Plastic recycling

Plastic bags, worth the risk? A lot of states have passed laws that require stores to charge at least 5 cents per plastic bag which has some people fuming. Less 0.2 percent of plastic bags make up world pollution. Do we really need to debate a fee? There is other trash that is being dumped into the ocean, which is bad for the environment. Plastic bags also create jobs for people in factories and if we charge a fee on bags some people would not buy bags. So there should not be a fee on…

difference. You have to make an effort that 's the key” (Caton 140). Thus, she began using cold water to do the laundry, drinking tap water instead of bottled water and turning off lights when they are not in use. Additionally, she began recycling by separating plastic, paper, glass and metal into separate containers located in her garage. These small changes, as she calls them, didn 't disrupt her life. In fact, saved her money while in the process of saving the earth. Consequently, by…

1. Of the different kinds of ecosystem services, you learned about, discuss two that are important in your local area, village, forests and/or nation. Each year in my town, lands are laid bare due to building or running of quarries, subdivisions, roads, clean fills as well as other developments or substantial regions of land are stripped of for plantation. Without proper erosion and sediment management, these actions can lead to accelerated onsite erosion and significantly increased…

commonly known as plastic, is a material consisting of a wide range of synthetic and/or semi-synthetic organics that are malleable/ductile and can be molded into many solid objects. Plastics are typically made of organic polymers (chains of carbon or chains of carbon that have been bonded to other elements such as oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur) having high molecular masses, but often contain other substances. Usually being synthetic, and most commonly made from petrochemicals. Due to plastic…

the most common methods used to reduce waste and should be implemented in every home and the waste that is left should be converted to clean energy through a landfill gas program. While most people consider themselves skillful at conserving and recycling, the truth is that most people take a trip to the landfill more often than they think. First of all, getting rid of waste is very costly, especially if there 's a trash bag in every single home in the United States. According to the…

Plastic is a material that never decomposes back into its original form; this means it lasts forever. While this plastic is laying around it poisons people and mammals, chokes animals to death daily, and is an eyesore on Earth. A decisive action needs to be taken to get the existing plastics removed from the environment and use alternatives to this deadly material… before it’s too late. Plastic is currently the number one most preferred material in today's industrial world; this is posing an…

Many students do not have the opportunity to experience a class that influences their lives, but I was fortunate enough to have such an experience. The subject that has influenced me the most is AP Environmental Science (APES). The class focuses on the world we live in and explains how people’s actions can either harm or benefit the environment. With each chapter, the teacher provided real world examples,along with important analysis, to describe how humans affect their own ecosystems. Such an…

One design was a dress made out of plastic bags filled with floating fish. “I thought it was the perfect contest for my class,” Ms. Farrelly-Moyotl said. “It allows for creative problem solving and encourages students not to have limits. It also lets them express their personalities.” The…

recieve from them as energy storage devices. This issue includes the impacts of mining, producing and dumping of the product which includes the mining of metals like nickel, cobalt and lithium. Batteries are often dumped in landfills and not recycled, recycling batteries can greatly reduce the environmental impact in most cases. The mining of lithium has a negative impact on the environment it is found in and so if there is a community nearby the water can be contaminated. If these batteries…

tarpaulin, making it thicker than an average plastic bag and cannot tear apart easily like a paper bag would. Tarpaulin in nature are water resistant therefore the bags will not be affected by wet products and it will not melt when exposed in the rain unlike paper bags. If food was spilt in the bag it would be easier to clean it off or if the shoes put into it are muddy, cleaning the bag would not be a problem. The tarp bag is supposed to be a promotion for recycling. Even if people do not…