In the passage,”Earth Day”, by Atticot and Manning states,”It takes about 450 years for a plastic beverage bottle to break down in a landfill”. This shows that, if people don’t recycle, it can end up in a landfill, which will cause damage to the Earth. We should celebrate Earth Day because it will help our Earth become cleaner and it will make us live a cleaner life. Amanda Davis states,”For several years, it has been troubling me,” Nelson wrote in a 1962 article,”that the state of the environment is simply a non-issue in politics in our country”. If you don’t recycle, it can harm our planet, and also now we use technology, we should start recycling so we have better things to use.…
Recycling is an important way to keep our environment safe and clean for the children of the future. GOOD!!!…
In “Earth Day” by Atticot and Manning they state, “The recycling rate has increased from less than 10% in 1980 to more than 34% in 2011. Now that has spiked, and some people feel that you don’t have to recycle anymore. However, that is wrong. Davis states, “On March 21, 1971, the UN Secretary-General signed a proclamation establishing Earth Day as an official international holiday.” That was signed in 1971, so it was still so bad that they had to make a holiday to remind people to take care of Earth.…
Recycling can make a huge difference in our environment. There are many instances where we can see the positive effect recycling has had on our earth. Recycling is not a new concept. We have seen an…
Too often people’s values are based on superficial Ideas, as well as unreal goals that our consumer driven society showcases as the ultimate show of success. In the play The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller illustrates a society where ethics are based solely around becoming wealthy and obtaining the American dream, through the use of looks and popularity. The main character Willy Loman spends his entire life in fallacy starving for this success. The Death of a Salesman portrays a specific view of the values, dreams, and goals in a consumer driven society. Much like the play our society is driven by ideals of wealth, popularity, and attractiveness and we are faced with falseness of these ideal daily. Plenty of individuals in society search for this similar success in life and career. They may spend their whole lives trying to fall into the category of being a Success. This may lead them to never knowing what true happiness really feels like, because they are searching for something that was never intended to be and it leads to inevitable unhappiness.…
If people were to recycle it would save so much money because it saves money the factories use to make a whole new product. Also saves money the government and communities use to clean up parks, lakes, beaches, and just regular streets. Not only can you save recycling money but you can also earn money by doing so by turning in cans, bottles, newspapers, electronics, and many other things to recycling programs around you. Another way you can help your environment and benefit yourself are Recycle Banks which offer rewards for points they give for each item you recycle so the more you recycle the more points you get to spend on whatever you want.…
Imagine you and your family going to the beach. You and your kids are so excited to go and swim and get their feet in the cool blue water. But what if when you get there you and your kids are so sad.There's garbage everywhere! Then you see a bird land and falls to the ground from a six pack of plastic around its neck.. Then your whole family's heartbreaks. Nobody likes to be sad or heartbroken that's why everybody should recycle so stuff like that doesn't happen.…
One reason Earth day is very important because it is a time when people actually realize how nasty and disgusting our Earth is. The article “Earth day “ by Atticot and Manning states, “It takes about 450 years to break down plastic beverage bottles in a landfill.” This shows that it takes a very long time for plastic to break down; we still add more and more to our landfills everyday making it harder for the plastic to break down. Our Earth has a hard time breaking down all of our trash and our plastic but it doesn’t have to be that way if we took advantage of Earth day.…
When we recycle, recyclable materials are reprocessed into new products, and as a result the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites reduces. There are over 1,500 landfill sites in the UK, and in 2001, these sites produced a quarter of the UK’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Also what happens to the land we use to dump all our rubbish, eventually it will fill up and we won’t have anywhere else to dump our rubbish at, we will end up with more landfills the more we recycle.…
If you don't recycle paper, more trees will be cut down, reducing the world’s oxygen and increasing the carbon dioxide. If you don't recycle aluminum cans, lots of the world's energy will be used to make aluminum from scratch. Likewise for glass, this is easier to re-use than manufacture.…
Recycle is good for economy, example, American companies rely on recycling programs to provide the raw materials they need to make new products. Recycle is also Creates a jobs and Good for the environment. Recycling requires far less energy, uses fewer natural resources, and keeps waste from piling up in landfills. Recycling offers significant energy savings over manufacturing with virgin materials Manufacturing with recycled aluminum cans uses 95% less…
1) Why recycling is important (the problem) Knowing the importance of recycling should be a must for everybody today. Our every little activity would either help the environment or even destroy it gradually. Being aware of our responsibilities is a step towards saving our planet. Recycling would also reduce the levels of pollution; we would have clean air to breathe.…
Recycling is a major part of our society. It is something that we as American citizens do daily without thinking twice about it. That is one of the main reasons I chose to write this paper on Recycling sustainability. The role of recycling to preserving our environment and to live in a sustainable way is a lot more important than many people think it is. One of the main reasons I chose to write this paper on recycling is because it is a major part of our everyday lives and it is something that most people and businesses do. As many people think they are helping by recycling, (do not get me wrong, it is a major help to our environment) they do not understand that it has major negative effects on the environment. Recycling is said to be the basis for sustainability. At…
In recent decades, there has been an increasing interest in environmental awareness in the United States, as well as in many other countries. People are becoming aware of our current global warming issue, the decreasing numbers of one-use resources, and the great rise in air and water pollution. We have been seeking ways to treat and prevent these problems in our current society. One of the major ways Americans have been trying to combat the issue of decreasing numbers of one-use resources is to use more renewable resources that we are able to recycle. If recycling is available to all of us to use, should it be mandatory that we use renewable resources and recycle them after use? Is it worth the extra time and effort to put our cans in a separate bin for trash collection? Some of the benefits of recycling include: well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, land-fills, and incineration; recycling creates 1.1 million jobs; and thousands of U.S. companies have saved millions of dollars through their voluntary recycling programs. Some of the downfalls to recycling include inconvenience and a sense of false security on the current status of our planet. I believe that the benefits of recycling greatly outweigh the downfalls, but what does this mean on a moral or ethical level? Just because an activity is obviously good to the majority of society doesn’t necessarily mean we should all have to participate.…
Recycling can save the United States vast amount of energy in more than one way. When we do not recycle our goods, they go to landfills. To operate the landfills, it takes a large number of personnel and equipment to keep the operations flowing in a productive manner. It takes vast amounts of expensive fuels to run the proper machinery which is a viable energy source that can be used in other places. The workers also burn energy to operate the equipment and run the landfills. Another way to save energy is when they recycle wood and create particle board and a bio mass for fuel. The wood is already used but is a renewable resource that has many uses. Kim and Song explain “the wood that has been transformed in to bio mass can be used as fire wood to heat a house. The results for both recycling systems showed that the particleboard from wood wastes produces −428 kg CO2-eq compared to particleboard from fresh woods, and the energy production using wood wastes is −154 kg CO2-eq compared to that of the combined heat and power generation process” (Kim, Song 203). When aluminum cans are recycled, it takes 95 percent less energy to produce new cans from the aluminum ore. Regardless of what you are recycling, it takes less energy to reuse the material than to reproduce from the ground up.…