Thinking Green - Environmental Tips, News, Commentary

The threat to our environment and life in general has substantially increased over the years. We cannot deny the fact that industrialization is the major cause of this problem because of increased in production. Many studies have been made on how to dispose both residential and industrial wastes and some of these are proven successful while the others are still harmful to the environment. The most popular method is recycling. However, not all of these solid wastes are recyclable thus the rest ends up on landfills. This is another problem which the government needs to think about since solid wastes on landfills take years before they decomposed.

The world has been using solar power for about hundreds of years already. And today it is the most commonly talked form of renewable energy. Yes, it’s true that solar power is clean, sustainable and free. But do you know the alarming truth behind it? Solar energy is considered as clean energy since it does not produce any fossil fuel which destroys our environment however many environmentalists worry about the hazardous wastes from the process of making solar panels. Major amount of fossil fuels are being used just to make solar panels for one solar power. Another problem with these solar panels, their solar cells have toxic materials which cannot be recycled easily.