Waste picker

Introduction Recycling is not common among Americans. That is a problem. Recycling is reusing which saves materials and helps make landfills smaller. Recycling can be done in more than one way. Recycling can be done by reusing a bag. Recycling can be done by throwing away a can in the recycling bin. Recycling can even be done by giving old clothes of yours that don’t fit you to others, or just simple donations. The Effects of Recycling Americans not recycling affects the economy, our nation and…

Initiative will reduce the amount of waste added to the county landfill by 90% over five years, while improving city budget by eliminating the need for a new landfill. This system will be well regulated, monitored, and done in a manner to ensure the city of Gatesburg is doing its part to benefit the planet. In 10 years, the county landfill will be closed if Gatesburg doesn't take action. Gatesburg has already banned the dumping of recyclable construction waste and started a composting…

According to Waste Management, the average American will throw away nearly 600 times their body weight in their lifetime. Furthermore, less than 22% of this waste is recycled. I am here to advocate the importance of recycling, especially in our own community. People of all ages need to make the extra effort to recycle for a multitude of reasons. Recycling helps save the environment, conserves resources, reduces landfill space and saves money. Recycle Across America states that recycling is the…

sustainable community. While U.S residents are already familiar with recycling programs in the local regions, other countries’ recycling methods will be approached to better understand their ways to sustain the environment. In the U.S, the majority of our waste…

trees to make one ton of paper towels, and by doing that 20,000 gallons of water are polluted. In the U.S. we use over 13 billion pounds of paper towels per year and it keeps getting higher as the years go on. There is about 3,000 tons of paper towel waste only in the U.S. To replace the paper towels, we use and discard we use about 51,000 trees per day to replace them all. If all the households in the U.S. used one less 70-sheet roll of paper towels it would save 544,000 trees per…

People hire skips for a variety of reasons. Having a spring clear out, removing an old kitchen or bathroom, wanting to remove lots of garden waste are all reasons why people hire skips. Hiring a skip is a fairly simple process, even more so nowadays with many companies offering the option of booking your skip online. Usually the process is as follows. Book the hiring of your skip from a skip hire company giving them a date and time you would like your skip delivered and the size of skip you…

Trash Talk One Line Pitch: A solution to the littering problem. Business Summary: We’ve come up with a device designed to help people get into the habit of throwing out their trash correctly, and have fun while doing so. We hope to eliminate the littering problem by having a Trash Talk in every home. Customer Problem: Steve was hiking one day when he came upon a trashcan littered with garbage all around its base. Another hiker came by, threw his trash down, and kept on walking. Steve thought…

out the types of things that junk removal companies pick up and also the things that they don't. Most junk removal companies do not receive commercial and hazardous waste. The main types of waste that junk removal agencies pick up are as mentioned below: Paint, Pesticides, Insecticides,…

Nation on Earth” (Kraft). The United States produces “twice as much waste per capita as Western European nations” (Kraft). In 2013, the amount of municipal waste produced annually had a horrific total of 254 million tons, which is 4.4 pounds per person per day (Kraft). Recycling could help us decrease those numbers, thereby helping our planet.…

Document “Waste Land” define the problem of environment and mostly people that weren’t “Lucky” enough and social class differences. There are lots of people work as “pickers” which they pick up the recyclable materials from the Landfill trash and make money based on these “trash” and directly help the environment. One of the artist growing up in a very poor family and now have become success, which he wants to help others and give it back to the society in a form of art. He went to the landfill…