Reflection on Recycling

From all the video I watched, I noticed that all raw materials and all energy are provided by our planet, earth, but they are not endless. Unfortunately, most of the provided raw materials and energy are not usable as they appear in Nature and are spread globally in deposits. I also realise if we don’t reduce the numbers of the waste, our planet will be badly damage. In order to save our planet, we are not only focus on the recycling the waste, but also how to use the material efficiently, therefore minimise the waste.

Men need to use a lot of energy and resources to produce the materials we need. So the waste will be continually produced. Therefore the only method that we can save our planet is reduce the waste and it can be done by collect, clean, concentrate, and transform these resources to generate primary raw materials that are usable for people and industry. As a designer, we are not only design the product, but we also need to notice the problems that our planet have nowadays, then our design need to be concern and fit  into the current issue, therefore our design will be useful and functional to our society. And one of the big problems now is environmental issue.
For many of us, recycling has become a part of our daily, or at least weekly. I understand that recycling helps conserve natural resources, and most of people know that recycling conserves space in our landfills. From these recycling ways that we have now, I realized that many people pay attention to the waste problems and try to protect the environment that we live in. Because of the environmental issues now a day, there are more and more environmental designers (eco-designer) that try to design the environmental products for our planet.  Recycling make the product able to re-use and recycling also conserves energy and water and helps to reduce air and water pollution. So there are so many benefits to recycling!!

For example, production of recycled paper uses 80% less water and 65% less energy, and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production.  If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year. For every four-foot stack of paper you recycle, you save a tree. So recycling is very important job for all of us to do in order to save our planet. After watch the video and as a designer, I strongly realized how important it is for us to combine our design to the environmental issue, we can do it by minimize the materials used when designing the product or choose the material that create less harmful to our environment. Save the planet is important, because if we do not take more actions to save our planet, our planet will be destroyed.