Attention Getter For Recycling Essay
Attention Getter: Did you know that plastic water bottles take near 450 years to decompose, that it takes 1,000 years for a plastic grocery bag to break down, and that an unrecycled aluminum can will be still be an aluminum can in 500 years?
Introduction: Hello again. My name is Laura Sybers and I am a strong supporter of recycling.
Thesis: While recycling might be considered to be “inconvenient” to some, so many common materials can easily be recycled. Although there are plenty of great reasons to recycle, our societies carelessness causes damage to our environment.
(Transition) Over sixty percent of the garbage each person throws into the trash daily could have been recycled.
I. First point: There are many substances that are recyclable …show more content…
There are both advantages and disadvantages to recycling.
1. Advantages are protecting our environment, reduced energy consumption, reduced pollution, reduced global warming, sustainable use of our precious resources and conservation of our natural resources, and reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfills.
2. Disadvantages are that recycling is not always cost effective, durability and quality of recycled items is reduced, unsafe and unhygienic recycling sites, recycling is not wide-spread or universal, and initial setup costs are high for recycling facilities
(Transition) The effects of all of these items being unleashed onto our Earth are destructive not only to the land itself, but to wildlife and their habitats, and also to humanity. Recyclable items are mass produced and used in copious amounts, and then tossed away – many times only being used once. This over production and consumption is taking its toll on the Earth and its entire population.
II. Second point: Failing to recycle causes negative effects on the environment and humanity.
A. Marine animals suffer from our pollution of their waters.
1. Eighty-six percent of all sea turtles have had problems with entanglement or digestion of manmade marine debris such as plastic
Introduction: Hello again. My name is Laura Sybers and I am a strong supporter of recycling.
Thesis: While recycling might be considered to be “inconvenient” to some, so many common materials can easily be recycled. Although there are plenty of great reasons to recycle, our societies carelessness causes damage to our environment.
(Transition) Over sixty percent of the garbage each person throws into the trash daily could have been recycled.
I. First point: There are many substances that are recyclable …show more content…
There are both advantages and disadvantages to recycling.
1. Advantages are protecting our environment, reduced energy consumption, reduced pollution, reduced global warming, sustainable use of our precious resources and conservation of our natural resources, and reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfills.
2. Disadvantages are that recycling is not always cost effective, durability and quality of recycled items is reduced, unsafe and unhygienic recycling sites, recycling is not wide-spread or universal, and initial setup costs are high for recycling facilities
(Transition) The effects of all of these items being unleashed onto our Earth are destructive not only to the land itself, but to wildlife and their habitats, and also to humanity. Recyclable items are mass produced and used in copious amounts, and then tossed away – many times only being used once. This over production and consumption is taking its toll on the Earth and its entire population.
II. Second point: Failing to recycle causes negative effects on the environment and humanity.
A. Marine animals suffer from our pollution of their waters.
1. Eighty-six percent of all sea turtles have had problems with entanglement or digestion of manmade marine debris such as plastic