Ruth First First‚ Ruth Heloise was born 4 May 1925‚ Johannesburg‚ South Africa. She died 17 August 1982‚ Maputo‚ Mozambique. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda First. Julius‚ a furniture manufacturer‚ was born in Latvia and came to South Africa in 1906 at the age of 10. Matilda came to South Africa from Lithuania when she was four years old. They were founder members of the Communist Party of South Africa. Ruth and her brother Ronald grew up in a household‚ in which
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Why Should People Recycle? I am not a big “earth person” but I do believe in recycling because I think recycling is a good thing. In fact I think everyone should recycle to make the earth a better place as a whole. A few good reasons why recycling is a good thing‚ the more people recycle‚ the less room is filled in landfills. Also‚ when people recycle they are reusing materials‚ therefore saving resources. If everyone recycled‚ think of how much more space there would be in landfills
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substances are toxic and take approximately four hundred years to break down‚ or in this case photo-degrade; which is how plastics made from (HDPE) break down. Since they are not biodegradable‚ they remain in the environment and are absorbed in soil or water (Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment‚ 2010). This essay will discuss the various harmful effects of plastic bags‚ and demonstrate the risks that these bags impose on humans‚ animals and the environment. It will also discuss a series of suggested
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9/27/2010 Recycling should be mandatory Producing electricity is the number one cause of air pollution in the United States. Lighting is up to 35% of America’s electricity consumption. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a one hundred-watt bulb for twenty hours‚ a computer for three hours‚ or a TV for two hours. Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. All of these are reasons why recycling should become a mandatory process
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------------------------------------------------- Recycling Energy Conversion Business Plan Executive Summary Objective Nationwide‚ many landfills are closing or exhausting their remaining capacity‚ yet due to environmental restrictions‚ zoning laws‚ and other regulatory and bureaucratic delays‚ pitifully few new landfills are opening to offset the looming space crisis. Meanwhile municipal waste continues to flow in greater volume. Handling the nation’s waste stream has become a major problem
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The Truth About Recycling As the world is slowly evolving added with the rapid expansion of human population and technology‚ we can notice over time these actions have caused a massive issues regarding the amount of waste we create and how we renew‚ or in other words‚ recycle or products for future use. Recycling is very important because it helps to cut back on the amount of landfills we create and are currently using‚ it aids the protection of our environments
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Use Of Technology In Recycling Recycling plays an important role in saving our environment due to the fact that it reduces the demands for waste treatment capacity and lowers waste streams filling up to landfills. Recycling has a tremendously accelerated growth because it is combined with new technologies. The use of technology in recycling devises commonly practical methods that not only help facilitate recycling processes but also improve the efficiency of the recycling that makes it to
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The History Of Paper & Recycling T he history of paper dates back almost 2‚000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then‚ people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone‚ bones‚ cave walls or clay tablets. Paper as we know it today was first made in Lei-Yang‚ China. About 300 years later‚ during the 8th century‚ Muslims (from the region that is now Syria‚ Saudi Arabia and Iraq) learned the Chinese
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Do you think recycling should be mandatory? Recycling should be mandatory because we as a planet have a waste problem. We are the only ones that can fix it‚ and we should be bound by a law to do so. Education‚ Logistics and Marketing Strategies Can Lower Recycling Costs. They have also cut costs by scaling back the frequency of curbside pickups and automating sorting and processing. (www.opala.org/solid_waste/archive/Mandatory_Recycling_) Opposing Argument- By cutting costs there are people
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I think recycling is a good thing because if you take your trash to a landfill it’ll just sit there for years. But if you recycle your cans and things like that you can just reuse them. But I also think recycling is bad because you don’t know where the can came from and you don’t know where it’s been sitting‚ or how long it’s been sitting there. One detail in the paragraph says "The goal is to reduce the amount of waste we add to the county landfill by 90% over the next five years." I think
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