Film Assignment

Trade Trash

Introduction

Trade trash is when garbage is traded amongst countries and this helps to reduce on the amount of garbage in a place. This short essay will present the effect of restricting trade trash, the importance of trash, and how it can be maintained using “harms test” and “reversibility test”.

            After watching “trash trade”, we can see how trading on garbage helps to reduce on the amount of garbage in a given place. The problem that can be identified is, restricting trade trash (Garbage Dreams Theatrical Trailer, 2009). This can lead to an increase in the costs of disposing garbage. Implying, there will be an increase of garbage in the environment which can pollute it in various ways.

            By applying “harms test”, trash trade is important because it minimizes on the dangers of pollution. If trash is exported to elsewhere, it reduces environmental pollution that would come from the landfills. It also reduces the cost of disposing waste. However, reversibly, trash may also be important. Trash can be recycled into new materials that can be used for various purposes. Recycling is important because it helps to conserve natural resources that would be used as raw materials. It also reduces the cost of disposing the waste to the landfills. It also helps in saving energy. Thus it is a challenge to engineers to carry out recycling following these steps; the first step is collecting and processing the wastes. The second step is, manufacturing of products out of the processed wastes. Lastly, products manufactured will be ready for sale (Morgan & World Wildlife Fund, 2009). Recycling is therefore important in the economy because it creates employment opportunities for many people, as many people will be required to work in recycling companies. These people can be in position to earn wages that can help them maintain their families. Recycling is also helpful in preventing wastage of fresh materials, thus minimizing the rate of energy usage and all forms of pollution. This has been a challenge for engineers to control trade trash such that, waste is recycled and used in place of fresh raw materials (Morgan & World Wildlife Fund, 2009). The existing trade trash has been a limiting factor for engineers to practice recycling. This is because, trash is freely transported to other countries and those countries benefit from it.

Conclusion

Therefore, by applying “harms test” and “reversibility test”, we are able to analyze the importance and the detriments of trade trash. Trade trash is important for a country because it minimizes the cost of disposing waste. However, in understanding the importance of trash, it is necessary to do away with trade trash. The waste can be recycled and be used for various purposes in the manufacturing industry. And this will create job opportunities for very many people, hence stabilizing their standard of living.

 

References

Garbage Dreams Theatrical Trailer, (2009). Trade Trash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b26dBL5tQPk

Morgan, S., & World Wildlife Fund (U.S.). (2009). Waste, recycling and reuse. London: Evans.