Pollution

Promises have been made and broken in relation to pollution. Our world is slowly but surely deteriorating every second we live on it. Cars are the main source of the pollution that is depleting our ozone layer. Some car companies have tried to reduce the amount of pollution each car produces by creating the Hybrid class of cars which allow more gas per gallon and emit less waste into the atmosphere. Other sources are the trash we throw out everyday. After we bag the trash, put it in the can outside, and the garbage trucks come and take it away, we don't stop to think where this trash goes. On Staten Island it used to be stored behind fences by the mall but the mound of trash became so big they couldn't store anymore garbage there. It is now put on barges and shipped out to New Jersey. Many people don't give thought to the gum wrappers, plastic bags, or other trash they throw out their car windows, or drop on the gound. All of this trash eventually emits waste into the atmosphere causing the ozone layer to thin out even more. Recycling cans, bottles, and paper has become mandatory so we can reuse our trash and make it into something useful. This has reduced pollution somewhat but its still bad. Animals are dying because of all the trash in our oceans that they eat, or get stuck to. People don't seem to react unless it happens to them personally, but when that happens it will be too late. Something needs to be done now to stop our world from deteriorating. What that something is no one has been able to discover yet, but the little things that can be done help tremendously.