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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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    Language Arts 10 Period 7 Recycling should be Mandatory for Everyone Would you like to live in a filthy atmosphere or do you prefer to breathe fresh air? You decide. Recycling is the act of collecting‚ separating and recreating used materials into new products. Not everyone recycles for various reasons‚ either they are too lazy or they just don’t care about the environment. “United States recycles about thirty-two percent of its waste today” ("Recycling Statistics”). Recycling should be enforced as

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    Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke‚ pre-consumer waste‚ and post-consumer waste.[1] Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper‚ and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is material which left the paper mill but was discarded before it was ready for consumer use. Post-consumer waste

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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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    In the article‚ “Recycling Is Not Garbage” environmentally Defense fund scientist Richard A. Denison and economic analyst John F. Ruston rebut a series of myths that they say have been promoted by industrial opponents in an effort to undermine the environmentally valuable and successful recycling movement. One of them is that recycling is not necessary because landfilling trash is environmentally safe. But this statement is

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    Importance of Recycling Have you ever wonder what can you do about the bottles and cans you find around you? People that doesn?t care about the world being clean is littering the place. It makes things very difficult to put up for. Recycling cans and bottles can help save the earth form waste and trash buildup and can make new things. I think that recycling should be mandatory and there should be recycling cans in various locations at school and everywhere else. One reason is that recycling can help

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    Biology Project Title: Kitchen Waste Recycling Group leader: Content P.3 – 4 Introduction P.5 Background P.6 Data P.7 Literature review P.8 – 11 Method P.12 – 13 Result P.14 Discussion P.15 Conclusion P.16-18 Reflection P.19 Reference P.20 Group Member List P.21 The End Introduction Firstly‚ we should define what kitchen waste is. Kitchen waste refers to the organic waste produced by food

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    Why Is Recycling Bad

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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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    harms which come with not recycling styrofoam. One of the main harms includes the land the piled up styrofoam occupies. It is estimated that 25-30% of landfills are solely dedicated to plastics‚ including styrofoam. This Means that almost 1/4th of all our landfills are being filled with styrofoam or other plastics. This number can be reduced greatly if the findings of this experiment were to be taken up by others. Another harm that is presented by the lack of recycling of styrofoam is polystyrene

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    outputs to remove solids and any pollutant chemicals that would be realised into the air. * Treating water of foul drainage before it is discharged into sea outfalls to reduce the effects on marine environment. * Minimising wastage by recycling construction products such as timber‚ metal and bricks and therefore reducing pollution dumped into landfill sites. * Using developments in technology such as biofuels and low sulphur fuels to provide cleaner emissions released during combustion

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