...everyone knows our environment is in danger. One of the most serious threats is the massive amount of waste we put into the air, water, and ground every year. All across the world are thousands of places that have been, and continue to be, polluted by toxic waste, radioactive waste and just plain garbage. It is imperative that we are aware of all the things that we can do to help our environment by diminishing the amount of trash and garbage that we produce each year. One easy way of doing that is by a method called recycling. Many might not know the importance of recycling and what it can do to our environment. While recycling has become part of the daily routine for many people, the full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the drain on the limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important which will be discussed in this paper. Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods quickly and cheaply, so virtually everyone practiced recycling in some form. However, large-scale recycling programs were very rare -- households predominantly practiced recycling. The mass production of the industrial age is, in many ways, the very reason we need to worry about large-scale recycling. When products...
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...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. What is good and beneficial in one aspect of the world may be harmful and insufficient in another...
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...in their own environment, their own carbon blueprint by modifying individual behaviors. The issue A significant area of behavior modification regarding the environment is the use of plastic bottles. The increase over the last several decades of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for bottled water is staggering. The reduction of the use of PET bottles will play a significant role in how an individual can change our environment. One of the most significant challenges of plastic bottles is estimated that it requires over 700 years for plastic to decompose. Pollution caused by plastic is a world-wide problem. Researchers estimate that there is an ever increasing "garbage patch" of plastic twice the size of the state of Texas moving in the North Pacific Ocean. Humans, ecosystems, and wildlife are seriously challenged by debris from plastic. Disposable plastic water bottles for bottled water are made out of oil which is a finite natural resource known as Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). PET bottles require energy to manufacture and transport. The amount of oil used to produce water bottles each year which equates to 17 million barrels of oil is the same amount of oil that would fuel over 1,000,000 cars for a year (Palliser, 2010). * Strategies for promoting positive environmental behavior * The use simple strategies of reducing, reusing and recycling can play a major impact on the reduction of plastic bottles and their impact upon the environment. There are...
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...Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that participating in recycling is important in the future of our environment. Central Idea: We as a society have the capability to change the future of our environment. Introduction I. After spending a hot day running errands you think, I could really use something to quench my thirst. A. You may grab a can of soda or a bottle of water and 10 or 15 minutes later on the way past the trash you toss it in. B. Many of us do this on a daily basis without even thinking about where all that trash goes. II. We bag up the garbage, sit it on the curb, and the trash man comes to haul it all off to the landfill. A. According to the U.S. National Park Service the soda can you throw away can take 80-200 years to degrade in the landfill, or 450 years for a plastic bottle (Garbage). B. If we recycle that one can we can save “enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or run your television for three hours”(Cummings). III. We as consumers have the capability of altering our habits and influencing the outcome of our planet for years to come. Transition: I know many of us have thought about recycling, but we don’t take the initiative to do it consistently. Body I. I’d like to first have everyone consider the effects not recycling may have on our environment. A. With recycling we can conserve natural resources such as water, timber, and minerals. 1. According...
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...U2IP: The Benefits of Recycling AIU Online Outline I. Is recycling beneficial? Yes. Recycling is the process of turning products that are considered to be waste into valuable resources. This process will reduce the amount of waste that goes into our land. Recycling will promote environmental awareness and provide more job opportunities. A. Recycling has been around for centuries. In Roman times bronze items were melted down for perpetual use. It wasn’t until the first Earth Day in 1970 that people really started to pay attention. Because of the mass modern era, disposable goods have created the necessity for a greater amount of landfills. In 1980, people in the U.S sent almost 150 million tons of garbage to the landfills each year. Even though recycling diverted 32% of the waste, 68% still ended up in landfills due to electronics being disposed of. Today, we now have ways to recycle those electronics. (DoSomething.org) B. The environmental, political, and economical situations would all benefit from the recycling industry. II. Recycling will help keep the environment safe and clean from dangerous pollutions. A. Landfills are where all our waste goes. Dangerous gases and pollution comes from these landfills and can contaminate our land and natural water sources. B. With less need for landfills there would be more land and less worry for pollution. C. By recycling, we would be able to prevent global warming. III. Raising...
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...everyone knows our environment is in danger. One of the most serious threats is the massive amount of waste we put into the air, water, and ground every year. All across the world are thousands of places that have been, and continue to be, polluted by toxic waste, radioactive waste and just plain garbage. It is imperative that we are aware of all the things that we can do to help our environment by diminishing the amount of trash and garbage that we produce each year. One easy way of doing that is by a method called recycling. Many might not know the importance of recycling and what it can do to our environment. While recycling has become part of the daily routine for many people, the full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the drain on the limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important which will be discussed in this paper. Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods quickly and cheaply, so virtually everyone practiced recycling in some form. However, large-scale recycling programs were very rare -- households predominantly practiced recycling. The mass production of the industrial age is, in many ways, the very reason we need to worry about large-scale recycling. When products...
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...Sustainability of Recycling Vincent R. Bond DeVry University English 135 January 28, 2013 For years recycling has been going on and still today there has been no true reduction of the amount of waste that people produce throughout the years. Even though waste materials are recycled into new products there are several negative effects also for both consumers and the environment. Every neighborhood that you drive through now have more than one garbage can, one for regular garbage and one for recycling and most times there is a fee to the county or an Home Owners Association(HOA) that the American homeowner must pay whether they are recycling or not. According to reporter John Tierney, who wrote a story for New York Times magazine, “Recycling is Garbage”. With this said the sustainability of recycling is economically unfeasible due to the expense and the damage done to the environment. The expense of collecting and recycling materials are very high compared to just disposing of it as garbage. According to author Harvey Black of the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal, in San Jose, California “it costs $28 per ton to landfill waste compared with $147 a ton to recycle” (Black 1006). Since there are no machines that can easily handle recycling the time and money spent recycling is higher than actually disposing of waste. When looking at the price to produce material from recycled waste also shows that it cost the tax payers more money for this new product. When...
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...Recycling Recycling is a commonly heard term specially in science classes, it means to dispose of materials the correct way so it can be reused. Although it is commonly well known many people ignore the fact that in order for it to work they actually need to regularly participate in the recycling process by disposing of their waste the correct way. If every were to do this the term “recycle” would not be seen as the cli·ché term we hear in science class but as a process that is going to help our environment in the long run. There is not only one specific way recycling is beneficial for the environment, we could go different ways with this topic so I am going to address the most important ways recycling helps the environment. Such as landfill reduction, pollution, energy consumption reduction, and also it can be cost efficient for companies or manufacturers. Landfills are made to hold up all the waste us, humans, produce and all these landfills contain harmful chemicals and or substance that are dangerous not only for us but for the environment in which we live in. All these items such as plastics take thousands of years to decompose naturally and leave behind a big ecological footprint behind. Instead of dumping old items we do not use anymore we should be focused on seeing how that item can be reused either by using it for something else or simply by taking it to a recycling plant so they can break it apart and reuse parts and bits of it. The more waste we prevent...
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...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 air pollution (Weber, paragraph 8). God commands Christians...
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...economic activity undertaken by businesses, governments and households (DEFRA report).” The European Union produces around 1.8 billion tonnes of waste each year which amount to about 3.5 tonnes per person (European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production). The United Kingdom on its own produces around 220 million tonnes of waste every year. Managing all of this waste is a monumental task which governments have to undertake. With such vast quantities of waste being produced each year it is extremely important that it be managed in a way that will not harm the health of humans or the environment in which we live in. Waste has a considerable impact on the environment. The environment has the ability to transform waste over time into nutrients that can be used again. However, with the increase in our economic activity this natural assimilative capacity of the environment will be exceeded if we do not control the amount of waste that we produce or take measures to manage it. Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal, managing and monitoring of waste materials. The management of non-hazardous residential and institutional waste is usually the responsibility...
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...ENGL 101 Christian’s Caring For the Environment Christianity passionately teaches believers that God is the creator of all things. It is essential that Christians take the power given to them by God, to make a difference in the preservation, and the restoration of the environment. The book of Genesis provides us with environmental insight of the creation of the Earth in which God calls it “good.” (Genesis 1:10) Adam and Eve were instructed by God to maintain the garden of Eden as the care takers. From the beginning we see that God intended for Christians to be good stewards over what He graciously has given them. One way to demonstrate obedience to God, is to value the things He values. In demonstrating appreciation for the world we live in we are called to be accountable for it as imitators of Christ. The Bible says, “Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.” Some ways to consider making changes for the better of the environment would be recycling, properly disposing personal waste, and using natural resources such as using solar or wind energy. Christians honor God in the way they live, and in doing so it is necessary to consider the world they live in. Whether you are a new believer, or have been living for Christ for years the environmental interest should be a concern for all Christians. The challenge is to change the way of thinking just as it must be done to effectively live like the example Jesus Christ...
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...generation. Improper of waste management will giving effects to environmental. For the environmental aspect, it causes air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, visual pollution, noise pollution, odour pollution and explosion hazard (Ramachandra, 2006). Besides that, disposing the rubbish will waste the potential raw materials and energy that used in making the items. Recycling is one of the best ways to reduce the resources consumed. Ramachandra (2006) explains that Recycling is perhaps the most widely recognised form of source reduction involving the process of separating, collecting, processing, marketing and ultimately using a material that would have otherwise been discarded. This form of source reduction, i.e., recycling, is similar to other forms, in that it lessens reliance on landfills and incinerators, protect human health and the environment by removing harmful substances from the waste stream and conserves natural resources by reducing the demand for raw materials. (p....
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...Action(S) Should Christians Take Regarding The Environment And Its Preser Abstract Christian are required by God's law to obey the laws of man. Furthermore, the United States Government has Federal and State organization that will help protect our environment. There are many ways that Christian can protect the earth's environment and restore the earth national resources. For an example, Christians could recycle many natural resources; buy vehicles that are more efficient and not being wasteful is all very important. Christians cannot be disillusioned that everyone thinks the same way and there viewpoint are the same. There are many non-Christians that belief that there is a need protect the earth and we will have endless supplies of natural resources. Finally, Christians realize that efforts to protect the earth may not be enough, so we must prepare and plan to restore natural resources. As Christian followers of God, we must educate others about conserving the earth's natural resources. What Specific Action(S) Should Christians Take Regarding The Environment And Its Preservation Or Restoration? Could you imagine Jesus Christ driving a car that is not environmental friendly? According to the Christian faith, Jesus Christ was the only perfect person that ever lived on the earth that was perfect. Therefore, Christians understand that to be Christ like, it would mean Christian would have to preserve the environment and if necessary contribute to the restoration...
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...the world’s garbage, states the Recycling Coalition of Utah. Recycling is defined as the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. Recycling can make such a big impact on the environment. According to BYU Idaho University Operations, if every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. They also state that Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which get thrown away! People should seriously start recycling because it reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills, conserves natural resources, and helps sustain the environment for future generations. On one hand, many people...
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... Neither one is good for us or for the environment. Across the nation, landfills are filling up, bigger cities are feeling the effects of pollution and contamination of water problems are harming communities. In Pueblo, Colorado this situation is even worse. A few years back, the city announced that they would remove all the bins that were placed out for recycling due to lack of funding. So there went the good intention of getting our citizens to recycle and help out the environment. The programs here remain difficult, expensive, time consuming or sometimes just not worth the hassle. Something needs to happen to get Pueblo and other cities on track with recycling. Recycling benefits everybody in the economy and it’s good for the environment. Recycling adds value to materials, contributing to a growing labor force including materials sorters, dispatchers, truck drivers, brokers, sales representatives, process engineers, and chemists. These jobs usually pay above the average national wage, and many are in inner city urban areas where job creation is vital. Not to mention, recycled products are usually more budget friendly than non-recycled. The effects of not recycling are proven to be harmful. Excessive amounts of garbage developing in landfills and the smell can be toxic, sometimes even deadly. Polluting in the water leaving people with nothing to drink. Dwindling resources that may soon disappear and skyrocket prices. Burning garbage instead of recycling causes toxic gas...
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