Recycling

Have you ever considered that 7 billion people consume and create all the time? What will happen with so much rubbish?

In the beginning of the 2000s, Brazilian cities produced more 90 thousand tons of rubbish per day. However, 27% ​​of households did not have any type of collection. Only 60% of waste was collected and 40% have been gone into rivers, streets and illegal landfills that penetrate the soil and contaminate groundwater.  And food waste represents more than 50% of the composition. This information enhances the possibility of their reutilization.

It has been estimated that 35% of the rubbish collected in the country could be transformed into organic fertilizer and 35% could be recycled.
In addition there are many people who survive with this rubbish. More than 40 000 people live of picking landfills.

I strongly believe that together we can make this world a better place. Besides you can throw it always in the rubbish instead of on the street. You can separate the rubbish. Paper together with paper. Plastic together with plastic. Battery separates into a collector. Glass, aluminum, iron, steel are examples of recycling. Styrofoam is also recyclable. You can find out which day the selective collection removes recycable in your neighborhood. Thus you'll be helping the planet and yourself to have a better place for everyone.

What do you want to do?

You have to believe in yourself as well as in your potential. You can be a successful person. The success is where you want to get. It is important to know that to be a successful person means that you have to study and work a lot. Nothing is possible. Success is only the way that you choose. You have done the best that is in you.

First of all: you have to dream. Dream is the beginning of everything. Without a dream you don´t know what you want to do in your life.

Dream a lot. Success is to fight for your dreams. Success is never to give up your dreams.

 

Remember:

Confidence is the companion of success

Have Vision. Think big, dream big, keep success in your mind.

Be Optimistic. Think positive.

Have to Faith. Believe in yourself, above all.

Make Planning. Know what’s important each day; set your priorities accordingly.

Be Determinate. Have the courage when taking the big risks in life.

Have Attitude. If you think you can’t, you’re right. Winners have positive attitudes.

Goals. Set goals. Plan how to achieve them.

Be Persistent. Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

Have Knowledge. Learn to accept your mistakes, but make them only once.

Be Enthusiastic. Choose work you like. Enjoy the challenges.

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

Benjamin Disraeli  

 

What do you waste every day?

When you think about waste, what do you think in your mind?

Nowadays there are kinds of waste like food consumption, water and electricity. Food consumption: I believe that every waste is related to consumption. But, why? Because you are always buying food to eat.

Regularly, Brazilian people buy more food than they need.  When we go to the restaurant, choose a huge plate of food and eat only part; the waste will go to the trash. Another example is when you cook at your home. We make more food than we eat and throw one part away in the trash.

However, have we just stopped to think about this? Nowadays there are more than seven million people in the world. And this number grows every year.  There are many people who wish to eat our hot plate of food.

Another point to think is the waste of water. A lot of people take a shower around thirty minutes or more. People spend more time than they need in the bathroom. Most of us leave the tap running while we brush our teeth.

Did you know that residential waste is the champion? In Brazil, the waste of water is around 70%. For example, in São Paulo, 36% of the quantity supplied of water is lost in leaks in the distribution network. 

In my point of view, with the population increasing every day, in ten years time water will be so expensive that we will buy less food to buy a liter of water to drink.

How often do you connect with all the lights in your house? Keep rooms off that no one needs any light on.  Another practice that helps a lot: control the consumption of the refrigerator, you do not need to open it all the time, takes everything you need. Shower and television are responsible for around 85% of the electric bill. Have you considered to pay cheaper electric bills?

To conclude, we have to think about waste and then learn and study ways to prevent wasting systems and habits in order to give a better future for our planet.

Greenhouse Effects

When we talk about possible causes of environment we find many things to be discussed. I strongly believe that consumption is the major enemy of our environment. There are other aspects such as rapid population growth, accelerated urbanization, deforestation, marine pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs, extinction of several species, effects of large civil works, change global climate, food production and agriculture, poor sanitation.

 

Moreover these problems as well as the emission of gases are being connected to global warming. Evidently methane is the principal gas emitted damaging the greenhouse problem.

While the close attention of publicity is focused on the role of carbon dioxide in the global warming phenomenon, some experts warn that we cannot ignore other gases, such as methane. The point is that methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which is about 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide in causing greenhouse effect.

 

Without a doubt methane is supplied in large amounts into the atmosphere from animal agriculture. Livestock, primarily cows, release methane during the process of food digestion. Then it is right to say that promote consumption of cows, will be emitted more methane on the environment.

 

 

 

As a consequence if we get without eating meat and fish by one day each week, so it will not hurt anyone. Thus we can help the environment and have a longer life.

 

 

The Brazilian economy today

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil has been considered one of the most important countries in the world. According to the recently research  the Brazilian Economy has played an important role in the new economic global order.

Moreover, we see that the country is increasing, for instance, in 2011 Brazil had the world´s sixth largest economy. Nowadays people buy more things than 10 years ago.

According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), In May 2012  the unemployment rate was 5.8%;  It dropped to 6% in April. The unemployment rate in May 2011 was 6.4%.  Unemployment rate og May was less than the 6.0% median estimate by economists.

Beside that if we compare the unemployment rate between Brazil and The US, we see that Brazil has 5.8% of the unemployed and The US have 8.2 percent of the unemployed at the same period. As a result, The US have more unemployment people than Brazil.

 

 

On the other hand Brazil has a lot of problems based on political and social environment (including stability, crime and law enforcement), the quality of health care system is not good, poor quality of schools and education, traffic jam because several people have cars and they go to  work by car. These are examples that show why Brazilian citizens should think more about education, because it is the first thing to be improved in Brazil so that many aspects of living here can get better such as health, housing, welfare and sustainability.

 

 

De volta

I am back!!!! É isso ai......  Não estou totalmente na ativa do blog, devido à falta de tempo.... Graças a Deus, tenho muito que fazer, eu estou trabalhando na minha área de formação, na contabilidade no banco Itaú e estou estudando o tempo que tenho disponível inglês para que eu possa ter fluência nessa língua que tanto amo.  Logico, eu arrumo ainda tempo para minhas amizades e minha mãe, fora as cervejinhas, conversas e um bom filme que não pode faltar em minha vida.