Persuasive Speech On Recycling

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.

One of the biggest reasons recycling should be taken so serious is because of its positive affect on the environment. Without recycling, so many goods that have potential to be repurposed are thrown into landfills. These landfills are piled up and affect the lives of countless wildlife. This quote by Allen Hershkowitz shows the enormity of the helpfulness of recycling. “Because using recycled materials reduces the need to extract, process, refine, and transport the timber, crude petroleum, ores, and so on that are necessary for virgin-based paper, plastics, glass, and metals, recycling lessens the toxic air emissions, effluents, and solid wastes that these manufacturing processes create” (Hershkowitz). Not having to put the weight of everyone’s trash trash on the world’s land and instead, repurposing it into something usable saves so many resources. Recycling not only leaves more room for things where the trash would have gone, but it also means that the people living here will get farther with the resources they have. The more that is taken from the earth the less there will be for those in the future, so saving and taking care of what is here is very important. The ones living in the world today are the people who are get to decide how the people of the generations to come are going to live. People should not want their kids living in a world of filth and pollution where no one cares about the world they are living on. An article by Omid Nodoushani discussed in depth the terrible amounts of pollution that is

Imagine you wake up in 20 years and all you see out your window is trash lining the streets and roads. This is what is going to happen if we don’t start recycling now. If we all start recycling now we will have beautiful streets and roads not full of trash. I picked this topic because it is a worldwide problem and I think this topic can be solved. I was very curious about this topic and I wanted to know more about recycling.These are some driving questions I had at the beginning of this project. Why don’t a lot of people recycle? What is the most recycled item? Where is recycling a very big problem in the world? How can more people be involved with recycling? How many people and animals get affected by recycling every year? My driving question was how can we as people create a better recycling society.

Recycling is reusing materials like paper, plastics, and glass, breaking them down and turning them into a new product. This way no materials get wasted and not as many resources are used up for new products. There are many ways to dispose of waste, in this case plastics; incineration, landfilling, biodegradation and recycling. Incineration is effective however creates negative environmental risks and health risks by releasing different harmful gases. Landfilling requires space and many chemicals and energy in plastics are lost in disposal routes. Biodegradable plastics may not degrade fast enough to avoid a build of plastics and to help the environment. Recycling plastics is time consuming and plastics must be sorted through by the types of

Main Point 1: According to Richard Fuller, a system theorist, “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”written on

We live in a world that has become increasingly conscious of the environment and as a result many have become conscientious of recycling, using natural resources more efficiently and even propagating this in schools. We are not only educated about what, where and how to recycle but also actively participate in the process. Then why does recycling a person’s organs become such a tension and even taboo in some cases?

Global warming is caused by several things. One of these is the release of carbon dioxide into the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by using energy generated from burning fossil fuels.

What happens after someone throws their water bottle into the recycling bin? Or what about when they toss out their newspaper? With recycling, anyone can reduce waste and in turn help the environment. Recycling has many economic and environmental advantages; therefore, its use must undergo exponential growth.

The first earth day was established in the 1970s and that marked the day when recycling went into effect. In the year 1919 recycling became an everyday routine. They just thought they were reusing products because things were scarce. After 1950 the American Can Company formed America Recycles Day is a national initiative of “Keep America Beautiful”. That program was the back bone for how people are recycling today. Recycling is a complicated topic from the process, benefits, and programs in place.

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

My entire life I have always been proud of my eco-friendly awareness. I grew up in Newton Massachusetts, a mainly upper-middle class city right outside of Boston. Picture helicopter parents calling teachers to discuss their child’s unsatisfactory B grade, and teachers who are exhaustingly politically correct because the other option would be unemployment, this is Newton in a nutshell. Despite these setbacks, I’m glad I grew up in that environment. From a young age the adults in my life have ingrained that acceptance of everyone is not a choice, but a requirement, along with recycling. Okay, obviously required recycling seems a little extreme and not every single person did it, but it was looked down upon to not recycle. Even now as a teenager, I judge the people who decide not to recycle, which I guess kind of goes against the whole “accept everyone” mantra. But we’re not supposed to accept literally everyone. The idea of acceptance of all I find to be a bit paradoxical. Even if you disagree, you are supposed to tolerate all opinions and ideas, while simultaneously standing against people who spread opinions and ideas that go against your morals. Without going too deep into the social politics of the world, let’s leave it at that. This long convoluted explanation is my attempt at introducing my beliefs: everyone who doesn’t recycle goes straight to hell. All jokes aside, humans have done irreversible damage to this planet, and regardless of upbringing, this fact should be

The world is full of people using everyday products made from plastics or styrofoam, from simple things like cups, forks and spoons to expensive electronics such as printers, phones, and TV’s. “About 300 million tons of plastic is produced globally each year”(Raising Awareness of Plastic Waste) and “more than 14 million tonnes of polystyrene(styrofoam) are produced every year around the world”(Now and forever: The Styrofoam dilemma). With these high amounts being produced each year it is easy to see why our oceans are now filled with these materials which end up damaging our earths ecosystem, marine life, and wild life. Out of the 300 million tons of plastic produced “only about 10 percent of that is recycled”(Raising Awareness of Plastic Waste) and out of the 14 million tons of styrofoam produced only “56 million pounds of styrofoam are recycled”(EPS (Styrofoam) Facts, Figures and Statistics) This means that the majority of plastics and styrofoam end up in landfills or our oceans changing our world for the worst one non-recycled item at a time. After reviewing two different Ted Talks, one about recycling plastic by Mike Biddle and one about recycling styrofoam by Ashton Cofer it has become more apparent to me that recycling plastics is extremely important and Mike Biddle has the solution.

Recycling and landfills are two ways we get rid of waste on earth. One see’s all the garbage stacked in a pile. The other finds a way to reuse the, “trash” in an efficient way. I will compare the way recycling and traditional waste management handle the waste, the cost of each, the different types of methods, and its effects on the earth. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, which is a reason they both are still in effect today.

So you may be saying to yourself, “Of course! Why wouldn't it be?”. Well what if it isn't? What if using green products isn't the best way of keeping the environment as a whole healthy? I will thoroughly explain the answers to these questions. Based on information I have efficiently gathered, I will have to say that I believe it is both mandatory, but not making the greatest impact it should. My reason for my opinion is that recycling is crucial when it comes to keeping environment healthy by reducing pollution and by preventing dangerous and contaminated waste (or at least making it healthy), but articles have said that it's still regularly more costly for districts to reuse family household waste than to send it to a landfill. Recycling companies are forced into closing or canceling plans for mostly new technologies. There are many reasons why recycling is making a positive difference on our environment and even ourselves, but yet there are reasons why it’s not.

When I imagine the world, I imagine a world with blue skies, green grass and trees, crystal water and fresh air. This sounds pretty good, moreover imagine a world where the skies are gone, where trees become scarce and the water is a bonus that just limited people can have it. Where the jungles and the animal species were only part of the history. Imagine a world where all people needs to wear protection like anti-pollutions masks to breathe and special clothes to protect their skin against the UV rays. A world where the planet earth temperature can increase at extremely levels that is impossible to bear for walk or play. In this time, we cannot imagine a world where all the natural resources are gone and consequently the human extension is a reality. These toughs can be just imaginary, but what if they become real? Is it possible that these thoughts really happened?