Recycling Reducing Reusing
Recycling, Reusing, and Reducing
Samantha Yerkes
Student
Recycling, Reusing, Reducing The amount of garbage that fills our trash each year is astounding. Did you know that each individual in the United States throws away 4 pounds of trash each day? That is 1,460 pounds each year. Americans are the number one trash offenders in the world. Americans do not dispose of all its garbage properly and efficiently. In the State of Iowa 1.2 Million, tons of materials are recycled in Iowa each year. Six hundred plus communities in Iowa has curbside recycling. Iowa’s citizens, local governments, business and industry have all been proactively working together to protect Iowa’s environment by reducing waste, recycling, and even manufacturing recycled goods and purchasing recycled products. This cooperative effort has built a great recycling industry in the state of Iowa that has created higher wage jobs and businesses. Iowa’s recycling industry generates $2.4 billion in annual industrial output and supports 11,400 jobs in the State. (iowadnr.gov). I have some ideas to make more efficient and effective ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse the garbage that we continue to contaminate our atmosphere and environment in the state of Iowa.
Improving our air quality is a major and important factor in improving our everyday living. Poor air quality is unhealthy for everyone in the state, but especially for those who are children, senior citizens and citizens with respiratory conditions like asthma. With an improved air quality, we will see a significant drop in respiratory illnesses and an improvement in the environment among our wildlife and plant life. In order for Iowa to improve its air quality, we need to come together with communities, businesses, and organizations to provide the education and knowledge and tools necessary to come up with workable solutions to improve our air quality issues.
Recycling is a major part of improving the conditions we live in on an everyday
Samantha Yerkes
Student
Recycling, Reusing, Reducing The amount of garbage that fills our trash each year is astounding. Did you know that each individual in the United States throws away 4 pounds of trash each day? That is 1,460 pounds each year. Americans are the number one trash offenders in the world. Americans do not dispose of all its garbage properly and efficiently. In the State of Iowa 1.2 Million, tons of materials are recycled in Iowa each year. Six hundred plus communities in Iowa has curbside recycling. Iowa’s citizens, local governments, business and industry have all been proactively working together to protect Iowa’s environment by reducing waste, recycling, and even manufacturing recycled goods and purchasing recycled products. This cooperative effort has built a great recycling industry in the state of Iowa that has created higher wage jobs and businesses. Iowa’s recycling industry generates $2.4 billion in annual industrial output and supports 11,400 jobs in the State. (iowadnr.gov). I have some ideas to make more efficient and effective ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse the garbage that we continue to contaminate our atmosphere and environment in the state of Iowa.
Improving our air quality is a major and important factor in improving our everyday living. Poor air quality is unhealthy for everyone in the state, but especially for those who are children, senior citizens and citizens with respiratory conditions like asthma. With an improved air quality, we will see a significant drop in respiratory illnesses and an improvement in the environment among our wildlife and plant life. In order for Iowa to improve its air quality, we need to come together with communities, businesses, and organizations to provide the education and knowledge and tools necessary to come up with workable solutions to improve our air quality issues.
Recycling is a major part of improving the conditions we live in on an everyday