Hello fellow students! This is our Public Health post and we decided to follow the school of environmental health. We went to a Wal-mart located on Fletcher and Bruce B. Downs and decided to check out where the recycling bins are located. They are easily accesible in front of the main entrance of the building, and color coded to differentiate plastics and metals. Recycling provides reusable and ready material. This is essential because we live in a world with limited resources. Limiting the standard use of raw material versus recycled materials can prevent hazards such as global warming and desertification. Such preventative measures can avoid travesty such as tragedy of the commons. Despite being a highly individualistic society, the United States and its individuals must work in unison to maintain the stability and growth of our environment. To see that Wal-Mart follows NIOSH standards to provide proper recycling for consumers is encouraging. More companies, especially smaller business, must take preventative measures into consideration for the overall benefit of the health of our communities. In an individualistic basis individuals must be educated on recycling. Many family homes do not recycle and do not understand the benefits behind sorting their trash. In order to ensure emphasis in the increasing matter of over-using limited resources, local and state governments should emphasize further education to businesses and civilians. Regarding our limited resources, recycling has helped achieving the construction of homes, parks, and books for children. Therefore, people must always be aware of their surroundings and to be proactive in recycling and waste management.
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Nelson Rosales
Nesthana Azurin
Stanislaw Sowinski
I love this post a lot because I personally believe in the power of recycling. By doing such a small and simple act daily can really make a difference in the environment that we all share. I also agree that we should reinforce educations on the benefits of recycling because we are not doing this just for us but also for the future generations.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading this post. Recycling to me is a really good example of public health. By everyone doing their part, recycling just a can or bottle a day can help keep our enviroment amazing. I agree that more knowlegde of recycling is needed. I believe that if everyone knew all the benefits, more people would chip in. It's all about giving back to our planet.
ReplyDeleteRecycling is such a basic and key aspect of Public Health, and I feel this post really portrayed the importance of it. Hopefully through small things like this post more people will pay attention to recycling and maybe begin doing things in their daily routine that will help protect the environment.
ReplyDeletePublic health has made great contributions to recycling and programs designed to reuse and filter the nations waste products. It's efforts are reflected through the numerous procedures and protocols in effect in cities and towns all across the nation. While we have come a long way in the past few years, it is up to the rest of society to start doing their part. The benevolent impact cannot be fully felt unless everyone does their part. My suggestions for improvement would be to have the cans marked differently. If they were re-designed into an abstract design, perhaps more people would be intrigued and want to participate. It would also serve to avoid any confusion amongst trash cans and those designated for recycling.
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