Earth Hour Was a Success?

The WWF and their supporters do so much not just for the animals but for climate change. Over 55,000 promised this last week on World Earth Hour to stop their use of things that they know are hurting the environment. Their promises included: use reusable bottles, no more plastic straws among other things. So many people did their promise.

There were celebrities such as Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter (of Mcfly fame)–they are active in the fight for climate change. While all this has been said and all the good that was done that day and the past years it has been held, why do I still feel so bad?

I know why I feel so bad. I still see so much waste everywhere. I see people's obvious disregard to their environment and the things around them. I see rubbish and litter in bushes, in the canals and people don't seem to care at all. They are directly affecting their environment, the animals, and the Earth by doing so.

The places that make me feel the worst and at time just sick. The places that I work. "We recycle" they tell me. I say it's just not good enough. We do the bare minimum as I see it. We have recycle bins for cardboard, we have them for glass bottles. Guess what, we don't recycle and that is one of the worse things for this earth. Plastics, like bottles, packaging, straws and none reusable cups and their lids, also paper from printing—just in the normal bin it goes. The biggest thing for me if the lack of knowledge of what this doing and what plastic is doing to our planet.

Where does all this plastic go, I hear you ask? In with the normal waste. They don't have their own bin. They don't even get a second look as people throw them in with the rest of the rubbish we throw out that just goes to the land fills.

I have tried to make a change at these places. I bring it up in meetings and I even had made a separate area to throw the plastics in; they removed it. It just gets looked over and how is that these companies say they recycle, companies that are trying to make a difference and helping against climate change. How is this helping? I'm trying to make their lack of 'difference' actually do more than their words.

I’m not going to give up with this issue. I want the places I work and go to be seen as green companies. I know they can’t be completely green but if we just make sure that plastic that’s so bad is gotten rid of the right way it will be so much better.

People recycle at home so why do they think that in their work it doesn’t matter as much? Their places of work are to be handle accountable for the state that the planet is in just as much as a single person as they use so much packaging and things that could be recycled. Recycling isn’t too hard especially if you show your staff that you care and you are doing good they will want to follow.

After all that has been said, this is a planet that we share and we are the only ones doing any bad towards it. The animals can't help us with our recycling, we have to do this for us and for them. We got us all into this situation of global warming so we have to all work together to get the planet healed.

The link below will take you to where you can make a promise for the planet.

Make a Promise

https://www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour?skip_to=choose&pc=EKN005001&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4LPWt7yH2gIV4hbTCh2JbgfAEAAYASAAEgIr5fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds