Our main goals are to first begin by enlightening the public of the amount of waste that is produced in different intervals of time through out our campus and college community. Next, we would like to campaign an effort toward making cognitive decisions about how to help not only reduce the amount of waste we produce so frequently, and help to encourage others into making more environmental waste decisions, such as recycling wasteful materials and reusing materials that are eligible for reuse. Also in our effort to encourage recycling, we would like to focus a large portion of our efforts into the recycling, reuse and reduction of plastic water bottles. Lastly, to follow up these efforts, we would like to educate and demonstrate some useful alternatives to plastic bottles, such as reusable water containers. There are many containers such as Nalgene bottles, and other aluminum canteens that are designed to be used over and over again and cost much less than purchasing bottled water. There are even containers with built in water filters to ensure that every time you use it, you are getting crisp, clean water.…
There will be less Environmental strain. Research shows that most purchased plastic bottles are not recycled.…
Landfills are swarming with plastic bottles; they are actually starting to overflow with them. The reason being, is that plastic takes so long to biodegrade, and plastic bottles made with PET never degrade. The factories that produce that PET aren’t helping with the pollution situation either. Industries use around forty seven million gallons of fossil fuels to produce water bottles each year and four hundred and fifty million gallons are used to transport it. The chemicals produced from…
In our world, pollution is a common factor to the deterioration this planet is facing. Water bottles, when not disposed of properly, lead to pollution. In an online article entitled, “Tap water vs. Bottled Water and the Environment,” it states, “…nearly 90% of bottles are not recycled.” (Karlstrom and Dell'Amore) The failure to recycle leads to serious issues in our environment. Who is to blame for the shortcomings of recycling? We all are. As citizens of America, we have a responsibility to recycle as soon as the bottle is in our possession. Even when transporting bottled water for production and sale, a significant amount of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide is produced causing much fuel usage. Although bottled water should not be blamed for all of the earth’s environmental issues, there is quite a bit of damage it has caused already and this should be a caveat for water bottle drinkers. On another side, tap water does not need the production of bottles so fossil fuels would not be utilized as much. The article explains that the environment would be 17.6 million barrels of oil richer if people consumed tap water over bottled water. (Karlstrom and Dell'Amore). Tap water could be consumed in washable glasses preventing the disposal of trash to end up on the landfills. Tap water is also used for other reasons besides drinking, for…
Recycling greatly benefits many aspects of the world, particularly the environment. Almost everything used in today’s society is manufactured from plastic (i.e. water/ shampoo/ mouthwash bottles, food containers, furniture, technology, etc.). Due to this, not recycling plastic can lead to many problems in our environment. Recycling plastic promotes the conservation of energy and natural resources. It also contributes to the decrease of water and air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To add, recycling plastic can save landfill space, or structure…
Hello James, I completly agree with you about recyling parts. I think there are a lot of opportunities for recylce and that is one of the easies way to contribute for sustainbility. But sometimes I questioned myself if it is really worth it. We have plenty of room in our landfills, and there is no need to recycle everything, then why have so many worked sohard to bring about more recycling? Is that whole effort the result of delusional, sentimental thinking? If we back off from recycling as our population continues to grow, we may find ourselves needing to start recycling a lot in a hurry, without systems in place to do it. Some substances are more worthwhile to recycle than others, depending on the energy required to extract the raw material,…
You go to a vending machine buy a water bottle drink it and throw it out, like nothing happened. But many people don’t know the negative side effects to the environment that doing that is causing.Plastic is literally at our fingertips all day long. We don’t normally think of the environment on an everyday basis. And not everyone will stop using plastic water bottles, but even a couple of people making small changes to help the environment can add up. Using reusable water bottles is a great start. Not only is it good for the environment but it will also save you a lot of money. I have found Camelbak water bottles to be really good and durable easy to carry around and also very good for the environment.…
The bottles being discarded by the consumers are damaging the environment. 89 billion liters of water is being bottled each year, besides the number of bottles required to bottle this volume of water, the energy to transport this world wide is a problem in its self.…
"Only about 14 percent of single-serving plastic water bottles are recycled..." "Therefore, about 86 percent of the water bottles sold are wasted: landfilled, incinerated, or littered," says Jennifer Gitlitz. Kids in school will most likely not throw their water bottles in the recycling bin but in the trash bin which filter into being landfilled or incinerated, and the CRI tracks the total number of wasted beverage cans and plastic bottles that go into U.S. landfills every year with a…
The rest of the bottles ended up as litter in places such as landfills, land and in rivers, streams, and oceans. Producing water bottles in the U.S. uses around 1.5 million barrels of oil every year. This is enough energy to power 250,000 homes or fuel for 100,000( Langwith 5). Taking water for plastic bottles puts quite a strain on our rivers, streams, and community drinking water supplies. When water isn’t bottled from a municipal supply these companies must draw it from groundwater supplies, rivers, springs or streams (Langwith…
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3. A report from Alberta’s Workplace Health and Safety confirms the death of a young landscaper working for the city of Edmonton, was caused by a distracted driver who never seemed to realize she had hit him. The landscaper was working on a clear and sunny day on July 24 when a Honda Civic crashed into him. According to witnesses, the young man was clearly visible. Some said the woman was holding a cell phone and seemed to be texting before getting out of her car. “The driver did not even know that she had crushed a landscape worker. There…
Attention Getter: I would like to start my presentation off by telling you all to ask yourselves a series of fairly straight forward questions. I want you to take a look at you’re, any hand and ask your selves “Who’s hand is this?” Do the same with your other hand, and now both legs and your arms if you would like. If I am not mistaking the answer to all your questions are mine right. They are your hands, legs, and arms. What I am trying to get through to you all today is that your body is your body and that a person should be able to profit of his or her own body if done in a safe and controlled way.…
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1. John and Amy Howard, founders of Carrot Ink, recycle to save energy. (example) Instead of creating just ink cartridges that are used up quickly, the Howards also manufacture energy-saving and money-saving replacement kits.…