ecycling
I support recycling. There are a number of arguments in favor of recycling and very few reasonable ones against. This paper will outline the balance of the arguments. ecycling in this context refers to materials such as glass, plastic and paper being sent to depots for gathering and subsequent processing. This processing essentially breaks down the material from its final consumer form to a more basic form. At that point, it is rebuilt back into consumer material and re-used.
Support for ecycling
One of the biggest arguments in favor of recycling is that materials typically sent out for recycling are finite. This is especially true of plastic, which is made from molecules found in hydrocarbons -- oil and gas, so non-renewable resources that are better used for energy than plastic bags anyway. ecycling allows us to use less of our finite resources, because every extraction contributes to multiple product life cycles, instead…...
mlaReferences
EPA.gov. (2014). Waste management options. Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved March 21, 2014 from http://www.epa.gov/osw/homeland/options.htm
Kinnon, S. (2008). Plastic pros and cons. Alive. Retrieved March 21, 2014 from http://www.alive.com/articles/view/21832/plastic_pros_and_cons
Recycling: How it Improves Our Environment
Most individuals in today's society know that recycling plays an important role in managing the waste generated in homes and businesses, and that it reduces the need for landfills and incinerators. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency reports, "in the year 2000, the United States recycled over 66,600,000 tons of materials" (USEPA, 2000). However, many people are not aware of all the materials that can be recycled, or of how the recycling of those materials aids in helping the environment. Recycling is far more than a local waste management strategy; it is also an important strategy for reducing the environmental impacts of industrial production.
There has been a problem of waste from man's earliest time. Even as far back as 1388, when the English Parliament banned dumping of waste in ditches and public waterways, there have been issues with how waste is removed, and how to…...
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Northeast Recycling Council. "Recycling and the Environment: Facts about recycling in Connecticut," NERC Bulletin, August 1999.
ecycling and Trash Collection in Modern Countries
Garbage becomes a community problem in many countries. The household contributes a big part of the national municipal solid waste, but indeed the bigger part comes from the industry and business operations. For the U.S., this waste product has hit a very astonishing count. Goldstein, N. And Madtes, C. (2000) claimed that the states had produced around 409,029,000 tons of municipal solid waste in 2000.
Trash stacks travel through several paths, addressing mostly to their final destination in local landfills or recycling centers. Although there are different methods applied and researched properly, the field execution differs in each country. Many countries have implemented different policies depending on the amount of garbage piling in concentrated location, open landfill availability, and at the same time, they also work on developing certain infrastructures to suffice the landfill location shortage, environmental concern and also the applicable funding system for…...
mlaReferences
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Facing America's Trash: What Next for Municipal Solid Waste? 1989. U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. 380 pp.
Goldstein, N. And Madtes, C. The State of Garbage in America. 2000. BioCycle Journal of Composting & Organics Recycling November 2000. p. 40.
Hanley, S.B. (2001). Advanced Public Sanitation in 17-19th Century Japan. Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry. January/February edition.
As of now, there are significant "barriers" in place preventing millions of Americans from having access to convenient recycling (American Beverage Association).
The warrants substantiating the claims are straightforward. For one, America is in the midst of an economic recession. Many Americans have lost their jobs and can barely afford to pay for their rent, food, and medical bills. If it will cost Americans money to recycle items like televisions, then Americans are simply going to rebel. Second, Americans cannot be expected to sort their garbage. The process is dirty, it takes up too much time out of the day, and it requires Americans to actually read the packages they are buying. Americans need a simpler solution, but none has been found yet. In one locality, a custodian was "left sifting through waste, trying to pull out recyclables and garbage mixed in the wrong bins," (Carberry). This shows that recycling…...
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Mobile phones, computers, and similar electronics are now recyclable and people need to find means of sending such materials to be recycled properly.
Batteries are among the most damaging materials for the environment as they are made out of metals, acids, and other materials which are very polluting. Most countries have recycling bins for objects with a high rate of pollution within the reach of mainly all of their people. Poorer countries however lack such means of recycling and very harmful waste is being produced in those areas. There are communities which refrain from collecting hard-to-recycle materials for the fact that they do not possess the appropriate methods of recycling such substances. There are frequent cases of materials being gathered for recycling to be eventually thrown away as waste.
Rubber from tires is being collected all around the world in large piles without anyone caring about the damage that those heaps…...
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The largest component of these appliances is white goods and that constitutes 43% of the total waste. (Electrical and electronic equipment recycling information sheet)
The next largest component is it equipment and that is 39% of the total. Most of the it equipment that is being discarded is computers which become obsolete vary rapidly. There are also a large number of TV sets which are thrown away every year and the annual figure is now around 2 million. As per the figures of 1998, there was a discard of 6 million tons of electrical equipment and along with this equipment there was a loss of 2.4 million tons of ferrous metal, 1.2 million tons of plastic; 652,000 tons of copper; 336,000 tons of aluminum and 336,000 tons of glass. (Electrical and electronic equipment recycling information sheet) the process of enforcement of the European Union rules has led to a situation…...
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Belger, M. (2007, November…...
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The standards include recycling C & D. debris. The Chicago Center for Green Technology got an award for its building (Grzeskowiak, 2006). Our city could do the same. Tallahassee, Florida recently renovated their Solid Waste Administration building to conform to green standards (Grzeskowiak, 2006). A successful "green" building has been built in New York City -- the first green high-rise residential building in the United States. The designers set up a wastewater treatment system that sends flushwater to all the toilets in the building and to an adjacent building (Zavoda, 2006).
In all of this, the city makes the rules and sets the standards. Our city needs to require recycling of construction and demolition debris, too, and encourage green building.
Another thing the City could do -- a smaller, but effective and very visible program -- would be to place recycling bins on the street for pedestrian use. Presently, pedestrians have…...
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ecycling
The list of questions I want to ask about the company's recycling program include the following:
What types of plastic (identifiable by numbers) are eligible for recycling on -- site?
For the types of plastic that are not eligible for recycling on-site, what alternative brands or products can be used so that the company does not generate any excess unnecessary waste?
What changes to the company's operations do you recommend, so that less waste is generated?
For recycling electronics, what are the best procedures and practices you recommend?
To answer these questions, I interviewed the waste management commissioner of the city. Commissioner Eleanor Tubman has been working in waste management services for fifteen years, and heads the city's recycling departments. Most of the recycling in the city is done by a private service.
First I asked Commissioner Tubman what she thought were the greatest steps our company could take to reducing the amount of waste we…...
On December 14, 2004, Germany was told it must "introduce a system that allows drinks makers, including beer and soft drinks producers, to do business fairly across Europe. Germany must giver drinks makers a longer period to prepare their businesses for complying with the new system, and to make sure consumers can recover their deposits in a far wider variety of drop-off points (unknown)."
Recycling Around the orld
The United States is not the only country currently involved in recycling programs. The United Kingdom has a program known as "aste atch, which is the leading national organization promoting and encouraging action on the 3Rs - waste reduction, reuse and recycling. They work with community organizations, local and national government encouraging the environmental benefits of waste minimization and recycling, while also highlighting the positive impact on the economy and wider society
There is a recycling organization know as BIR, which is "an international trade…...
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Horrigan, Alice and Jim Motavalli. "Talking trash. (recycling)." E. Magazine.
Magnum's closed-loop recycling technology eliminates the greenhouse gases produced by old-fashioned recycling processes, removing the steel mesh and fiber from the scrap tires and converting them into purified high-grade tire crumb. The company has collaborated with Sekhar esearch Innovations that has granted it exclusive North American rights to a unique activation and devulcanization process that imparts to recycled rubber the same elasticity and resilience as virgin rubber and allows for the creation of new custom compounds.
The next step in the research process is to test the hypotheses. In this study independent test results validate that Magnum SI's rubber-activated compounds possess all the properties of natural rubber compounds, meeting all technical and performance parameters needed for value-added applications. Magnum's entry into the market comes at a time when rubber manufacturers have been squeezed between recessionary forces and higher fuel and operating costs, hurting margins and driving up product prices.
The data…...
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Meanwhile Porter points out that in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2002, the city was collecting 11,586 tons of recyclables materials a year (roughly two-thirds of a pound per person per day) and those numbers added up to an impressive benefit: a savings to the city of $324,000 a year (143). Not only that, but costs of solid wastes are avoided, and Ann Arbor no longer operates its own landfill; instead it pays $28 a ton for non-recyclables to be hauled to a private landfill, Porter explains.
Like Porter, author Don Fullerton is not shy about exposing the fiscal reality of recycling from the market perspective; he even suggests that cities perhaps have launched curbside recycling programs with "incomplete information" (Fullerton, 2002, p. 161). Once local and state policy makers discover how expensive it is for a municipality to put a curbside recycling program in place, Fullerton suggests some city recycling programs…...
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recycling should be made mandatory. The first part of the paper presents a thesis statement after which three pieces of evidence have been provided to support my thesis statement. In conclusion, I have summarized my whole argument emphasizing on the thesis statement.
Yes, recycling should be made an obligation. ecycling is an imperative necessity of the time. In the modern-day, it has turned out to be a valuable and suggestive process as it ensures environmental benefits including landfill reduction, energy saving and conservation of natural resources ("ecycling").
For the past several years, the central form of recycling comprised of direct recycling by the producers or firms of excess, flawed or out of order materials. Throughout the 1990s, on the other hand, indirect recycling also turned out to be a main form of recycling. Indirect recycling is, in actual fact, the recycling of materials after their utilization by the consumers. It is…...
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The first citywide curbside recycling starts in University City, Missouri (for newspapers).
The esource Conservation and ecovery Act is created, which focuses on recycling.
The Comprehensive Environmental esponse Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund) was passed.
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments passed.
Superfund Amendments and eauthorization Act passed. hode Island is the first state to pass mandatory recycling laws for cans, glass, newspapers and plastic.
Ocean Dumping Ban passed. The Plastic Bottle Institute develops a material identification code system for plastic bottle manufacturers (#1-6).
McDonalds stops using Styrofoam packaging due to protests. Coca-Cola and Pepsi announce they will use recycled PET bottles made of about 25% recycled plastic resin.
The federal recycling order is signed.
U.N. Earth Summit promotes sustainable development.
POBLEMS
Those who are against the idea of recycling the products and resources being used cite several issues for the basis of their beliefs. The first issue is the belief that "recycling "squanders money and good will, and doesn't do…...
mlaReferences
Talking trash. (recycling) (Waste Not, part 1)
E; 3/1/1997; Motavalli, Jim
Recycling: a policy dilemma for American states?
Policy Studies Journal; 6/22/1993; Khator, Renu
about.com. 2011.
Some facts about the actual costs of recycling vs. traditional disposal expenses is presented by this article, and is certainly worthy of examination: a) a well-run curbside recycling program costs between $50 and $150 per ton; b) typically a trash collection and disposal program costs between $70 to $200 per ton. hen New York City discovered that it was losing money on its recycling program in 2002, it eliminated glass and plastic recycling. But then its landfills were full and closed, and out-of-state landfills raised prices so high it made sense for New York to begin recycling glass and plastic again, and today it is "an economically viable" alternative to hauling truckloads of plastic and glass to other states to ham their landfills.
EarthTalk. "hy Is Recycling Not Mandatory in All U.S. Cities?" About.com. Retrieved June
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In answer to the above-referenced question from Vicki in Geneva New…...
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2. Is the death penalty an effective deterrent for violent crime?
3. Should college athletes be paid for their performance?
4. Are stricter gun control laws necessary to reduce gun violence?
5. Should the government provide free healthcare for all citizens?
6. Is climate change a result of human activity?
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Topic Ideas on the Impact of Technology
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- The automation of tasks and rise of artificial intelligence (AI)
- The impact on job displacement, creation, and wage inequality
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- The democratisation of information through the internet and social media
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