...two million automobiles, enough wood to construct a million homes, enough paper to publish all the daily newspapers in the country, enough aluminum to rebuild the entire American air fleet 71 times, and would fill 11 million garbage trucks Body I. Recycling, although it may seem to you that everyone recycles, we don't! People feel it is time consuming and a hassle. However, it is actually very easy and necessary. A. Recycling has become necessary because landfills are rapidly being closed and are causing increasingly more damage to the environment. 1. Landfills have decreased in number from 20,000 in 1978 to 3,000 in 1990. 2. Landfills cause serious air and water pollution. a. A large landfill near Miami, FL has polluted a nearby lake to the extent that fish no longer live there. b. Decomposition of waste in landfills releases methane which can kill vegetation as well as increase the spread of diseases such as hepititis. 3. To manage the growing volume of solid waste it is necessary to turn to alternative methods such as recycling. B. Americans do not do their share in recycling. 1. Recycling saves energy and reduces pollution. However, the United States recycles only about 11 percent...
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...[pic] How to Recycle as a Liver Out When is my collection? To find out when your rubbish and recycling is collected in your area please visit www.durham.gov.uk and use the ‘My Durham’ section with your house number and postcode. Rubbish and recycling should not be put out earlier than 6.00pm on the evening before collection and no later than 7.00am on the morning of collection and brought back to your property the same day. Across the Durham City area there are a variety of recycling containers. Depending on where you live, you will have access to one of the following: What can I place in my recycling bin or bag? [ Food tins and drink cans: All steel and aluminum food and drink cans; biscuit and sweet tins; aerosol cans including deodorant; furniture polish and hairspray. (Please do not include cutlery, pots and pans or other metal objects). Plastics: All plastic bottles including pop, milk and water bottles; washing up and laundry liquids, shampoo and cooking oil; yogurt, butter, fruit and vegetable containers and carrier bags (Please do not include hard plastic containers, children’s toys, ready meal food trays, bubble wrap or polystyrene). Paper and cardboard: Paper includes newspapers, magazines, junk mail, brochures, envelopes, wrapping paper (no foil based paper) and telephone directories including yellow pages; all types of cardboard including cereal...
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...English 101-B31 | English Christians have a moral responsibility to recycle Adam Moon October 9, 2014 Respectfully submitted to: Professor Stella Osborne Abstract Christians should do their part to save the environment by recycling. Recycling is good for the environment and saves waste. People argue that recycling is difficult and time consuming. Recycling is easy and takes little time or energy. God commands Christians to take care of the earth and resources. Keywords: recycling, environment, earth, resources. Introduction Recycling is good for the environment. It keeps wasteful products out of landfills. If something can be reused or recycled, it should be. There is really no good reason for anyone not to recycle. Everyone should recycle, including Christians. People need to think about tomorrow and recycle today. Pollution is a threat to our society and our future. Christians are called to take care of mother earth or they will be punished. Today, recycling is easy. People can set their recyclables out with trash for pickup, or take them to a drop off center. There are also many drop off centers located around towns. Recycling reduces pollution Pollution is detrimental to our environment and the earth. Less pollution is generated when items are recycled, than when they are first manufactured. Water and air pollution are decreased by recycling paper. Cars made from recycled aluminum are lighter, get better gas mileage, and lessen...
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...Praise be to Almighty Allah, the cherisher and sustainer of the world. May peace be upon Muhammad Sallah Alaihi Wassalam, the seal of prophets. My prayers are also for his companions. Respected judges, Distinguished principal, Teachers, parents and my dear friends. Assalaam Alaikum and a very good morning/afternoon to you all Friends did you ever wonder why our school gives us books used by previous students. Sometimes we hear our colleagues say that they dislike the old books. But friends, feel proud today that you are using an old book. Well, Today I am going to talk about one of the best Go Green catch phrases Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, which is the famous 3R’s of the environment. According to Lady Bird Johnson “The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.” Surely, the oxygen we breathe in is derived free of cost from the surrounding trees. But very few people look at trees as a resource and there is rampant tree cutting going on everywhere which leads to the problem of global warming. Today, the world produces 1.3 billion tonnes of garbage a year. That’s more trash per minute than the weight of 7 fully loaded Boeing 747s! By 2025, the world’s garbage output is set to rise to 2.2 billion tonnes a year. Uncollected solid waste is often the leading contributor to local flooding, air and water pollution, and can have an...
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...Recycle plastic programs * The plastic pollution Plastic is one of the few new chemical materials which pose environmental problem. Polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene is largely used in the manufacture of plastics. Synthetic polymers are easily molded into complex shapes, have high chemical resistance, and are more or less elastic. Some can be formed into fibers or thin transparent films. These properties have made them popular in many durable or disposable goods and for packaging materials. These materials have molecular weight ranging from several thousands to 1,50,000. Excessive molecular size seems to be mainly responsible for the resistance of these chemicals to biodegradation and their persistence in soil environment for a long time. Plastic in the environment is regarded to be more an aesthetic nuisance than a hazard, since the material is biologically quite inert. The plastic industry in the US alone is $ 50 billion per year and is obviously a tempting market for biotechnology goral enterprises. Biotechnological processes are being developed as an alternative to existing route or to get new biodegradable biopolymers . 20% of solid municipal wastes in US is plastic. Non-degradable plastics accumulate at the rate of 25 million tones per year. According to an estimate more than 100 million tones of plastic is produced every year all over the world. In India it is only 2 million tones. In India use of plastic is 2 kg per person per year while in European...
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...recycling aluminum and aluminum can be easily collected and reused over and over again. People need to be aware of what is happening in the environment and also be educated on what they can do to help. We need to recycle aluminum because it saves natural resources, time, money, and energy. In one year, the United States produces 160 million tons of garbage, this is enough metal to build two million automobiles, enough wood to construct a million homes, enough paper to publish all the daily newspapers in the country, enough aluminum to rebuild the entire American fleet 71 times, and would fill 11 million garbage trucks. Landfills are quickly increasing in number and size. One of the advantages of recycling is that it helps keep extra waste out of our landfills and incinerators. The sum of existing landfills is increasing because of the lack of care to help the environment. People are lazy and they cannot understand the effects of not recycling. Landfills take up space and they waste the taxpayer's dollars. In an average adult's lifetime, he or she leaves behind 90,000 lbs. of trash for the next generation and approximately 3/5 could have been recycled. Almost everything in a trash bag can be reclaimed through recycling It is easy to recycle most household products and it will only take a little of your time. The average American family could 150 six...
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...* Type 1 Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET, PETE) Uses: Soft drink, water and salad dressing bottles; peanut butter, and jam jars. * Type 2 High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Uses: Water pipes; Hula-Hoop (children’s game) rings; milk, juice, and water bottles; the occasional shampoo / toiletry bottle. * Type 3 Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Uses: Juice bottles; cling films; PVC piping. * Type 4 Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Frozen food bags; squeezable bottles, e.g. honey, mustard; cling films; flexible container lids. * Type 5 Polypropylene (PP) Uses: Reusable microwaveable ware; kitchenware; yogurt containers; margarine tubs; microwaveable disposable take-away containers; disposable cups; Legos, and plates. * Type 6 Polystyrene (PS) Uses: Egg cartons; packing peanuts; disposable cups, plates, trays, and cutlery; disposable take-away containers. * Type 7 Other (often polycarbonate or ABS) Uses: Beverage bottles; baby milk bottles; electronic casing. The Process of Recycling Plastics There are three prevalent techniques used in the process of recycling plastics. These techniques vary because of the complexity involved in making and recycling plastics. * Monomer Recycling The monomer recycling is the most used technique. The process takes advantage of the prior categorization and sorting of plastic products. Once the plastics are separated by type, different chemicals are used to break the plastic down to its base compounds, eventually reaching...
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...Americans seems to have fallen under the spell over another fad trend. No longer do people see the lone garage bin by the curb of neighborhood households without seeing the recycling bin within arms reach. All over the United States, when it's time to take out the garbage, millions of people take out carefully sorted bundles of newspapers and cardboard, bags of aluminum and steel cans, and plastic containers--all destined for recycling. It has become a routine of our daily lifestyle, for most, to throw away empty soda bottles or cardboard cereal boxes directly into the recycling bin instead of the garbage pale. While it may seem to some that recycling is beneficial to the environment, it is actually true that recycling does exactly the opposite in cleansing the world of unwanted debris. One cannot disregard that recycling has made incredible innovations in disposing and reusing recyclable materials all over the world. But, today’s recycling is not effective and efficient enough to be given “garbage” and to come out with recycled materials without negative effects to the environment or rise in cost to the general tax payers. The general public should be aware of the environmental effects of recycling, and to challenge the image, shared by the public, industry, media and government, of recycling as the “good guy”; in turn distracting people from the truth of environmental protection and reduced consumption. The health of the environment cannot be seen as a whole, but as in parts...
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...RECYCLING Introduction How much effort do you put into recycling? Do you and your family have a way to separate what can be recycled from what goes to the landfill? If you don’t then you have to make some changes. With the increasing human population the needs for the people also increases. But the point of concern is that are there enough natural resources to service all your needs. What if these resources finish, this is one thing we need to ponder upon. We need to start recycling waste to converse our natural resources. Recycling is simply the process of reusing the items from which utility can still be derived. It is important to recycle waste so that you can at least converse some of our natural resources for our generations to come.Recycling is a rewarding experience and it can really show you just how much you can save. Waste can be reduced by about 80% for the average household or business if effective recycling efforts are in place. Body A. Recycling protects the environment Recycling is important for the simple reason that it helps eliminate waste which is having a negative effect on our natural environment.This is where recycling process comes in. This sounds relatively simple but can contribute enormously to preserving the environment for the future and for our future generations. One being that less of our rubbish ends up in landfills and littered around the streets which ultimately ends up in the ocean. This prevents animals from eating and...
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...program that will hopefully carry through to the homes of our students. Recycling and the importance of protecting our environment should be mandatory curriculum at the elementary school level (all six years) as well as recycling trash cans in every classroom. One afternoon a week I volunteer in the county special needs classroom at North Shore Elementary working with children who have autism and down syndrome. I’ve had two main classroom projects this year. The first has been having recycling trash cans in the classroom, teaching the kids what recycling is and why it’s important. My second project is building and planting a classroom garden. The City of Big Bear Lake and the County of San Bernardino need to emphasize the need to recycle, make getting the green trash cans easier and give an incentive for using them. New and higher taxes are constantly being imposed and our utility rates keep going up, giving something back...
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...* Recycling everything that you can recycle! This may mean you have to spend an extra five minutes sorting out what is rubbish and what is recyclable. This may mean a different bag to put your recyclables in. * Recycle your unwanted gadgets. There are websites that recycle your mobile-phone and you can even receive money for doing so! * You can recycle your used printer ink cartridges. So many used ink cartridges are disposed of by households and business every day and these are unnecessary additions to landfill waste. They can also leak and cause serious environmental consequences through contamination. * We can recycle almost everything these days: plastics, glass, aluminum, other metals, clothes, newspapers, magazines, cardboard, even your organic peelings from your vegetables can go on a compost heap. * Use online auction sites to sell unwanted items or donate useful items to charity shops and collections. * Buy recycled products. Recycled paper, products that use recycled packaging and plastics. Recycled electrical goods, clothes from charity shops. * Re-use your plastic shopping bags until you can use them no more...and then try and recycle them! Many supermarkets have introduced techniques where you can recycle your plastic bags. * Better still don't use plastic bags, buy a rucksack or other bag to use for your shopping. * Use rechargeable batteries and electronic items. When you are recharging these items do not leave them...
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...recycle Environmental Awareness In society today more and more people are becoming conscious of environmental issues such as recycling. People recycle everything from paper to computer hardware. For this assignment I examine two articles both with similarities and differences on the actual benefits of recycling on the environment. .According to an article in the National Geographic, (Zeller.Jr., 2008, para. 1). “Consider the true cost of a product over its entire life—from harvesting the raw materials to creating, consuming, and disposing of it—and the scale tips dramatically in recycling’s favor”. The article in National Geographic uses data from recent studies to prove recycling is better for the environment because it keeps trash from going into landfills where it sits buried or burns and emits toxic fumes into the environment. Even though it cost recycling companies more money to recycle one’s trash than to make any financial profits, and the large trucks that pick up the recyclables will emit carbon dioxide and require more consumption of energy, it still makes more sense to recycle considering all the word’s trash. “The short answer is: Yes” (Zeller.Jr., 2008, para. 1). An interesting point in this article is that the United States is behind on making production companies responsible in sharing the costs for the recycling burden “extended producer responsibility,” such as in Europe known as The Packaging Waste Directive of 1994. In Europe production companies...
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...1.0 Executive summary Bemis Company known as eco bags are produced form banner wasted and not used also known as earth-friendly banner since 2010. Eco bags are unique and the bags are functional to care what you’re bought that can be used many times and do not harm the environment because it is environmentally friendly. Eco bags can make consumer care about the environment, especially to awareness about to reduce pollution such as air pollution and water pollution when we burned or throw away that unused banner. Bemis Company is a leading manufacturer in Malaysia Eco Bags was located at Jalan Putra Square 6, 25200, Kuantan, Pahang. Bemis Company was initially founded by 5 best friend since childhood, Jeniffer as CEO, Mun Yee as operation department manager, JR Yee as secretary, Atikah and Maizura as marketing manager. With have our own slogan with is “ Lead The Scene To Keep Green” The brand will be launched at the same time we want to make sure create brand awareness eco bags among potential customer and distribution partners the future of advertising in various media. Our product will be served a variety of eco bags such as tote bags, lunch box bags, toiletries bags, canvas bags and pencil case. Our objective in Bemis Company is to combine quality, functional, durable eco bags with social and environmental awareness to ensure the pollution on the earth can be reduced. We in Bemis Company has ability to provide requirement (product) of all businesses that require our products...
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...Recycle Your Cell Phone It was great to see all of the different things you can do to recycle your old technology once you are done with it. In the past I have done a few of these things with my Cell Phone. But I have never donated one to charity; I think that is a great idea. The next phone I get rid of I will take to charity. If you don’t do any of these things with you old phone and laptops they are going to be wasted. It just wouldn’t make sense to throw away important technology that could be recycled for use in something else. The worst part about it is thinking about the people you are not helping when you throw that stuff away. There are people out there that desperately need that recycled technology to have a phone or have a computer. If everyone would think about that I think they would recycle this stuff more often. Big companies should start programs to make sure that all of their technology is donated to groups that give it away, or make it back into useful technology. They should create a group that has directors and everything that could overlook the operations of it, and make sure that nothing is being wasted. Big companies are always upgrading their technology, which leaves a lot of old technology that won’t be used anymore. If these groups were put in place I think it could make a huge impact on the people that depend on this recycled technology. The government could play a huge role in trying to get everyone to start recycling their old technology. I think...
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...Running head: The 3 R’s Reuse, Reduce & Recycle Monica Wingate Kaplan University CM 220 Section 51 Professor Anthony Russo January 24, 2012 Reuse, Reduce & Recycle An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space or right about 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.(“A Recycling Revolution”, 2005) To see change we must start small and aim big. It only takes one person to start a trend. What if that tend is recycling? Recycling should be a trend that lasts through the decades. If we don’t start now then there wont be anything left for our future generations. All businesses and communities nationwide should be given the opportunity for recycling as it will increase monetary savings, create a greener environment and create less waste. Offering curbside recycling to businesses and homeowners can increase their monetary savings drastically. These programs can reduce utility bills, taxes and money spent on fuel. The U.s. is the #1 trash producing country in the world. The U.s. makes up 5% of the worlds population. With each person producing over 1,600 pounds of trash per year that means this country alone produces 40% of the worlds garbage. The United States produces 251 million tons of garbage annually and only recycles about 82 million tons of this. (Green Scene, n.d.)iCurbside recycling programs cost less than having centralized drop off...
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