Persuasive Essay: Recycling Banks

Recycling and conservation are the solution to climate change and to saving energy. America sends a majority of its trash to landfills when it could be put to much better use by means of recycling or even by burning it to produce energy. Pollution is greatly reduced when recycling because the need to collect new raw materials goes down. Recycling is great because it can help people conserve this Earth for future generations who deserve to have a healthy Earth. Once the United Stated reaches recycling levels of 75%, it would be the equivalent of getting rid of fifty five million cars from the roads in the U.S. each year.

I am going to persuade you that recycling should be required because it is very dangerous to not recycle. If more people started to recycle, it would reduce the pollution in the air or as some people call it smog. The way this works is by cleaning the air we breathe by not having to burn the extra plastics, papers, and cardboard people did not recycle. Almost all the things we buy are all made in factories, which creates pollution. If there were less factories, less pollution is created.

Recycling has had a large impact in our community over the past few decades. Rather than throwing all our trash in the garbage can, we, as a community should continue to recycle as much as possible. Not only does it cut down on litter, it can also add to our growing economy, cut down on pollution, and save our raw materials. Arizona currently recycles about sixty percent of its beverage containers, and because only a handful of cities have mandatory recycling programs they are the perfect candidate to experiment with a new recycling program (Bottle-deposit 2). I propose that the state of Arizona put a bottle bill, similar to the one in Oregon, into action. All eleven states that

You can’t walk across a college campus, past an office building, or through a park without seeing one, two, or ten empty bottles. Many are plastic water bottles. Trash bins overflow them. Those water bottles are a problem. Why? Because only one out of five bottles actually makes it to a recycling bin. Plastic bottles take centuries to decompose and if they are incinerated, toxic byproducts, such as chlorine gas and ash containing heavy metals, are releasing into the atmosphere. The rest are littered on our streets or over filing our landfills. They degrade our landscape and damage our environment. In addition the plastic water bottles are not biodegradable that is, they don’t decay. They remain as trash a hundreds of years.

The implement of recycling programs can cut down the curbside waste that is produced by every household in the world. “Recycling policies are becoming increasingly prominent generally, and plastic water bottle recycling is at the forefront of many recycling policy initiatives”. (Viscusi, Huber, Bell, 2011, pg 1) There are even some states within the United States that increase the cost of water or soda in bottles. This is their way of putting a deposit on the bottle so that it will prompt the person buying the bottle to recycle it and at that point obtain their deposit back.

In 2016, Americans elected a new President, Donald Trump. During his campaign, candidate Trump made several promises about the EPA. One of Donald Trump’s campaign promises that I read on www.washingtonpost.com, “the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might disappear,” reminded me of the “Love Canal” scandal. As a student of biology and geology and a future scientist, the idea that government agencies would no longer assist with the protection of the environment, which includes politicians, was astonishing. According to an Executive Order signed by President Trump and posted on www.epa.gov, the “2015 Clean Water Rule” that protected streams and oceans from environment pollutants was rescinded (2017). The reason the quote by candidate Trump and the executive order by President Trump has any relevance is because these same actions could impact pre-1991 landfills. Landfills built before the 1991 regulations were not required to install barriers that protect the groundwater from carcinogens. There are chemicals that the EPA has determined to cause cancers and presently exist in landfills. Landfills built before 1991 are not required to protect any humans, wildlife or plants, or water from toxins and the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt could decide the current regulations are too

Today landfills are severely overflowing in many cities, causing mayors, governors, and other office holders to call for emergency meetings to find solutions. The amount of half-eaten meals thrown away from schools is a staggering high amount. Landfills overflowing is a problem that every single person in the USA has to come to terms with. The overflow is the direct cause from everyone, from schools, to business', homes, etc... Everyone must participate in the solution. In schools meals are served on trays that are made of plastics, Styrofoam, and even cardboards. Foods are being thrown out whole and at the end of the day many schools are guilty of throwing untouched

When one hears the word recycle, they imagine an image of a trashcan with green arrows. One may think that throwing plastic and paper products into a bin will save the planet. Not many know the process of what happens behind the scenes. Others are unaware of its effects on America. There exists proof that its lasting effects are beneficial. This may sound too good to be true and there are many questions asked. How does recycling work, and what are its effects on the American people today? These questions address the process of recycling, the pros versus cons of its cost, and its environmental impact in America.

“The affluent, fast-paced, throwaway American culture is producing trash on a stupendous scale.” (Young,Mitchell page 14). We are living in a plastic universe, and very unaware. The problem with plastic, is how frequently it is being used, and having no true way of disposing it. The fibers of plastic are in just about everything on Earth, not only is it sitting inside the Earth, it is in everything surrounding us. There is plastic materials in food containers, make up, fuel, and so much more. Using science, and technology, we need to find new ways of disposing unwanted shreds of plastic, and other recyclables. Recycling might not get rid of all the issues growing with global warming, but being aware of what is being

Thesis: For us to be able to live in a clean and healthy environment we all including the companies mass producing the recyclables need to take recycling more seriously.

In Newark, NJ restaurants and bars accumulate bulky trash made up of primarily heavy glass bottles. My company, which will be named Glass-Cycle, can offer a service to meet the needs of restaurants and bars in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ. Glass-Cycle will pick up the trash, which we consider to be raw materials for our own business purpose of selling recycled and repurposed stained glass items back to the restaurant and bar owners and also the local community of Newark, NJ, online shoppers. Glass is 100 percent recyclable and therefore the glass that restaurants and bars in the city throw out should be managed and recovered, as there is a great social and environmental need for it. Collecting the glass from the restaurants and

A worker at a paper factory in Illinois states, “Then the issue was saving a tree. But trees are replaced. We plant them, we cut them, we plant them again” (Pendleton). The worker also said, “The problem now is the landfill situation, I think this one is going to stick” (Pendleton). By 1991 thirty-nine states and hundreds of local governments have passed laws or solutions requiring the purchase of recycled paper. According to Henry Miller, vice president of a paper mill said, “By volume, thirty-eight percent of solid waste in a landfill is paper and cardboard” (Pendleton). That paper and cardboard, if recycled could have produced that much paper or other products and it would have cleared up thirty-eight percent of many landfills across America. One major way to get people involved with recycling is the environment perspective. Not only would the landfills be cut down the environment gains a lot by having people recycle. So what do the states do to keep the environment clean? They enact laws against litter and waste. One way is the state requiring the deposit on beer and soft-drink bottles and cans (Prichard 8A). In those states, millions of bottles and cans that once were left on beaches, tossed in rivers and parks or thrown along the highways are being taken back to stores instead for a refund. A twenty-year old student from Michigan said, “Throwing away cans is like throwing away money to me” (Prichard 8A). These state laws must be working if people have this

Pollution is a toxic that wreaks havoc on the environment. Unfortunately, a large portion of the world’s environmental issues stem from human wastes. As we look at past practice and the evolution of the world, we as consumers must realize how we have and still are contributing to the downfall of our society. In an attempt to protect the environment and become eco-friendly businesses have created products that help to put recycling to better usage. Instead of using plastic water bottle that consume landfills and take decades to decompose, we now are using B.P.A. free reusable water bottle that are eco-friendly and stylish. It is challenging to take on pollution as a whole but if everyone makes small adjustments in their everyday lives we could prevent many of the dangers we are encroaching on. Humans can use less water, recycle, reuse bags and bottles, walk or use public transportation to help prevent water, air and land pollutants. It is not an easy task but if we are made aware we make more conscience decisions and the results are endless.

Plastic waste is a major problem in New Zealand (“Why recycle?,” n.d.). By weight, about 8% of waste in landfills is plastic (Ministry of Environment, 2009), but because plastic is lighter than most materials this is an estimated 20% of landfill space (“Why recycle?,” n.d.). A shocking 250 thousand tonnes of plastic in landfills (Judd, 2011). This is primarily because plastic is not biodegradable (“Polluted planet: Plastic waste,” 2011), but our business aims to address this problem. Crates are very useful storage containers, which our business will break down plastic waste into raw material, to make reusable recyclable, Green Crates. By cooperating with large supermarkets, we will spread drop boxes in their stores where people will earn discount points towards their shopping, if they drop their plastic waste into these boxes. In addition, we will give a 20% reward of the crates value, if our crates are

And as an alternative for tossing those old bottles and cans out in the recycling take them in yourself and get some of your money back for recycling them. In Elizabeth Rogers book titled “The Green Book, The everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time”, she states that “Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, is one of the largest recyclers of aluminum cans and they even recycle more cans than they sell. Take it from them; the simplest of steps can make the largest of difference”.(106)