The last month's monsoon resulted to a serious flood in the area of Manila and even here in Laguna. It was perhaps the worst floods to hit the area of Calamba that I've witnessed in my entire life.
According to my father's story, The last great flood that hits our province was in 1972, 3 years before I born. Even the previous storm Ondoy did not leave that strong impact in our area. Now I basically just say it has a very big serious negative effects to the people living Laguna. As I watched the footage on television, I saw a thick garbage returned by the sea to the land. Indiscriminate waste dumped by the people into the sea and to the river caused the blockage of the waterways.
They said, we should blame the government for neglecting the proposed rehabilitation project of canals, rivers and sea. In my perspective, government's fault should only be considered as the secondary factor causing of this wide flood, the direct culprit here are the abusive people who throw their trash improperly to anywhere they want.
There are also illegal loggers to blame, who mercilessly cut the trees which serves as the reconstruction of our forests. When will those people realize that the more they abuse the environment, the more chances of calamities and natural disasters to heat the world. These are the reasons why we have to be conscious, stop being so insensitive as if were superheroes that can always survive. Act now! do something about saving the environment. As I said before, there are hundred or thousands ways on how to protect our environment, doing just one will contribute a huge help in saving our mother earth. The number one and the easiest way we can do to contribute in saving mother earth is by means of recycling. Recycling waste and used materials can do a lot in minimizing our everyday wastes. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you're already familiar with those recycling projects I have finished and shared thru this blog. I have done recycling old pants, recycling left-over clothes, recycling plastic foils, recycling old magazine, recycling news papers, recycling socks and many more recycling ideas all have posted on this blog. Let me give you another more example of recycling waste.
Recycle an Old Drum into a mini garden.
According to my father's story, The last great flood that hits our province was in 1972, 3 years before I born. Even the previous storm Ondoy did not leave that strong impact in our area. Now I basically just say it has a very big serious negative effects to the people living Laguna. As I watched the footage on television, I saw a thick garbage returned by the sea to the land. Indiscriminate waste dumped by the people into the sea and to the river caused the blockage of the waterways.
They said, we should blame the government for neglecting the proposed rehabilitation project of canals, rivers and sea. In my perspective, government's fault should only be considered as the secondary factor causing of this wide flood, the direct culprit here are the abusive people who throw their trash improperly to anywhere they want.
There are also illegal loggers to blame, who mercilessly cut the trees which serves as the reconstruction of our forests. When will those people realize that the more they abuse the environment, the more chances of calamities and natural disasters to heat the world. These are the reasons why we have to be conscious, stop being so insensitive as if were superheroes that can always survive. Act now! do something about saving the environment. As I said before, there are hundred or thousands ways on how to protect our environment, doing just one will contribute a huge help in saving our mother earth. The number one and the easiest way we can do to contribute in saving mother earth is by means of recycling. Recycling waste and used materials can do a lot in minimizing our everyday wastes. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you're already familiar with those recycling projects I have finished and shared thru this blog. I have done recycling old pants, recycling left-over clothes, recycling plastic foils, recycling old magazine, recycling news papers, recycling socks and many more recycling ideas all have posted on this blog. Let me give you another more example of recycling waste.
Recycle an Old Drum into a mini garden.
This is an old rusted drum. If I'll just junk it, it would be stacked for a longer time. It may also be scattered in my back yard. What I did with this drum is I use it as a mini garden. I put some garden soil in it. Actually, I also composed the garden soil that I used here. I simply put all biodegradable wastes in an old pale with holes at the bottom and cover with soil every time I put biodegradable wastes such as left-over foods or swept leaves. If you'll notice the water level in our back yard is a bit high, you'll probably think that it would be impossible to grow a plant on a flood. But with this old drum, I'm able to grow a vegetable on a flooded area. You won't believe that this "Okra" plant is now bearing fruit because of the healthy garden soil I made my self.
Worn Out Tire as Mini-garden
My husband changes his tires every 3 months so they used to stocked in the garage. They all scattered and became a home of deadly mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. Since my heart loves recycling, instead of thinking to throw them away, I decided to make it as another mini garden. As what I did with the drum, i put garden soil in it and plant vegetables. Every morning, I am so excited to visit my mini garden, I can't explain the feeling that I've contributed a help to minimize waste that helps protect the environment. The fruits of my mini garden were just my bonus. Anyone can do this, even in water world, we can still plant by the help of recycled wastes. But let's hope and pray that we won't become a Water World someday.
