Journal 6

My Wasteful Life :



Keeping a log of how many times I used electricity in the span of twenty-four hours, appeared very hard to me. But I gained a lot of insight on the amount of energy I used and some simple little things that I can do to reduce my usage.
The two largest things that I feel I used electricity for were my lights in my room and my laptop. My think I do I good job of turning off the lights in my house when I leave but I did realize that I do keep some lights on when I don’t need them to be on , for example the light in my closest was on for over an hour and it was not needed. When the people from the physical plant came to talk to us they told us that it just drains energy and electricity by just leaving the cell phone charger plugged in the wall so I tried to be aware and unplug it when it is not in use. I think my biggest use of energy came from me using my laptop, I never shut it down. Within the span of time that I was paying close attention to my electric use I realize that it was only unplugged from the wall when I was on campus, which happened to be about 5 hours in that whole day. I feel that the closer attention I pay on little things such as this I can extremely reduce the mark I am leaving on the planet. This can be done by just making it a habit of keeping everything unplugged from the wall until I am ready to use it.
From the Carbon Foot Print quiz that I took a few weeks ago I realized that my life is run by the amount goods that use and buy. This is even more evident when I jotted down everything that I used covered in packing. All my food that I ate was covered in some kind of package; most of it was covered in plastic, but a lot was in paper such as my box Mac and cheese before it was prepared. I have come to the conclusion that packaging makes up about 65 percent of the waste that I produce, I am sure that it like that around everywhere in Florida. I think they are ways to reduce such things, we as a society should focus on covering our food products in packaging that is biodegradable, and will break down quickly.