Informative Text on Garbage

Informative Text on Garbage

Garbage, a global problem

Trash, waste or residues are the names we ordinarily give to all materials from scrap that generate our daily activities. From our bathrooms and kitchens, to medical centers, supermarkets and industries of all kinds, the massive production of garbage is a symptom of our time, in which plastics and other non-biodegradable materials and of little use predominate, as well as our model of life and consume of goods and services.

It is estimated that a human being produces on average about one kilogram of garbage a day, which might not seem like much. but it constitutes in a world of more than 7 billion human beings, it constitutes billions of tons per year of waste. Of this immense amount of garbage, only a fraction (around 16%) is reused and recycled, leaving a gigantic mass of waste out of place that, therefore, will give to the environment.

What is garbage?

The word "trash" It comes from the Latin versatility, translatable as "that which must be swept away". That is why when we talk about garbage, we refer to everything that is useless and that for both deserves to be thrown away or discarded, without distinguishing between the type of objects or substances that make up. Normally, garbage contains elements of different origin and nature, which we can classify based on two different criteria:

• • Household waste. Generated in people's homes, either by direct consumption (such as the remains of food) or because they are produced by household appliances or appliances (such as batteries, spare parts or damaged elements).
  • Commercial waste. Generated in stores, markets and other places of exchange of goods and services, such as waste paper from offices, food and drink remains from bars, etc.
  • Industrial waste. Generated by industries basic, manufacturing or power generation. They are generally the most dangerous and difficult to handle wastes, such as chemical elements, containers, construction debris or products manufactured with defects.
  • Health or medical waste. Generated by hospitals, clinics and health centers, so their reuse must be according to strict ethical and health protocols, or it is simply impossible. These wastes often pose a public health risk and warrant careful treatment, such as used syringes, used latex gloves, etc.
  • Space debris. Generated by travel to space or to the upper layers of the atmosphere. These debris, such as fragments of ships or satellites, remain in orbit at high speeds and can be a danger for future missions.

• • Organic waste. Which have a biological origin and therefore are susceptible to biodegradation, such as food debris, leaves and tree branches, hair cut in hairdressers, etc.
  • Inorganic waste. That they do not have biological but artificial origin, and that they do not biodegrade or do so very slowly. They are generally the result of industrial or chemical processes, such as plastics, synthetic fabrics, etc.
  • Mixed waste. Which combine organic and inorganic and are therefore prone to different chemical reactions, often unpredictable, such as batteries, leftover batteries, solvents and others substances.

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What is done with the garbage in the world?

The great disadvantage of generating so much garbage worldwide is that there is no space to throw it away and forget about it. The vast majority of this waste is piled up in landfills, very unhealthy places with limited capacity, in those that are left to decompose freely or are even buried to prevent them from coming into contact with the people.

But these spaces are limited, especially in industrialized countries that do not have large tracts of idle territory. In many of these cases, countries pay other countries to receive their garbage. In fact, China was for many decades a recipient of garbage from the West, until in 2018 it decided to ban the entry of foreign garbage to its territory and left that role to Malaysia, considered since then the "garbage dump of the world".

For the rest, the garbage goes to the environment: rivers, lakes and seas they are currently inundated with it. There is an island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, concentrated by ocean currents in its northern area, whose surface is estimated between 710,000 and 17,000,000 square kilometers. In this huge patch of garbage, plastics of all kinds and sizes are concentrated, many of which have been eroded to the size of a grain of rice. This makes them difficult to clean and of immense impact on marine fauna.

What is an informational text?

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Depending on the level of complexity of your language, an informational text can be directed to any type of people (that is, informative texts) or a professional sector that handles technical knowledge (that is, texts specialized).

References:

• "Trash in Wikipedia.
• "Informative text" in Wikipedia.
• "Garbage: environmental consequences and challenges" in University of Mar del Plata (Argentina).
• "Where does the world's garbage go?" at Week Diary.
• "Global Garbage Crisis: 3 Shocking Figures on America's Role" in BBC World.

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