The light weight of plastic packaging helps reduce transportation costs. It takes fewer trucks to transport plastic compared to metal or other materials. Fewer trucks mean less fuel usage and therefore less air pollution from truck exhaust. Recycling plastic containers helps to conserve landfill space and natural resources and to cut down on pollution. Since the number of landfills continues to diminish‚ keeping plastic containers out of landfills is important. Plastics do not degrade in
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Recycling‚ Reusing‚ and Reducing Samantha Yerkes Student Recycling‚ Reusing‚ Reducing The amount of garbage that fills our trash each year is astounding. Did you know that each individual in the United States throws away 4 pounds of trash each day? That is 1‚460 pounds each year. Americans are the number one trash offenders in the world. Americans do not dispose of all its garbage properly and efficiently. In the State of Iowa 1.2 Million‚ tons of materials are recycled in Iowa each year
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9/27/2010 Recycling should be mandatory Producing electricity is the number one cause of air pollution in the United States. Lighting is up to 35% of America’s electricity consumption. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a one hundred-watt bulb for twenty hours‚ a computer for three hours‚ or a TV for two hours. Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. All of these are reasons why recycling should become a mandatory process
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Research Paper: Should Recycle be mandatory? February 15‚ 2011 Should recycling be mandatory? Is recycling really going green with the environment? Or is recycling just a way to go for green material known as dollars? Recycling is a method in which materials that are not used anymore by people are processed in order to transform them in useful products. In the recent years‚ recycling has caused a lot of controversies whether if it is a good way to go green and help planet’s health or if it
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Economic Factors of Recycling The environmental factors of recycling are wildly known but little is discussed of the economic factors‚ recycling does provide benefits and adds value to an economy. For example‚ in the United States of America‚ these benefits stem from the jobs‚ products manufactured and sales generated by the recycling industry. National recycling efforts are responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of the US every year. The Economic Factors of Recycling Increased Wages:
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The Advantages and Drawbacks of Recycling （Synthesis） Nowadays‚ recycling has become an indispensable part of people’s lives. It is necessary for the industry‚ the society‚ and the environment today. However‚ recycling is not a fad‚ and it has a long history when it can be recorded. Before the days of mass production‚ households recycled their material possessions as a need of economic. Recycling has been one of the growth industries of the 1970s‚ 1980s‚ and 1990s‚ and become one of the best
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the two terms “fashion icon” & “fashion leader” in the past decade while these two new words appear frequently in the fashion world today. However‚ it seems that these have their own significance and concept in two different cultural perspectives. The propose of this research is to answer the question what does the “fashion icon” & “fashion leader” mean respectively in U.K. and China and what causes the difference understanding of it‚ which may influence the development of the fashion world in the
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Eng 101-01 28 November 2012 Garbage and Recycling Wastes Today cleanliness is the most important thing in both the homes and in a society. Taking care of the environment is a big responsibility. Since disposing of garbage and wastes maintains sanitary in the envorinment‚ everybody should also care about the beauty of their surroundings. Home garbages and some other solid wates should certainly be cleared out and be burned to keep the weather of the environment clean‚ however it is not always
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should try to help better the world we live in! B. We can do this by recycling. (story) I never recycled until I had an English teacher who educated my class about recycling. C. Everyone must make a stronger effort to recycle because it is beneficial in so many ways! D. The reasons are: 1. Recycling benefits the environment 2. Recycling benefits the people and wild life 3. How to recycle in three steps II. Body A. Recycling helps the environment in so many ways! 1. John and Amy Howard
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Can you imagine how long we’ve been recycling for? People around this world have been recycling for many years. Many Americans decide to throw trash away wherever they want. We are dealing with a major problem in this world that we will also be facing for many more years if Americans are still doing the same as they were years ago. Recycling is very important because one of the biggest problems it can cause is pollution. Recycling can save many Americans money just by throwing away some trash where
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