I know what you’re thinking: isn’t Wall-E a children’s movie? That is true, but the plot of this “simple” movie is actually quite interesting. Don’t worry if you haven’t seen it, I’m not going to give anything away. So in the movie, the world becomes so filled with trash that all humans must evacuate into space.

This brings up an important point; where is our trash being disposed? Will our Earth eventually become like the world in Wall-E? Yes, there are solutions to problems and undoubtedly we will eventually find a solution, but how long will that solution take to be uncovered? I mean look how long it took for us to find solutions to Global Warming and we still don’t have full support.

Now let’s consider why the accumulation of trash is a really bad thing:

• With all the trash lying around, we will eventually be living in it. If we’re living in trash, then bacteria is probably living with us as well, and we can expect a sudden decline in healthy citizens.
• What about the water? Trash accumulation is going to pollute the water. People need water to live, and it costs money to purify water.Some countries already can’t afford to purify water.
• Next concept is our food. With all the garbage seeping into our soil it would make it more difficult to sustain healthy plant growth. Are you seeing where I’m going? Just in case you don’t, if you don’t have plants you have no food and more importantly no air. Therefore, Earth is no longer able to sustain life.

So we’ll all move to space! Well Earth is the only planet we know of able to support life as is, and even if there was another ‘Earth’ how long would it take for us to pollute that one, too?

If you have any ideas to get rid of trash with out hurting the environment in the process, or just any ideas in general, let us know!