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    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

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    materials are required to manufacture new products that require energy and these are not always biodegradable. The more number of non-biodegradable products or materials added to the environment means more matter in landfill areas. This in turn creates more issues due to lack of space in such landfill sites that cannot really accommodate

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    Space Trash

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    hand‚ or possession. If somebody throws a piece of trash on the ground where does it end up? Once trash is disposed of it usually ends up in one of two major places. It ends up in either some type of factory that burns up trash or it ends up in a landfill/ junkyard to just sit there and be harmful. Trash that ends up in factories that burns it to get rid of it becomes toxic in the form of smoke. When anything burns it lets off smoke‚ so what happens if something toxic such as plastic burns? Well‚

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    the City’s two landfills; accordingly‚ the homes were evacuated and the landfills were closed. After the closure‚ the City had no place to process its solid waste; however‚ through a negotiation process with King County‚ the City was able to find a place to process its solid waste for a period of two years in the County’s landfill. The two year period is the timeframe for the City to develop an alternative disposal option for its solid waste. Due to the cost of closing the landfills compounded with

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    Carbon Footprint Analysis

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    Carbon Footprint Analysis Background Every year in the U.S. over 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are released into the air‚ most of which are from human activities. The increased levels of carbon dioxide has been shown to cause global climate change (global warming). So how can you personally have an impact on global warming and the sustainability of the environment? First‚ you need to recognize how you contribute to the problem. Then you need to figure out how you can reduce

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    Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle

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    materials. Reduce means that this process of using thing you no longer need rather than having them stay in heaps on landfills. Reuse means they take the materials you no longer need and transform them into something useful that other people can use. Recycle is when you take materials that you are finished using and recycle them in proper ways. This process will reduce the amount of landfills in the world and reduce global warming and other world issues. While I’m writing this research paper on the three

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    Recycle Art

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    turned into a bottle depot for a refund and paper can be put in the office recycling bin‚ but where is all of the other waste we generate every single day go?  It ’s safe to say that a large majority of it may not necessarily have to be sent to a landfill‚ but because we don ’t know of any other disposal methods into the garbage bin it goes. The new craft of recycle art is easy‚

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    Rei Sustainability Case

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    aspirations are consistent with its corporate mission and its stated stewardship objectives that are listed above. REI sustainability goals focus on three areas; energy consumption‚ greenhouse gas emission (carbon footprint) and reduction of waster to landfills. The company plans to add water‚ toxics‚ land use and

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    Love Canal Case Study

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    authorization‚ began using the partially excavated canal as a chemical waste dump. At the end of this phase‚ the contents of the channel consisted of toxic chemicals‚ including known poisonous carcinogens. Hooker covered the sixteen-acre hazardous waste landfill in clay; selling the land to the Niagara Falls School Board‚ attempting to release itself from any future liability by including a noted warning in the property deed. There are some critical legal aspects of the Love Canal case. Many civil

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    Cloth vs. Disposable

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    and a total of 2 billion tons of urine‚ feces‚ plastic and paper are added to the landfills annually. It takes about 80‚000 pounds of plastic and over 200‚000 trees a year to manufacture disposal diapers for American babies alone. It will take several hundred years for the decomposition of the disposables to take place‚ some of the plastic material will never decompose. The untreated waste that is placed in the landfills by the dirty disposable diapers is also a possible danger to contaminating the

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