For my essay I'm examining the possibilities of self-improvement versus the betterment of our environment. Leading me to my normative question, "should I recycle?" This morally ambiguous normative question explores a moral dilemma that is unanswered in my life. Using different ethical dilemmas, I will consider possible answers to the normative question. As I child my family always taught me always to recycle. As I got older I have forgotten the importance of recycling. Currently in college, living on my own, I do not find time to recycle properly every time. As I understand more about respecting the environment, I realize the importance of valuing our environment. The moral dilemma between I do not recycle properly every time because it is not a top priority comparable to my health or doing well in school. In the future I hope to change my habits of not recycling. When trying to answer my normative question, there were five moral issues that reinforce both sides of the question. A biocentric toward sentient non-human life moral issue raised by my normative question concerns the recyclable waste killing an abundance of ocean life. One ecocentric moral issue raised by my normative question concerns how the growing effect of plastic waste on our environment. One anthropocentric moral issue raised by my normative question concerns how people working at recycling plants are affected. One egocentric moral issue raised by my normative question concerns the most efficient daily use of time to maintain good academic standing. The last moral issue raised by my question concerns main stability of my health pertaining egocentrism. Out of these singular moral issues I there are three important and conflicting issues to analyze in detail. Moral issues pertaining a "yes  answer, the ocean life affected by recyclable waste and how the lack of recycling is affecting our environment. I will also be explaining in detail another perspective of a "no answer" showing a different egocentric viewpoint. I chose these viewpoints to describe in further detail because it shows two good conflicting sides of the question. One side shows how important it is for us as a society to realize the consequence of not recycling, and what we can do to change our previous mistakes. The other viewpoint shows the importance of using your time wisely to improve yourself as a student. For my first singular moral issue, I am supporting a "no" answer, focusing on if the uncertainty of concentrating more of my time towards improving my education. The category of the moral issue is egocentric and the entity being myself. My interest of entity with moral standing is, focus more time towards school to better my future. Is taking those extra minutes ou