Environmental Health

By: Kara Irvin and Elyse Boileau

Importance of Environmental Health

Humans interact with the environment constantly. These interactions affect quality of life, years of healthy life lived, and health disparities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines environment, as it relates to health, as “all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviors.”

Environmental health consists of preventing or controlling disease, injury, and

disability related to the interactions between people and their environment.

Environmental Health and Recycling

Recycling is important for the natural environment and is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live.

The amount of rubbish we create is constantly increasing and we must act as fast as the amount of waste we create.

The Benefits of Recycling

Recycling is very important as waste has a huge negative impact on the natural environment.Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused

by waste.Recycling reduces the need for raw materials

so that the rainforests can be preserved.Huge amounts of energy are used when

making products from raw materials. Recycling requires much less energy and therefore helps to preserve natural resources.

Recycling FactsRecycling just one aluminum can saves enough

energy to power a T.V. for 3 hours.Using recycled aluminum beverage cans to produce

new cans allows the aluminum can industry to make up to 20 times more cans using the same amount of energy

Recycling 1 plastic bottle saves 100 to 1000 years in the landfill.

For every1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people’s energy use for 1 year, the amount of water used by 1 person in 2 month’s time and almost 2000 pounds of oil.

Start Today!

Taking just a moment to put your newspaper, soda can and glass spaghetti jar in the recycling bin will save everyone years in environmental harm from production of new materials, over crowded landfills and the depletion of our natural resources.

Earn money: Many scrap yards pay for scrap metal including the soda cans and soup cans we use every day.

Many useful items can be made from our everyday trash. Ex. the cardboard tubes left over from paper towel and toilet paper can make useful storage containers for our extra extension cords and prevents a tangled mess in the Christmas lights.

The possibilities are endless! If you haven’t already, start recycling today and be sure to spread the word.

Resourceshttp://www.environment-green.com/http://

healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=12

http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/importance.html

http://www.actionrecyclingcenter.com/recycling_facts_0.html