The next event I attended was the screening of “Landfill Harmonic”. This film was about a group of children and their families who live in The next event I attended was the screening of “Landfill Harmonic”. This film was about a group of children and their families who live in Cateura‚ Paraguay which is basically a landfill for Asuncion. An environmentalist‚ Favio‚ sets out to try to help the environment by educated people about recycling and waste sorting practices. However‚ he ends up starting
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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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Landfills are growing at an exponential rate in the United States; this is a big concern for many people. Many years ago people just threw their garbage in dumps and forgot about it. Then it started to become a problem as the dumps got fuller and just kept growing. People have to put their garbage somewhere; they produce over 4 pounds of garbage everyday per person‚ that’s about 250 million tons for the country (EPA.gov). The population is growing at a very quick rate also. Some people try to reduce
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Did you know that the average person generates 4 pounds of garbage a day and 1.5 tons a year? And 70% of our dumps are recyclable? This is a huge problem because the landfills are getting full. If they get too full‚ we have to find a new area and pay larger bills. Here in America‚ we only recycle 5% of our plastic products. We used enough bottles to wrap around the Earth 190 times. 5% of that is a very little amount. It takes 47 million gallons of oil to produce enough bottles for the US in one year
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study: Mandur landfills Mandur is a sub-urban village in the vicinity of Bangalore. Once a sleepy village surrounded by mango orchards‚ grapevines and fields of ragi and jowar. Is now a victim of multistory apartments with the relentless expansion of Bengaluru city‚ which is rapidly overrunning Mandur’s landscape. Mandur‚ now known for it garbage landfills. The dumping of municipal waste is the direct effect of rapid urbanization and poorly planned construction. The landfills in mandur are located
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best way to go‚ why throw recyclebles away thats filling up the landfill in Gatesburg. Phoenix Arizona makes appoxametly 500 millian dollars a year by selling its recyclebles. It also will exspand the life of not only Gatesburg landfill‚ but landfills all over America. To start with‚ i have recycled many of times‚ its about the easiest thing i have ever done. So why throw it way support staying green for Gatesburg .it not only saves ur garbage can space‚ it helps the landfills from getting filled
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year‚ not including the 90 million tons created by industry every year. In 1988 over 70% of the landfills were closed‚ the US government then had to figure out how we were going to deal with this huge amount of trash each year. The 4 main solutions they came up with were opening more landfills‚ incineration‚ shipping out of the country‚ and oh yeah Recycling. Three out of these four were very bad‚ both ecologically and ethically. But the fourth one on the other hand was very good‚ it reduced
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Although sugar is seen as the bad guy in today’s food‚ we as humans need sugar as much as any other food or in some cases drugs to live happy and healthy lives. From two different viewpoints Robin Konie and Sarah Richards‚ express their viewpoints on the controversial subject of sugar. No matter what‚ humans need sugar in their daily diets. To be healthy your cells require sugar as a nutrient. “Our cell health is critical to overall health. If the cells are nourished we have the right foundation
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is going on‚ what is happening to our animals in the world. What is poaching? What makes this bad? It is not what makes it bad it is why it’s bad. It is bad because it is illegal‚ it is illegal because it is killing innocent animals‚ it is animal cruelty. Poaching is not only illegal but is cruel to animals‚ but is only illegal in government bought land‚ land owned by the government. The only reason why people started poaching is because tiger pelt and elephant tusks are good money in the BLACK MARKET
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shows on TV about poker each night and even more gambling related sites on the internet. These TV-shows and sites influenc young people and they might get stuck with gambling related issues for their entire life. That’s why I’m going to argue against gambling and why gambling is a bad thing. People have been gambling for hundreds of years‚ so it’s not a brand new thing. What is new though‚ is that gambling has reached its way to younger people and even children. This is what concerns me. Underaged gambling
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