recycling is a good thing because if you take your trash to a landfill it’ll just sit there for years. But if you recycle your cans and things like that you can just reuse them. But I also think recycling is bad because you don’t know where the can came from and you don’t know where it’s been sitting‚ or how long it’s been sitting there. One detail in the paragraph says "The goal is to reduce the amount of waste we add to the county landfill by 90% over the next five years." I think that is a great
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Paper and plastic bags are roughly equal in pros and cons. While they are convenient addictions‚ they both gobble up natural resources and cause significant pollution. Get basic design benefits of a paper and plastic bag with our award-winning replacements - the ACME Bags Workhorse (the plastic bag replacement) and the EarthTote (the paper bag replacement). Same brilliant basic design as their wasteful relatives‚ but designed to be used thousands of times. ISSUE 1: ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
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The government must give incentives for textile companies to change their businesses through the better. The government must do this in two different ways‚ grants and tax incentives. This way companies could save money‚ or receive money in return for changing their ways. Companies would change because it would save them money. They would receive tax incentives or breaks‚ meaning they would have to pay less. Also‚ grants would pay the companies for changing to have recycling programs‚ safer agriculture
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planet. In order for any change to be made we must initiate the change ourselves. Trash pick up teams on major roads and highways are effective ways of trash clean up‚ but is it enough? The waste on planet earth is becoming very overwhelming. With landfills filling up to the brink of an overload‚ we are running out of places to store our trash. There is legitamately no more room for myself to waste. I recycle all of my plastics and aluminums to do my part. It takes everybody not just one man can clean
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Sustainability Assignment 1. What are the issues surrounding the idea that landfills are closing? Please discuss issues in terms of perceptions‚ reality‚ circumstances‚ and functionality. There are several issues surrounding the idea of landfills closing. There exists the idea that landfills have been closing at a rate that would not allow for the proper disposal of trash. However‚ the case of landfills closing is much more complicated than an initial glance at the data may seem. First‚ it was
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While the combustion process can generate toxic air emissions‚ these can be controlled by installing control equipment such as acid gas scrubbers and fabric filters in combustors. Combustion of solid waste can help reduce amount of waste going to landfills. It also can reduce reliance on coal‚ one of the fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases when burned (U.S. EPA‚
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then 1‚800 people and more than 81 billion dollars of damage occurred‚ according to hhs.gov. Possibly a more important reason to recycle is because it will reduce pollution risks in our society. The most obvious way is by keeping waste out of landfills‚ which introduces contaminants and other toxins into groundwater systems. Recycling also keeps materials out of incinerators‚ which pollutes the air and create severe ash residue‚ which is very dangerous for the health. Furthermore‚ it reduces financial
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These days cardboard is being used more and more for storing a wide variety of goods in‚ from being used to ship fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables in‚ through to long term storage of documents. Where as once only wooden crates were used to ship fruit in such as apples and bananas‚ a huge amount of fruit is now shipped in cardboard boxes. The reason for this is they are very easy to recycle as they can simply be folded flat when they have been used‚ where as older wooden fruit crates had
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT DOCUMENT PART A VINYL CHLORIDE OCTOBER 1990 State of California i Air Resources Board Stationary Source Division ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance of the following people at the Air Resources Board who contributed to the preparation and review of this document: Pacita Ayala‚ Rich Miller‚ Lynn Baker‚ Gary Yee. Barbara Fry. Charles W. Emrson. Janis Fitzell. Roland Hwang. and Mike Poore. Special thanks are extended to the laboratory personnel
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SOLID WASTE PLANNING AND DISPOSAL Service Delivery Training Module 4 of 4 MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PROVINCIAL COUNCILS SOLID WASTE PLANNING AND DISPOSAL Service Delivery Training Module 4 of 4 2008 MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Contents | iii CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 Introduction . . .
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