STUDENT'S NAME: Christopher Williams SUBJECT: Recycling GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade the audience to become more active environmentalists. Specifically, to convince the audience to begin recycling household products and buying recycled goods. I. Introduction: A. Attention-getting device: "DID YOU TAKE OUT THE TRASH?" How many times have our parents asked us that question? Probably more than most of us care to remember. Well, one day many of you will have children
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Waste and Energy Paper Name ENV 100 April 11, 2011 Tamue L. Gibson, M.S. Waste and Energy Paper Pollution introduces contaminants or pollutants into the natural environment that causes unsteadiness and long-term effects to the ecosystem. Waste is slowly polluting the environment and killing humans, plant life, and animals. Waste comes in many forms: solid waste; plastic, hazardous waste material; nuclear waste, and fossil fuel; oil. The world has become a gigantic trashcan. With the expansion
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Stateline Shipping And Transport Company 1. Formulation of the Problem The Stateline Shipping and Transport Company wanted to transport industrial wastes from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposable sites. The problem can be represented in as a Transportation table as shown below. Our problem is to find roots to disposable sites, such that the cost of transportation is minimized.. White water Los Canos Duras Availability (bbl) Kingsport $12.00 $15.00 $17.00 35 Danville $14.00 $9.00 $10
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J Mater Cycles Waste Manag (2005) 7:1–7 DOI 10.1007/s10163-004-0119-9 © Springer-Verlag 2005 SPECIAL FEATURE: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Material Cycles and Waste Management is Asia (2) Chun-Chao Lin · Chun-hsu Lin What substances or objects should be recycled? The recycling legislative experience in Taiwan Received: October 1, 2004 / Accepted: October 10, 2004 Abstract The legislative framework of waste management in Taiwan has never been efficient, mainly due to unclear definitions and
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电子垃圾及其对环境及人体健康的危害 一、介绍 电子垃圾，电子废弃物的俗称，指被废弃不再使用的电子设备，主要包括电冰箱、空调、洗衣机、电视机等家用电器和计算机、手机等通讯电子产品等的淘汰品。 目前，全世界电子产品的生产量正在逐年升高，伴随着电子产品的升级周期不断缩短，新的电子产品不断的取代旧的电子产品，电子垃圾的数量也在逐年增加。 电子垃圾带来的问题十分严重。电子产品中含有大量重金属元素，这些元素将会对环境及人类健康产生非常大的威胁。目前，电子垃圾已经成为市政垃圾重金属和有机污染物的最主要来源。被填埋的电子垃圾将会污染土壤和地下水，它们产生的粉尘也可以污染空气。联合国环境规划署在2005年指出：“每年全世界会产生两千万到五千万吨的电子垃圾，这将会对环境和人类的健康产生严重的威胁。” 为了应对电子垃圾的威胁，世界各国已经开始努力构建处理电子垃圾的体系，成立专门的组织负责进行电子垃圾的回收与处理。在20世纪90年代，欧盟、日本和美国的一些州设立了一些电子垃圾的回收方案。比如德国、瑞士和中国台湾地区设定了法律法规，规定电子产品生产商回收在本国或本地区内的已达使用寿命的电子产品。
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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
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timber, and minerals. 1. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, “In 2009, Americans produced about 243 million tons of waste, or about 4.3 pounds of waste per person per day”, half of which is estimated to be recyclable (“Non”). 2. Facts from Headwater Cooperative Recycling show the effects of waste in our landfills. a. It takes approximately 1 million years for a glass
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international health organization you have been asked to assist to address the management of trash (solid wastes) in this community. Your tasks in this assignment are to: 1. Describe how you would address proper trash management in the community of a developing country and how services may be improved. 2. Discuss the concept of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in the management of trash. X Management of municipal solid waste (MSW) or otherwise known as trash or garbage is an ongoing environmental
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ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come. We can help combat pollution in our own immediate environment if we are aware of the nature and form of pollutions and its effects on us and the environment. A pollutant is a waste material that pollutes air, water or soil. Three factors determine the severity of a pollutant, its chemical nature, the concentration and the persistence. There are two main categories of pollutants. Biodegradable pollutants are materials, such as
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ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come. We can help combat pollution in our own immediate environment if we are aware of the nature and form of pollutions and its effects on us and the environment. A pollutant is a waste material that pollutes air, water or soil. Three factors determine the severity of a pollutant, its chemical nature, the concentration and the persistence. There are two main categories of pollutants. Biodegradable pollutants are materials, such as
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