Recycling And Waste Management: Opinion Essay

Waste management is a very important factor in today’s society. Due to the increase of population in the world, the amount of waste that is wasted in also increasing every day. This increase in waste could mean that the lives of many people will be affected in a negative way. Waste is dangerous to society because large amounts of it could spread various diseases, which means that many people’s lives will be put in danger. One of the best ways to reduce waste is recycling or composting.

Recycling is taking useless items that people do not use anymore and creating useful products that people would want to use. Recycling is made in order to prevent energy usage and consumption of the raw materials. The main idea of recycling is to reduce energy usage, reduce the pollution that is found in the air and water, and reserve raw materials that we might need in the future.(Rinkesh) Here in Albania, waste management is at a very low level. Almost nobody recycles, and there are not enough campaigns in order to encourage people into acting right for the environment and contributing to a better life for them and who will come after. (European Topic Center)

There are different types of recycling, some of which include paper recycling, plastic recycling, glass recycling, oil recycling, battery recycling and many more. As there are a lot of materials which could be recycled, but there are not a lot of people willing to help, there are a lot of materials, which people do not bother recycling, since it is very hard to find a team of people who will take the specific material that you are willing to recycle, and most of the time, recycling is too much of a hustle. Many materials are more dangerous to throw in the trash than others. One material that is very controversial inside and outside of Albania is batteries.

There are little to no companies which provide an easy and convenient way to recycle batteries. Batteries include toxic material, which although is not as big of a deal now as it was years ago when the amount of toxic material was much larger. Batteries are part of almost everything in our life, some of which include cell phones, laptops, cameras, and almost every electronic device you can think of. Many of batteries in these devices contain harmful materials that can leak into the air and water supply when they are dumped in the trash(Waste Recycling). In other countries, there are a lot of places that have helped the issue in other places, such as the US, where they have different locations that will take your batteries(Kirschner). In Albania, there is no building that has the reason for recycling batteries. Calling up the very few companies that recycle your old batteries, having to meet them, and giving them the batteries in Albania is too much work for just wanting to do the right thing. If this issue grows, even more, there could be a lot of people affected, especially those who live close to where the garbage is taken in order to burn.

The target audience I have chosen is my family because I have noticed, that during the last few years, we have been throwing all the batteries we do not use anymore. I think I should help with this issue because I want my generation and the next to have a healthier lifestyle and I want to help the people who want to recycle but can not find any people who are willing to help and get left with the choice of just throwing the trash out. As there are almost no companies that are willing to help with the issue presented regarding batteries, I would think it would be quite beneficial to create a solution in order to have a much healthier future.