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| Disposables: Is It A Curse To The Environment Or Treatment For Food Safety? |
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Kathie Wolf |
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Since time immemorial, man has continuously hurdled with the battle of deciding on what is good for him and what is not. Subsequently, in its course, there are those that are unintentionally displaced to make room for progress and development. The price that he has to pay for it is gradually unfolding now before his eyes but with terminality as man chooses progress over other conditions.
One of the by-products of development and progress is the commotion of the balance between the co-existence of human and nature. The disruption of the food cycle and the continuum of life cycle, as a result, hamper human efforts to achieve its ultimate goal. Whether intentional or not, such disruptions affect the major decisions that we opt to implement.
Just to mention a few, the implementation of waste segregation, solid waste management and recycling programs, the use of hybrid cars, the Clean Air Act, are the important steps that both the government and non-government organizations including private sectors and schools are channeling their resources and efforts into. However, the vastness of waste producers is profound and unaccounted for, that a monumental effort to lessen it only results to an insignificant proportion.
Restaurants, fast-food chains, convenience outlets, among others have continued to produce wastes at an alarming rate. With their use of disposable dining implements, such businesses continued to be the greatetst contributors to the tons of non-biodegradable wastes generated everyday and nobody knows how and when such wastes vanish the face of the earth when they are dumped into landfills or thrown by consumers elsewhere. A Mc Donald's restaurant, for example,with its billions and billions served, is constantly filled with people lining up the counters just to get their usual wrapped burgers and boxed fries meals so perhaps, they as well generate billions and billions of tons of non-recyclable wastes. It is reported that around the world in urban zones, solid wastes generated annually reaches about 10 billion tons, of which less than fifty percent is collected and disposed appropriately, with North America producing about 30 percent of the total waste.
However, the use of food wrappers and disposable dining by fast-food chains, on the other hand, have largely reduced the incidences of food-borne diseases, cross-contamination, and the spread of infectious diseases relative to the use of contaminated dining elements and improper washing and sanitizing procedures. Many restaurants either use washable dining implements or are involved in recycling activities to compensate for their shortcomings. In Germany, recycling rate is at 90 percent. Mc Donald's, however, recycles over 17 tons of corrugated cardboard and 13,000 pounds of used cooking oil converted into biodiesel.
The use of disposables and washable dining ware has its positive effects as well as downsides. What matters is how each choice is implemented such that it does not pose a threat to our health and nature. With your effort, even a small percentile can result to miracles. Your choice of commercial restaurant supplies will affect the population and nature in general; hence, choose intelligently. A wrong choice of bar and restaurant supplies is a threat to millions and the environment. |
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