Plastic recycling

Using Landfills vs. Recycling: Which Is More of a Waste? The method of using landfills to dispose of waste has been used for many centuries. The trend of recycling has been a growing alternative process in the past few decades. With the average person generating more than 4.3 pounds of waste each day, it is important for people to understand which method will serve as a viable procedure for a more sustainable world (Center for Sustainability & Commerce ). Yet, these two methods are known to…

often hear of zero plastic campaigns and may even find many stores that have implemented a no plastic system in their stores. These is because one of a major cause of pollution is the littering of plastic and the increasing plastic problems affecting everone around the world. Plastic has been known to help us in a lot of ways as it is used as a convenience such as packaging food, plastic bottles, wrapper, disposable forks and even as to contain all our groceries in one plastic bag. It is easy to…

“Bag It” criticizes the production and implementation of “needless” plastics in the modern age. Jeb Berrier takes the viewer around the world, following plastic waste from stores and homes to it’s final destination in growing landfills and open ocean waters. He strives for consumers to partake less in buying or using products with excessive plastics like toy containers, milk caps, and what he states as the worst offender, the plastic bag. Iɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ This analysis will review the credibility…

reduce. Recycling, the solution to the waste dilemma, provides a plausible reality in which individuals can contribute to reusing materials in hopes that they will better off the planet. Materials in which individuals are trashing, are decomposing into gasses harmful to the atmosphere, and are contaminating local water sources. Because of this, individuals will need to actively participate to save the…

Notwithstanding adding perilous components to the environment, reusing prospect can be lost to the lacking transfer of e-waste. According to the EPA about, “all of electronic waste has some type of ecological material which can incorporate glass, metal, and plastic" (E-cycling). Every year tons of pounds of electronic waste and unwanted materials are being disposed of in landfills around the world. Agencies receive e-waste products like computer, televisions, digital cameras, cell phones and…

When you think of the word, you think, why are we talking about trash? Throwing away trash is something we do without thinking. If it is plastic or paper, we may recycle it, but not all the time Trash is one of those topics that Americans constantly say they want to improve the way they dispose of it, but they never act on it. You will always see attempts of recycling bins in buildings but at the end of the day if the trash can is closer, the bottle is being put in it. It is a subject where we…

El Camino College acquires large amounts of money from students, however, our drinking fountains are dirty, when they work. Private companies on our campus force students to purchase their $1.50 bottle of Dasani since students wish to have clean drinking water. Where is all the money from bottled water purchases and how does a public institution require students to pay money for access to clean drinking water? It costs less than one cent per gallon of water from the Los Angeles Department of…

Americans do not deal with the problem. Waste disposal involves a system that manages waste from its origin to its final disposal. The forms of waste management include incineration/burning, burial at landfill sites or discharge at sea/lake/river, and recycling. According to Michael Armbrister’s article “Solid Waste Disposal in Southwest Virginia: A Regional Solution,” “The United States alone produces more than 230 million tons of solid waste a year.” However, the amount of solid disposal of…

The most recent audit was collected in the Spring 2015 quarter. 79% of the waste was trash, 14% aluminum and plastic, 3% was composed of paper, 3% composted, and less than 1% of glass. The Winter 2015 audit showed 78% being trash, 12% aluminum and plastic, 6% paper, 4% compost and 1%…

Recycling in the United States has been a huge deal over the years. Like the passage states we the citizens of the US do have these green, blue, and black trash cans. Us average people dont always take into consideration the color of the trash can we just throw stuff in. However not everything we throw in is just trash. Most things for example food, such as apples, bananas, oranges, all these different fruits and vegetable help plants and other things grow. One of the main issues i can…