Main Findings

     Image Source  

Recycling is an important way for less gas to be released into the atmosphere. Through recycling we could shorten the amount of green house gases. Green house gases will eventually make global warming so high. That the earth will be much to hard for us to live in. Global warming is a major enviromental issue. It keeps on making the earth more and more warm. What will happen in the future? What will be our temperature? What can humanity do to find a solution?
 

Carbon dioxides cycle.
Image Source

Greenhouses gases are present in the atmosphere which reduce the loss of heat into space and then contributes to global temperatures through the greenhouse effect. Having a little bit is good, but too much will cause activitys to occur such as  glaciers melting, oceans will get too warm causing fiercer hurricanes, animals and plants will die adapting to the new temperature, and humans will also suffer because of the heat. Already our temperature has gone up 1 degrees! One major cause is carbon dioxide. But carbon dioxide is needed to sustain life. It’s released into the atmosphere when dead organisms decompose and volcanoes erupt. Then nourishes sea life.The good new is that, there can be ways to try to make this problem going down. One way is recycling. Recycling causes materials like paper and plastic, to be reused again. This process is very hard to go through, but with time, money, and effort it can be done. Recycling is a long process a little bit related to reusing in a way.

First the things unrecycable on the paper are removed. Then it’s chopped, soaked in water, and treated with chemicals to remove the ink. A thin layer of this sticky mass (which is called pulp) is dried on frames. It’s then fused together between heavy rollers and wound into large rolls. The rolls are then sold to companies that fun it into something to due with using paper. Examples would be: kitchen towels, paper plates, and etc. After that they are then purchased by whole sale retail merchants and resold the the public. As you can see, most recycable items are treated in almost the same way. Going from collectors to mills, then to manufacturer, and finally to public markets.

Image Source

One major issues is greenhouse gases. More and more are created causing global warming. There are several causes for greenhouse gases. One major cause of this is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is 84% the reason for greenhouse gases. Trees are a solution for this. How are trees solutions? Well, trees breathe in carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen. So even if there’s a lot of carbon dioxide. Trees can keep breathing in the carbon dioxide. But since we have less trees, carbon dioxide will still be around with not enough amount of trees to breath it all in.

Image Source

Trees are a solution for that. Trees are types of plants. They can help greatly with the environment. One tree can absorb the amount of Co2 released by an average car that’s been driven for 4,000 miles (6437km). The more trees, the less Co2 will be around. Trees work like this. In the winter months, when the plants and trees shed their leaves, Co2 levels increased because there was not as much pohotsynthesis going on, which means a lot less Co2 was being consumed. Nature was doing its job. A 1 for 2! The more trees, the better. But humans are continuouly destroying all the trees. One huge reason is because of paper. Paper is needed, but we are using too much now a days. By recycling, we can save trees by using the same paper over and over again. There is a slight problem in this though. Recycling requires a great amount of money, time, and effort. The only way to accomplish this is by making everyone lending a hand.

As you can see, by recycling more paper, instead of just throwing it away, can make a huge difference. More trees will be around and less gas will be released into the atmopshere. The carbon dioxide will be less of a problem and global warming won’t be as severe.