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    Recycling Plastic

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    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 landfills. Therefore‚ containers you throw away will be taking up landfill space hundreds of years from now. Making plastic products from recycled plastic also reduces air and water

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    Is Pollution the Death of Us? The world has been faced with many problems and pollution is one of them. Most people living on earth do not fully understand that polluting the earth comes with a lot if consequences. Imagine waking up in a world where garbage mask the streets. Imagine in a world walking out of your home into knee deep waste of old food‚ plastic‚ aluminum wrappers‚ old furniture‚ rusty metals‚ dirty old clothing and hazardous chemicals. As if we were pushing your way through like you

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    Audience Analysis

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    needs of my audience by showing them the major environment dangers of not recycling. By doing this I hope to make them see that little effort is necessary and that the landfills will be safer without all these unnecessary trash. In addition‚ I addressed the fact that with little effort from all of us by recycling we can reduce landfills‚ save energy‚ protect wildlife‚ helping our climates problem‚ and finally help our economy. To gain more insight on my audience I did some research on people of relatively

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    Why Is Recycling Bad

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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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    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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    Tax Incentives

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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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    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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    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

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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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