers through anaerobic fermentation. The proportion of kitchen waste in China is about 50%. If fully processed, an average of 30 million tons of organic fertilizer can be produced annually to replace chemical fertilizers.