You Will Want To Recycle Everything After Seeing These Photos!

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By Amanda Froelich at trueactivist.com

 

From oil spills to overflowing landfills, man’s unsustainable quest to live a better life with little regard for the environment has caused a staggering amount of environmental disasters to be formed. At present, pollution is labeled to be the #1 killer, affecting more than 100 million worldwide.

And that’s not all… More than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals are killed by pollution every year.

Obviously change is needed – but what can inspire people to live more sustainably and limit their carbon footprint than startling statistics? Possibly the photos shown below, which in their heartbreaking real-ness, expose the truth of what is happening across the globe.

Following are 20+ shocking photos which capture man-made disasters and their effect on the environment. If these photos don’t inspire you to collect trash when you see it, it’s time to wake up.

1. A Tortoise Trapped In Plastic

Credit: Unknown

Credit: Unknown

2. Homeless Koala

Credit: TheGuardian

Credit: TheGuardian

3. Trapped In Plastic, This Turtle’s Waist Couldn’t Grow

Credit: Unknown

Credit: Unknown

4. Bird In Oil Spill

Credit: Charlie Riedel

Credit: Charlie Riedel

Albatross Killed By Excess Plastic Ingestion (North Pacific)

Credit: PollutionSpeakout.org

Credit: PollutionSpeakout.org

5. A Stork Trapped In Plastic

Credit: Unknown

Credit: Unknown

6. A Wounded Seal Unsafe In Its Own Habitat

Credit: Ares Caius

Credit: Ares Caius

7. Oiled Penguins

Credit: John Hrusa

Credit: John Hrusa

8. Surfing A Wave Full Of Trash (Java, Indonesia – The World’s Most Populated Island)

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

9. Plastic Diver

Every Morning This Kid Searches Through Discarded Trash For Recyclable Plastic That Can Be Sold For 35 Cents Per Kilo To Help His Family.

Credit: George Steinmetz

Credit: George Steinmetz

10. Seal’s Nose Trapped In Plastic Waste

Credit: Unknown

Credit: Unknown

11. Bird In Oil Spill

Credit: Unknown

Credit: Unknown

12. Boy Swimming In Polluted Water In India

Credit: greenatom.net

Credit: greenatom.net

13. A Child Drinks Polluted Water From A Stream In Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province

Credit: Stringer

Credit: Stringer

14. Mexico City Landscape, 20 Million Inhabitants

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

15. Turtle Population Killed By Chemicals In Environment (Tunisia)

Credit: The Tunisian Ecocide Group

Credit: The Tunisian Ecocide Group

16. Bangladesh Landscape Filled With Trash

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

17. A Mute Swan Builds A Nest Using Plastic Garbage

Credit:

Credit: Wikipedia.org

18. Landfill In Acra (Ghana)

First-world trash usually ends up in third-world countries’ landfills.

Credit:

Credit: PopulationSpeakout.org

19. Frog In Polluted Water

Credit: LiveIgnite.org

Credit: LiveIgnite.org

20. This Crab Lives In An Old Bottle

Credit: animalnewsthepodcast.wordpress.com

Credit: animalnewsthepodcast.wordpress.com

21. Plastic Bag Floating In The Sea Off The Philippines

Credit: Keith A. Ellenbogen

Credit: Keith A. Ellenbogen

Young Raccoon With Fishing Lure In His Lip

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22. Pollution In A ‘Dry River’ In Bali

When rains come, all this garbage gets washed out to sea.

Credit:

Credit: Katie Pip

23. Cat Sunning In Trash (Wetsahara, Morocco)

Credit: Nadine Kreation

Credit: Nadine Kreation

24. A River In The Suburbs Of Mumbai

Credit: Chirag Sutar

Credit: Chirag Sutar

25. Open Dumping In The Streets Of New Delhi, India

Credit: Emma Valette

Credit: Emma Valette

26. Trash Washed Out To Sea… (Mekong, Laos)

Credit: Raymond Richards

Credit: Raymond Richards

27. Beijing In A Cloud Of Smog

Credit: ChinaFotoPress

Credit: ChinaFotoPress

If you haven’t already, check out the post “These 14 Photos Capture How Polluted China Has Become – And It’s Terrifying!” for more inspiration to start recycling today.

A little bit goes a long way. Picking up a piece of trash when you see it, initiating a recycling program in your town, or lovingly educating others on the benefits of not littering will slowly but surely help to progress the collective consciousness.

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11 COMMENTS

    • If it helps get rid of the problem who cares where it came from. I’m sick of driving down the highway while the jerk ahead is making my world stink with his cigarette the to add insult to injury he bounces the but off my windshield.

  1. I am recycling since over 18 years. The persons are irresponsible to consider sea world as a big trash, the window of their car as a good way to throw butts, plastic glasses, etc. These attitudes are criminal.

  2. My Mom taught me to recycle before there were programs! I remember her cutting every circle of those 6-pack soda can holders.
    I guess it was the 1980’s I had a job with Calpirg going door to door raising awareness about Recycling I enjoyed it yet wasn’t good at getting peoples wallets open so they fired me…

    • Yeah pics 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22(The Raccoon pic would be 22, not the one after it), 27(which is labeled 26 but is not), and 28(which is labeled 27 but is not) are broken and also misnumbered since they forgot to number the picture of the Raccoon but remembered to number the rest. Whoever did this article did really shoddy work…

      • You have way too much time on you’re hands. Put some of the effort you waste like this into something productive. Like shutting up!

    • Its is so sad all over the world but its the governments of these counrty ok. We are just as bad most come from other country but we keep letting it gon and on so when can we stop it ok. It need to hurry up but its going to come a time that it will not happen but there are ways to stop this but once again our government will not let it happen ok. There the antichrist for sure the government they are just that devils

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