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    Plastic Bags

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    nts environmental damage Repairing the Damage The Great Waste Non-biodegradable They litter our streets Plastic bags suffocate and kill Wildlife concerns Spread Awareness Environment destroyement Paper It messes up future with too much plastic bags and ends ups that we might have to leave earth. All the No points No need to ban‚ add a tax Used as a marketing ploy Freedom of choice people forget their re-useable bags Causes expense to consumers in a time of recession causes loss

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    decision of whether or not to recycle. Without an adequate recycling system in the city‚ our immediate environment could face serious consequences. Statistics from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show that in 2009‚ the amount of trash sent to landfills nationwide averaged nearly three pounds daily‚ per person‚ in contrast to about one and one-half pounds of materials recycled (Environmental Protection Agency‚ 9). Recycling should come naturally to every citizen in Plano‚ Texas if they have proper

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    If the trash is continuity dumped in a landfill many miles away you just happen to forget about it‚ however people won’t forget if a landfill just happens to fall next to a home. Well with the growing amount of trash the amount of landfill space is growing smaller and smaller. A portion of the material is burned emitting harmful gasses to the surrounding land. The majority‚ however‚ is thrown into a landfill and forgotten. “Liquids that get thrown away will seep through the

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    Introduction Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials‚ reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials‚ reduce energyusage‚ reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution from landfilling by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal‚ and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass‚ paper‚ metal‚ plastic‚ textiles‚ and others. Nowadays

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    Solid Waste in Hk

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    and inert construction waste. Some of the non-inert construction waste can be recycled like bamboo while some inert constructions waste like bitumen and concrete and used as some land formation. However‚ the construction waste are more likely to go landfill. The rest is Special waste like waster sludge‚ livestock waste and some chemical

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    There needs to be a mandatory computation for families sent out‚ like a census‚ to track their usage for a week to as a means of bringing like to the amount of waste being generated. In calculating my own use‚ as a family of five‚ I found my landfill bag to be the fullest at the end of the week‚ yet the recyclables‚ paper included‚ weighed the most. Paper in my home is abundance‚ yet the more paper the less trees and although this destroys a living organism and seems to be the easiest for anyone

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    Honolulu Waste Problems

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    remain for Honolulu as the state’s largest city struggles to find a home for all its waste. With its lone dump filling up fast‚ officials had been counting on a plan to ship at least 100‚000 tons of blue‚ plastic-wrapped garbage bales each year to a landfill near an Indian reservation in Washington state. But the tribe vehemently objected and won a court ruling last week that put the plan on hold indefinitely. Acting Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell acknowledged as much Monday. "The city bent over backwards

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    Trashed Response

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    “Trashed” Essay From the perspective of space you can barely tell the effect humans have made on the earth. As you get closer‚ however‚ you can see the trash and impact we have truly caused. “Trashed” was influential to me because it opened my eyes to a different perspective. It showed me real world people in real world situations. I’ve ignored the facts and was ignorant to not think of the fact the world is deteriorating around me. I never really thought of where all our trash goes not only as

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    Tyre Recycling in the UK: Present and Future Trends End-of-life vehicles (ELV’s) are motor vehicles that are defined as waste by the Waste Directive. All of the components are classed as waste as well‚ including the tyres‚ which represent approximately 3.5% of the weight of an ELV. Considering 8 million vehicles are disposed of and 18 million part-worn tyres are disposed of‚ a total of 50 million tyres need to be dealt with each year. This report will discuss the current methods of recycling

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    The problem with plastics

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    institute‚ 86% of plastic water bottles used in the US become garbage that ends up in landfills throughout the country. About 60 million plastic water bottles are used every day in the US. Each year making the plastic water bottles used in the US Takes enough oil and energy to fuel 1 million cars All that energy spent to make Water bottles even more to ship it around the Country. Nearly 18‚834‚000‚000 end up in the landfill each year. Each bottle can take up to 700 years to decompose or in incinerators

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