...Specific Purpose: To persuade my class on the importance of recycling and how we can make a stronger and healthier environment. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Recycling: Why Should You Do It? Attention I. How many of you actually recycle? Recycling has been a topic that has been brought up and thought about by many different people, but the problem the question of whether people are taking action or not on this. Recycling will save many different very important aspects of the environment and economy. II. By learning how to recycle we will be able to develop a much stronger and healthier environment. III. I would like to encourage my classmates to realize how important recycling is and why they should do it. If you do not recycle, in the future this could potentially have devastating...
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...Aluminum Recycling How many times have our parents asked us to take the trash out? Probably more than most of us care to remember. Instead of asking if we took out the trash, parents are now beginning to ask if we sorted the trash. The purpose of my Senior Project was to promote awareness to the benefits of recycling. My community service consisted of promoting, researching and participating in the recycling of aluminum cans. There are many financial and environmental benefits to 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...
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...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 that pollutes the air. The effects of not recycling can be very dangerous to the eco system and to the health of all living things. When stationed in Northern Italy, I received a citation from the city for...
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...[pic] Chapter 1 – Current Events | |The costs and benefits of recycling The most dramatic events of mid-2009 are, of course, those connected with the global financial crisis and its disastrous effects on output and unemployment throughout the world. These events lie in the realm of macroeconomics and are covered in the ‘current event’ entries for Chapter 10 through to 15. In this entry we look at the economics of recycling which provide an excellent topical illustration of an important economic principle – the relative size of marginal costs and benefits. Several States are considering extending the present range of recycling opportunities for households and the Productivity Commission has recently published a lengthy report on the issue. Here, using the analysis introduced in Chapter 1, we look at two aspects. First whether kerbside recycling is worth the effort, and second at the operation of container deposit legislation. About 90% of Australian households have access to kerbside recycling collections. They can place their waste in one of two bins. One bin is for general waste, the other for recyclables – typically aluminium cans, glass bottles and containers, paper and cardboard. Many of us make use of the separate bins and some take the task very seriously by, for example, rinsing out bottles before placing them in the recycle bin. Once the material in recycling bins has been collected local authorities incur costs in sorting the material and passing it on to firms...
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...In what ways can airports and airlines improve their recycling efforts? I would say that establishing a successful recycling program and obtaining a commitment from Upper Management should be the first step in the process to bring the airports and airlines into a greener flight. Management support is crucial to develop and sustain an airport recycling program. Before they assemble a team, management must authorize the use of the team’s time and possible changes in job responsibilities and priorities. In addition, the initial stages of a program will require financial investments to purchase the necessary equipment and to train staff. It is important to inform management that there are environmental and potential economic benefits in implementing an airport recycling program. Next they should assemble a green team including individuals from every sector of the airport: terminals, offices, hangars, vendors, airlines, and flight kitchens. The green team plans and implements the recycling program in the initial phase, then maintains and monitors the program once it is in place. The green team may include individuals from inside and outside the airport. Before you develop a recycling plan, understand what waste is generated and collected at your airport by performing a waste assessment. A waste assessment provides quality and quantity data. It also provides a baseline to measure progress in the future. Next, they will need to contract a person to haul the waste away and a person...
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...RETHINKING RECYCLING Recycling can mean many things to different people. Everywhere you turn, there seems to be an ad about energy saving light bulbs, recycling, or green materials (Brown). So the real question is, what is recycling? Growing up in America we are all familiar with the famous EPA phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. The third component Recycling, is a key practice of reusing and reducing items. Recycling takes materials from the waste stream, like used materials or scrap and puts them back into the manufacturing stream, which is the production of new products or materials. In many parts of the world, communities have already embraced the idea of recycling. If used products are disposed of in an appropriate way the process of recycling has been set in motion One of the main reasons we recycle is for preserving our world for future generations. The items we throw out take energy to make, so many of the items are not biodegradable. They take centuries to break down. We produce so much waste that we are running out of space to bury it or dispose of it without contaminating the environment. Preserving our environment is not just some wild conspiracy theory. Almost everything we see around us can be recycled. Each piece of material we recycle makes a positive impact on the environment. Recycling regulations in countries, states, and even local community vary. You need to know what can be recycled. Practically everything in a modern household can be recycled like paper...
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...Recycling – A Call for Change By: Nicole Hurley Our trash has become a growing problem not only for our environment, but for our economy as well. In America in one day, a single person creates 4.6 pounds of trash, which is more than any other country in the world. Only 1.5 pounds of this trash is recycled per person per day. This totals out to us having created 251 million tons of trash in America in one year, and we have only recycled 81 million tons of it. These statistics need to change, and one way we can do this is with mandatory recycling. Mandatory recycling can produce many different benefits, such as improving the economic development of the United States, saving the American family valued dollars, saving our natural resources, and sustaining the environment for future generations. By converting waste into valuable products, recycling creates jobs and adds significant value to the U.S. economy. Recycling is a big industry, and in 2000 it employed over 1.1 million people and provided an annual payroll of $37 billion. This was a great help to our country’s job creation and economic development. Statistics from the National Recycling Coalition show that incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job and land filling 10,000 tons of waste creates six jobs, but the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) shows that recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs (City of Fort Collins, 2008). More job openings would increase the productivity of our economy because people...
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...day many of you will have children and most of the basics of parenting will remain the same. However, one may be changing. Instead of asking if your son or daughter took out the trash, you will probably be asking if he or she sorted the trash. If you are wondering what I mean by sort the trash, listen to these staggering environmental statistics: In one year, the United States produces 160 million tons of garbage and that only includes what is legally dumped. Really, how much in 160M tons? It's 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 air fleet 71 times, and would fill 11 million garbage trucks. According to The Global Ecology Handbook, written by Walter Carson published in 2010. B. Thesis statement: Everyone should make a stronger effort to recycle; it can be beneficial in so many ways. C. Preview of Main Points: Today I’m going to focus on three main points, first: Dangers from not recycling, second: What we can recycle, and lastly: How recycling can save you money. II. Body D. Dangers from not Recycling. 1. Recycling has become necessary because landfills are rapidly being closed and are causing increasingly more damage to the environment. a. Landfills have decreased in number from 20,000 in 1978 to 3,000 in 2010. b. Landfills cause serious air and water...
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...“Waste includes all items that people no longer have any use for, which they either intend to get rid of or have already discarded” (European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production). Some examples of waste can include household rubbish, waste from manufacturing items, old televisions or any other electronic items etc. Thus, all of our daily activities produce waste in some form or the other. The fact is that the more we grow the more waste we will produce; there is a direct relationship between the increase in standard of living and the amount of waste that is produced to sustain this growth. “Waste is a part of the economy – it is a by-product of all 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...
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...Have you ever walked around a school campus just minutes after the lunch break ended? Well if you have, you most likely would have observed the absurd amount of wasted food spilling out of trash cans and scattered around the concrete floors. It makes you realize how much food we waste daily, and how preventable that is. The waste we see has so much potential to be dispersed and organized into composting and recycling bins. With that in mind, it is mandatory that Mills High School should be required to have composting and more recycling bins around campus, this would be beneficial to our planet, as well as the upcoming generations. The benefits range from most importantly controlling climate change to reducing the amount of waste around campus...
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...saving earth or going green, over the past few years. The main purpose is to preserve earth’s natural raw resources because we are running out of natural resources including gas, oil, and coal. There are energy efficient products being promoted such as battery operated cars, appliances, light bulbs and even homes. The problem is many energy efficient items are so expensive, that not everyone can afford to pay for an energy efficient car or an energy efficient home, but there are still many ways to help save the planet earth. Think about what is in that trash bag before you throw it away. Saving the trash could possibly mean saving the earth. If consumers could do something with the trash they discard the manufacturer would not have to use raw natural materials to make products. The average person generates four pounds of trash per day (Brown Par 2 ). If consumers could recycle some of that trash they could reduce landfills. Landfills are a place where your discarded trash goes; it is then buried. Not only are landfills not good for the environment, but they are not good for the wildlife. Another good reason for recycling is it saves energy because the big companies do not have to burn as much energy to produce something new. By using recycled materials it cuts down on the energy consumption as well as the cost for consumers. That means more money in everyone’s pocket. Consumers can also save a lot money recycling because instead of buying something new they can just turn...
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...substantial amount of gold obtained from recycling old phones and other electonics [Credit: http://nokiarevolution.com] With rapid revolutions in technology in this digital age, people are quick to change their phones to the latest handsets. But few people realise that recycling their old phones is imperative, and the shocking potential benefits it may bring. A recent study has found a surprising new way to extract the maximum amount of gold from old Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)---using...
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...1. Goal I would like to reduce used oil pollution and dumping in Western Riverside County through community outreach and education. The decision to choose this as my goal for this action paper came from what I do at work. I work for the Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG) and one of my main duties is to manage the Used Oil grant for the city of Riverside and the county of Riverside Another reason that I chose this topic is because I can talk about the implementation of some of our programs and how successful they’ve been in reaching the community. II. Discussion Petroleum oil, or “Black Gold” as some call it, is one of the most widely used natural resources in our world. Being that there are many uses for this resource, the demand for it continues to grow as the world continues to develop with third world countries finally becoming more progressive. With the demand of oil increasing by the year, the result will also be in an increase in the price of oil as well as organizations such as the Organization for the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continually adjusts the prices of oil to meet the demand. There is a question on how accurate they’re in this adjusting, but unfortunately the United States has no say in what the prices will be due to our ever increasing demand and really no resources in the states to suffice. The US is stuck on exporting oil from OPEC nations because without their supplementing oil, our society as a whole would not be able...
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...Parktopia’s First Recycling Program Supply Chain Department Parktopia Executive Summary Situation In recent years, St. George has been plagued with a landfill scarcity crisis. Growing environmental negligence has caused this scarcity. Parktopia produces 15% of all total waste in St. George, making us the largest waste producer in the area. We need to take responsibility and help solve our city’s landfill scarcity problem. Methodology We used a framework called MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive). MECE allows us to find problems that are relevant towards our situation. The methodology allowed us to identify three areas of research that influence the solution that solves our problem; these three spheres of research are cost, community, and competition. Research The first sphere of research is about cost. We identified that the largest increasing cost in Parktopia is the trash disposal cost. The second sphere of research, which dealt with community, identified that our community is burdened by the increasing trash disposal cost and landfill scarcity. The last sphere of research identified that recycling programs are helping our competition reduce costs. Solution The solution that solves all three spheres of research is a recycling program. Our recycling program includes 100 plastic and 100 paper containers, along with formal employee training. The proposed start date is January 1, 2015. Introduction Since 1954, Parktopia...
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...approach and change such lifestyles. So how can we, as individuals, improve the environment? Why When talking about environment related issues, most people just don’t care; they are only doing enough to get by for themselves. The only concerns they have are paying their bills on time, taking care of their family, keeping their job, and being happy. People are contemplating the fact that they are just one person, and the changes they make won’t make a difference so why should it matter. (Savage) If this mind set of people changes then that one person will turn it to hundreds and thousands of people and differences in the environment will start to be seen. There are multiple different reasons on why you should care about the environment and what impacts it. Approximately 40% of deaths globally are cause by pollution, and the number of humans that are diagnosed with diseases from pollution are increasing. The more we are polluting our air, water, and soil, and degrading our environment the more the population is hurting. (Cornell) This chart shows deaths due to cardiovascular disease. This chart shows deaths attributable to solid fuel use. Where do pollutants come from? A clean environment is...
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