The Importance of Recycling
Shelby Crocker
Topic: Recycling
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience why recycling is good, how it helps our environment, and how you can start recycling.
I. Introduction:
A. How many of you drink out of some bottled drink every day? Now how many of you just throw it in the trash? This is our problem today, recycling is not being done enough.
B. So what’s the big deal with recycling? It is such an important environmental issue that we have today, and yet it seems as though there isn’t much done about. If you ask a random person on the street about what they think of recycling, nine out of ten times they’ll give you the answer “it’s good for the environment.” My goal today is to help you better understand what recycling is, the process of it, and the benefits of you helping out our environment.
II. Body:
A. Before you know about the importance and benefits of recycling, it is important to understand what recycling is. Recycling refers to the process of transforming waste materials into usable resources. In this process these used materials are sorted and processed to be used as ‘raw materials’ for the production of new products. Recycling means using the core elements of an old product as raw material to manufacture new goods. Some of the most common items that are recycled are plastic, glass, paper, batteries, aluminum etc.
B. The recycling process involves three stages. (Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle: An Easy Household Guide. By Nicky Scott, 2007)
1. In the first stage the old products are collected and processed, where they are sorted, cleaned and made ready for recycling or manufacturing new products.
2. The second stage involves the manufacturing of new products from the raw material obtained by the processing of the old products.
3. Finally, the process ends with the purchasing of recycled goods by the consumers. The more people step forward to buy recycled products the better the success of the recycling process
Topic: Recycling
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience why recycling is good, how it helps our environment, and how you can start recycling.
I. Introduction:
A. How many of you drink out of some bottled drink every day? Now how many of you just throw it in the trash? This is our problem today, recycling is not being done enough.
B. So what’s the big deal with recycling? It is such an important environmental issue that we have today, and yet it seems as though there isn’t much done about. If you ask a random person on the street about what they think of recycling, nine out of ten times they’ll give you the answer “it’s good for the environment.” My goal today is to help you better understand what recycling is, the process of it, and the benefits of you helping out our environment.
II. Body:
A. Before you know about the importance and benefits of recycling, it is important to understand what recycling is. Recycling refers to the process of transforming waste materials into usable resources. In this process these used materials are sorted and processed to be used as ‘raw materials’ for the production of new products. Recycling means using the core elements of an old product as raw material to manufacture new goods. Some of the most common items that are recycled are plastic, glass, paper, batteries, aluminum etc.
B. The recycling process involves three stages. (Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle: An Easy Household Guide. By Nicky Scott, 2007)
1. In the first stage the old products are collected and processed, where they are sorted, cleaned and made ready for recycling or manufacturing new products.
2. The second stage involves the manufacturing of new products from the raw material obtained by the processing of the old products.
3. Finally, the process ends with the purchasing of recycled goods by the consumers. The more people step forward to buy recycled products the better the success of the recycling process
Bibliography: Depalma, Anthony. “In Economic Terms, Recycling Almost Pays.” 29 May 2008. New York Times. Earth 911. “Recycling.” 2008. 20 October 2008. www.earth911.org Nation Recycling Coalition. “Benefits of Recycling.” 2008. 21 October 2008. www.nrc-recycle.org Scott, Nicky. Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle: An Easy Household Guide. Baltimore: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007. Trask, Crissy. It’s Easy Being Green. New York City: Gibbs Smith, 2006.