What are the toys of landfills?
Anyone who was a parent, teacher or nanny experienced the frustration of the dumps, although he did not know about this period. The toys of landfills get the nickname of the fact that they are usually cheap and are likely to be fired relatively quickly. Not all cheap toys are toys of landfill; The term is stored for toys that are quickly abandoned - probably ending in a landfill - for various reasons. Toys that are poorly or cheaply produced cannot often stand hard by using children. Most often made of cheap plastic, toys of landfills can break, melt or lose pieces. This can either make a toy unusable, or just less attractive - both leading to the fact that the children left the toy and arrived at the landfill.
Even toys that are not broken can quickly lose their attractiveness. Toys with a cartoon or film characters that have lost popularity or that Children has grown up are quickly included in a pile of gifts or garbage cans. Toy, toTerá was necessary for the existence of a child last week, may now be forgotten or contempt.
Anyone who bought any type of children's food in a fast food restaurant probably came into contact with a dump. McDonald's Happy Meals® was the first example of fast food dump and included cheap toys that were usually made of plastic and were not built to endure. Today, many fast food restaurants offer toys that contain characters from popular children's films. Other popular toys of landfills are distributed as prices in schools and carnivals and include plastic animals, cheap plastic jewelry, parachuting and more.
adults have their own version of landfills. Although an adult probably does not collect fast food toys or cheap plastic prices from school, it can accumulate Electronic Gadgets that wear or must bI can quickly replace. These "toys" are usually more harmful to the environment and public health than for children for children, because they often tend to include heavy metals or other toxic materials that can contaminate soil or groundwater unless correctly destroyed.
attempts to stop the influx of landfills include movements to reduce the amount of plastic toys, second -hand shopping, recycling and donating such toys, and buying toys made of sustainable materials. In addition, many parents take care of the possibility of these toys containing toxic materials, such as lead, especially if they are produced in a country with little regulation.