Argumentative Essay On My Apartment Complex

Over the past year of my residence at the Parc Ridge Apartments, there is one key aspect of life at this complex that continues to trouble me. In my opinion, it is unacceptable that my apartment complex does not offer a recycling program for the tenants. I am originally from San Francisco, where we pride ourselves on how green we are. I was surprised to find that a city in the Los Angeles area would be so behind the times when it comes to recycling. In cities like San Francisco or Seattle, the city is so on board with recycling that they have even implemented policies that fine citizens for putting recyclable items into the trash. As an environmentalist, I feel that it is policies like these that will create real change in our world and will help us end the irreparable damage that we have done to our planet. And therefore my proposal is this: to implement a recycling program in my apartment complex. After researching this project, I have come to find that it is not as expensive as one might think. Typically, the waste removal company already in place is able to also pick up …show more content…
It can save the complex a great deal of money on trash bills. As of now, the residents of these apartments create an overwhelming amount of waste. The massive trash dumpsters in our garage overflow with garbage each week. The average cost of trash dumpster pick up is around $20 per dumpster a week as opposed to the $10 it cost to pick up a recycling dumpster. We currently have ten dumpsters in our residence. If five of these trash dumpsters were replaced with recycling dumpsters, the bill for waste disposal would be significantly lower. We could save the complex almost $200 dollars each week, amounting to savings of up to $9,000 per year. The total cost of recycling and trash pickup is vastly lower than the pickup of solely trash, and it does not require any additional pickups that were not already in