Why it's important to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

In Room 6 we have been learning how to write a persuasive piece of writing. For our first try Mrs Sutherland gave us a link to a writing gallery where we can pick the topic we were going to write about. For our second try we had to come up with our own topic and I chose 'Why it's important to reduce, reuse and recycle' We  had to come up with a four step plan where we wrote in our arguments for the topic. Next we had to draft our writing and get all our ideas down. After, we started to proofread our writing to correct any mistakes we

What I enjoyed: was getting to write about the topic I want.
What I need to work on: Using links between my writing
What I found hard: Choosing the topic I want to write about.

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Why it’s important to reduce, reuse and recycle. 

 Did you know that most waste that you throw away and see on the road sometimes end up at the sea and landfills? The waste that we throw away kills marine life like turtles, whales, dolphins, etc. Our waste can affect our climate that could lead to climate change.

Plastic
 Generally, our plastic can take up to 1000 years to break down in landfills. Not only the marine life could suffer because of this but also the birds who hunt fish. This is because they can get tangled with fragments of plastic, which causes them to drown and cause of asphyxia (pronounced as as-fik-sia). This waste kills more than a million seabirds a year. The amount of plastic waste is currently estimated is 100 Million tons of plastic. In the north-central part of the Pacific ocean, there was found a plastic island also known as The Pacific trash vortex. The patch contains at least 79,000 tons of discarded plastic.

 Landfills
 Even though we put plastic and other garbage in the bin, it still doesn’t help the fact that it gets put in landfills. For those who don’t know, Landfills are holes on the ground where our waste goes and gets buried. This waste needs 1000 years to break down. The plastic in these landfills can contain some type of chemical that can spread through groundwater, which can be the water we drink later on. 

Marine Animals 
Thousands of turtles, whales, seals, birds and other sea animals are killed every year because of Plastic. These animals mistake plastic as food and eat them. Once the plastic is ingested it cannot be digested so it stays in the gut. Likewise, plastic contains chemicals that can damage their stomachs. This can also cause starvation, plastic cannot be digested meaning it takes up room in their stomach which later on causes starvation. Some of the marine animals are highly intelligent, for example, a dolphin, they would most likely not eat plastic but they may eat prey that has eaten plastic which means that the plastic gets transferred through them. According to the University of Queensland, more than half of the world’s turtles have ingested plastic.

Our Environment 
 Plastic is used around the world today and is one of the most convenient things we have, although it is not that convenient for our environment. When plastic gets in contact with soil, it makes it less fertile. Plastic slowly releases toxic chemicals that can cause pollution. Plastics take 1000 years to break down so the damage to our environment is long-lasting. Plastic can cause land pollution, water pollution, and air pollution.

 Reusing, Reducing and Recycling is easy. You can help our environment by recycling what you can, picking up litter from the road and recycle it, bringing your reusable bags when shopping, etc. Doing the 3 Rs are better than risking marine animal’s lives, the environment, and even our health. This is why I think Reuse, Reduce and recycling is important to do.