I think using reusable bags every time I buy groceries will make the world a better place. Plastic tends to fill up landfills and ends up in the ocean where animals eat or get caught in it. Since plastic isn’t biodegradable I think with just my efforts I can make a very small difference. With small steps like this I am helping the environment. My family and I have always used them but since I have been in college it is hard for me to remember to bring them every time I go to the store. Since I do
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believe is that we are wasteful. Leading as the country who produces the most waste in the world‚ we produce about 220 million tons per year. Of this‚ 220 million tons‚ 55% of it ends up in landfills. On the other hand‚ in Sweden they produce about 4.4 million tons of waste‚ and 1% of it ends up in landfills. With the other 99% of waste‚ 50% is recycled and 50% is converted into energy. Sweden actually imports waste from other countries to allow this to continue. Therefore‚ countless foreigners would
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Martin English 111 “The Hidden Life of Garbage” 11 December 2014 Comprehension: 1. She says that landfills are tucked away to avoid people asking difficult questions about the sights they see. 2. The landfill’s “working face” is where the dumping takes place. 3. Rogers believes GROWS is aptly named because it is a mega-fill‚ and continues to grow. 4. The danger of the new state of the art landfills are that if any toxic wastes seeps into the near-by water treatment’s water line the results could
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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
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Cited: “Paper Bags Are Better Than Plastic‚ Right.” Reusable Bag Fast Facts. 21Sep2008 <http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=7>. “Paper Bags In Landfills.” Save The Plastic Bag. 22Sep2008 <http://www.savetheplasticbag.com/readcontent461.aspx>. “Paper Vs. Plastic- The Shopping Debate.” Greenfeet Net. Oct 2002. 19Sep2008. <http://www.greenfeet.net/newsletter/debate.shtml>. “Polychlorinated Biphenyls
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thrown away‚ namely Hong Kong people dumped more than 2‚120‚000 mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moreover‚ City administrators warned that Hong Kong will run out of landfill space in these ten years. As a consequence‚ deforestation‚ large amount of solid and food waste‚ it may lower the quality of air‚ fill up the landfills and have the problem of food shortage. It threats our living environment and living standard. In fact‚ Hong Kong government has implemented some plans to save the environment
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laws to make a national change. Most of our timeworn computers and devices end up in landfills‚ burners or are shipped to foreign continents. Kingsolver often emphasizes the limitations on natural resources and not recycling electronic waste continues to put restrictions to our resources. Because the electronics we use contain toxic chemicals and other dangerous heavy metals‚ when the e-waste is dumped into landfills‚ these toxic chemicals can seep in the soil and pollute our water supplies. This process
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been a well known idea for so many years‚ but now we need it more than ever. Now in the world there are so many problems with the environment like Global Warming‚ toxic waste‚ and not to mention not recycling is very costly but recycling reduces the landfill space‚ helps conserves natural resources‚ and reduces the production of greenhouse gases . When you recycle you also help save animals so the rims of a six pack of soda doesn’t end up blocking a fish’s gills or a plastic bag getting eaten by a turtle
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In a country called Paraguay‚ there is a town known as Cateura. The town is located on a landfill‚ which is an enormous hole in the ground filled with garbage. Three million pounds of garbage are added to the landfill each day. The people of Cateura often search through the landfill to find things they can use. Sometimes they find stuff that is valuable enough to sell. Other times they make things out of the junk they find. This gave one teacher in Cateura an idea. His students had never played
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It would be a great idea to start recycling more than what we already do. It will greatly help us‚ if we do not using as many resources to build new things‚ instead we could use recycled materials to build new things. It would also help with landfills from being overpacked‚ because lets face it all of our trash has to go somewhere. Another important thing that comes with recycling is saving the environment from more polluntants that will hurt our ecosystem. Have you ever used a recycled
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