Persuasive Speech On Recycling

Attention Getter: According to epa.gov, “Each person in the United States produces an average of 4 pounds of household hazardous waste each year for a total of about 530,000 tons/year.”

The benefit of recycling on the environment is endless even if you are just recycling paper products it can be beneficial. According to a website on recycling paper and other products recycling a single run of the Sunday “New York Times” would save seventy five thousand trees. The amount of wasted land that is left behind by those seventy thousand trees. could have been a strong environment that was destroyed just for a single run of the “New York Times”. According to the same source recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. This energy used to burn the plastic is payed by the American people’s tax dollar that money could be saved by you just by simpling recycling. In the same source it says that approximately one billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the United States this paper thrown away is sent to these giant landfills and cost millions of dollars to dispose of as where if it was recycled we could save money by not having to pay for the paper sent to landfill and save money by not having to have it burned down or stored. The average American uses eighty five million tons of paper a year; about six hundred and eighty pounds per person according to the source earlier

Attention Getter: According to epa.gov, “Each person in the United States produces an average of 4 pounds of household hazardous waste each year for a total of about 530,000 tons/year.”

Developing countries have made harmful contributions to our environment. Each year, 20-50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed. The largest e-waste

Here in the United States alone, we produced 3.412 million tons of electronic waster, also known as e-waste (Facts and Figures 2014). However only one million tons were recycled correctly, according to the standards of the Environmental Protection Agency (Facts and Figures 2014). So, that means that two million tons were disposed of through landfills or other disposal methods. This enormous amount of e-waste has become a prominent issue due to our political economic system, better known as capitalism. However, our capitalistic system doesn’t just effect our country when it comes to e-waste, it also effects the environmental conditions of the newly developing countries around the Globe too (Wilson 2017).

Everything you eat. Everything you drink. Everything you use. Your entire life’s consumption all in one place at one time. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generate 251 million tons of trash per year (Kulpinski). Fifty-five percent gets buried in landfills, thirty-three percent gets recycled, and twelve percent goes to incinerators (Kulpinski). Pollution generated by transporting waste to landfills also harms the environment. Vehicles used to move waste creates diesel exhaust, which contains nearly forty toxic substances. How we manage our goods when we no longer have a use for them, can make a big difference in our environmental footprint. We need to use more recycled materials and by doing that we can start to

Electronic or E-waste is a growing problem in the United States. Our landfills are becoming cluttered with the waste created when Americans replace their electronics so very often. Part of the reason people discard E-waste in such large numbers are they feel they need the latest model, others blame inferior construction so the products don’t last as long as they used to. No matter the reason for being discarded, E- Waste is a significant problem. It goes beyond the items piling up; as previously mentioned Science has come a long way and we have learned that many of these products are known to contain materials that can cause health and ecological problems when removed from the devices by leaking out into the environment. It is estimated that millions of tons of E-waste are

These days, our earth has been filled by a lot of waste. There is a lot of garbage, plastic waste, and electronic waste. We always produce it and dump it when we need the new one. Our waste are piling up and continuously accumulating. Plastic waste is one of the biggest problems for us now. And our solution in this problem is recycling. In my opinion, recycling is a way to manage used items into new products. We can reduce, reuse, and recycling (3R) waste management (Peter, 2013). We can reduce our waste clothes with reuse it. There are some reasons why peoples recycle used or unwanted items, which are, prevent wasting unusable materials that still have usage after recycled, reduce the application of raw materials, reduce energy

You may be wondering what e-waste exactly is. According to the article, “The Problem with E-Waste,” by iFixit, it states that e-waste is lots of old electronics, such as computers, tablets, and lots of phones. It also states that 18 months is the average amount of time an American keeps a phone. If this applied to every person in the United States, that would be lots of e-waste. However, it gets worse. It states that in the video, “Alex Lin Helps Reduce E-Waste,” on Take Part TV, that every piece of e-waste has toxic chemicals in it. Just some of these toxic chemicals are things like arsenic and lead as said in, “The Problem with E-Waste.” To add on to the phone disaster, 1.6 BILLION phones were made in 2012. Now that people have the latest phones, where do you think the old phones are now? Probably in a landfill somewhere. As you can see, e-waste really is a problem, and people need to stop throwing away electronics.

For example in 1997, the U.S recycled 13 million cars which conserved 32.5 billion pounds of

One of the worst things that people can gain from recycling is a false sense of security. Recycling is supposed to help the environment, so a person would assume that recycling sites are environmentally safe, but in reality they “are often often unsafe and unhygienic because of the harmful chemicals and large amounts of waste dumped there, which can lead to the toxication of bodies of water” (Thompson). Recycling sites are not any better than waste disposal sites, if not worse. They seem to be causing more damage than repair. Recycling paper is also counterintuitive. Paper accounts for “approximately 80 percent of all materials recycled today… yet recycling doesn’t save forests. Fully 87 percent of our paper stock

Electronic wastes are products that have become unwanted and are not being used anymore as if they were to not have a use in life anymore. The reason for this is because technology advances so quickly that people begin to put aside older electronic devices. A good example of this would be the Apple IPhones. When the IPhone 5 came out it sold 9 million units, and then after 1-year when the iPhone 6 became released, many people put aside their iPhone 5’s or disposed of them improperly after purchasing the new IPhone.

E-waste refers to the waste emanating from the old electronics such as computers, radios, mobile phones, and laptops. Once the gadgets have outlived their usefulness, people discard

E-waste is a general term for a variety of used or broken electronic devices which puts most electronics we own as a potential source for new e-waste. In other words, e-waste generates at an extremely alarming speed. As Puckett’s (2002) study found that 50 million tons of e-waste are being produced each year. Most of e-waste eventually reaches its destination

KEY ISSUE: Electronic waste (aka: E-Waste) produced by affluent countries ends up in developing countries, where it poisons the local environment and people. 41.5 million tons of e-waste was generated in 2011, and 93.5 million tons is expected to be generated per year by 2016 (Bonnington 2014). Many companies claim to have the environment in mind by designing products that use less energy or have eco-friendly packaging (Bonnington 2014). However, those green initiatives aren’t worth boasting about, since billions of electronics are trashed annually for the newer, more publicized versions.