The Junkyard Planet

One of the principles promoted by the junkyard planet is the preservation of the environment and prevention from dangerous risks. The globe is strewn with dangerous materials, and the items are recycled to protect people from the various effects of the elements, according to the book ( page 2). An unnamed community in southern China becomes the hub for recovering copper from environmentally sensitive areas and recycling Christmas trees ( page 3). With the advent of recycling, this proved to be a worthy solution to the problems that the US and other industrialized nations faced with their garbage.
Another importance is the creation of jobs for the unemployed. The industry for recycling of materials created many job opportunities and also in return increased the country's GDP and thus changing the lives of the people who had embraced farming initially. Households even sold some of the recycled materials to fetch some income. Recycling of the materials went want in hand with employment opportunities. In Minneapolis, annual recycling household harvest was 388 pounds in the year 2010 (page 10). Large companies pc up green and blue bins filled with the materials for recycling from peoples’ homes (page 11).

The prevention of exploitation of natural resources is a value also detailed in the book. China is the biggest consumer of copper worldwide. However, the half of the copper consumer is not the mined one but copper from recycled materials.

All the values presented in the book have equal importance. If the materials cannot be recycled, they present a severe environmental and health problems to humans. Some of them are cancer causing materials and everyone knows the effects of the disease to people.The materials are also challenging to other sectors of the economy like agriculture as they lead to land dereliction if not properly disposed of. The land dereliction renders agricultural land infertile and thus leading to low farming productivity and escalating the pockets of poverty in both developed and developing countries.

The value of exploitation of natural resources also key. Without recycling of materials such as copper would have been exploited. Half of the percentage of copper demanded in obtained from the recycling of materials.this entirely means that if there were no recycling of materials, then they the fields where the materials are mined could be exhausted leading to acute shortage of such materials all over the world.

The recycling industry also created many job opportunities both in America and China. People who had no other means of livelihoods embraced this kind of business.China’s GDP increased as a result of more people being engaged in this industry. The people extracting copper from Christmas light trees earned up to 500 dollars per month, which is good enough to sustain individuals and their families. China manages to do a lot of exportation of the recycled materials to the United States thereby getting foreign exchange.It also imported more of these materials from the United Statessateshence getting rid of the materials from the sus who did not know what to do with the materials.

Justice demands that users use that the consumers of the products exercise lots of care in the course of consumption of the products.they should not dispose of these harmful materials to undesignated places of disposal. Some of these materials are harmful primarily to small, and therefore they should be disposed at locations far away from the reach of children. Consumers should be mindful of the right of other fellow consumers, and they should also mind the environmental impact of careless disposal of the materials to the environment (Mishra2017).



References

Minter, A. (2013). Junkyard Planet: Travels in the billion-dollar trash trade. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Mishra, P. (2017). Let's Reduce the Human Footprint Before Building Human Capabilities. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 10(3), 414-420.