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The Power of Recycling | EstheraSTEM

As the World battles with environmental challenges like Climate change, Pollution, Deforestation, Biodiversity loss, etc. Recycling emerges as a one of the crucial practices to solving some of these challenges. It helps lessens the harmful disruption and damage being done to the natural world by conserving it's resources, reducing waste, saving energy, creating jobs and improving our health in general. In this blog post, we'll explore the Power of Recycling, it's benefits and look at initiatives promoting Recycling efforts. Put Simply , Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. Benefits of Recycling The Benefits of Recycling have a far reaching impact on our daily lives and planet and It can be seen in two key areas: Environmental , and Economic Environmental Benefits of Recycling Recycling conserves Natural resources (reducing the environmental impacts of resource extraction and processing) Recycling reduces emissions of greenh...

The Environmental Impact of Cycling

In Celebration of World Bicycle Day (June 3), we'll be exploring the Environmental impact of Cycling and why it's an excellent choice for a sustainable future. Cycling is an environmental friendly, sustainable and healthy mode of transportation that offers numerous benefits: Reducing Carbon Footprint: Cycling is a zero-emission mode of transportation producing no greenhouse gas(es) or air pollutants. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “a vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons CO2 per year” equating to about .96 pounds of CO2 per mile while bicycles emit around .03 pounds per mile (including the emissions produced from manufacturing the bike) and that’s substantially less than even other environmentally friendly alternatives to driving. Air Quality Improvement: Cycling also improves air quality by reducing vehicles tailpipes emissions, which release harmful particles, chemicals and gases contributing to air pollution and negatively impacting our health and ...

Marine Life… Murdered - EstheraSTEM

Introduction Plastic becoming the new ‘fish’ swimming in our seas, rivers the new garbage dumps, animals choking to death on bottles, and innocent tortoises tangled up in bags; this is what humanity has done to our breathtaking ocean; genocide of the beautiful marine life we have been granted. 75 to 199 million tons of plastic waste are currently in our oceans, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering the marine environment every single year. Can you imagine how many innocent animals mistake plastic for food? Death has wrapped its claws around 100 million oceanic animals each year from plastic waste alone and this number keeps increasing. Not to mention the 100,000 others that die after getting entangled in plastic yearly. That is why every individual, company, and organization must work toward a healthier, sustainable environment. The Heart of the Problem: Plastic But to address this critical issue, the essence of plastic must be firstly understood. Plastic is a polym...