Government aid is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities . Above all, man should strive to imitate natural decay by ‘recycling ‘ or re-using as much waste as possible.Magnetic extractors in incinerators could save tons of metal and reduce incineration by ten percent. The packaging industry could do an excellent service by using materials that disappear – fast. The perfect container is the edible ice-cream cone.
To cut air pollution , a Japanese process can be used to convert ash into cinder blocks. Recovering waste at the source is almost always cheaper than clearing it later. Take sulphur, for example, which is in short supply round the world. Wasted sulphur dioxide belched from smokestacks could be trapped in the stack and converted to sulphuric acid or even fertilizer.
We can be sure that just as technology has polluted the land,it
can also depollute it. The realquestion is whether enough people want to take
action. The trouble with modern man is that he tends to be bored by the news
that pesticides are threatening remote penguins or pelicans. The false
assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological
crisis- one that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the madness of nuclear
proliferation.At this hour, man’s only choice is to live in harmony with nature
not conquer it.
By - Brendan J. Carroll
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