...of the world’s garbage, states the Recycling Coalition of Utah. Recycling is defined as the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. Recycling can make such a big impact on the environment. According to BYU Idaho University Operations, if every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. They also state that Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which get thrown away! People should seriously start recycling because it reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills, conserves natural resources, and helps sustain the environment for future generations. On one hand, many people...
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...------------------------------------------------- Course Syllabus FP/101 Foundations of Personal Finance Course Start Date: 08/13/12 Course End Date: 10/14/12 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Carol Ward, MBA, DBA cward123@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) ciward123@yahoo.com (Personal) (901) 270-9434 (Central Standard Time) Facilitator Availability Dr. Ward is available from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Central Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Sunday for my family. During the week, I am online most of the time during that 9 a.m.-9 p.m. time...
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...Fact or Fiction? The trucks that collect recycling burn more energy and produce more pollution than recycling saves. Fact or Fiction? All the paper, plastic, metal and glass dumped in recycling bins has to be painstakingly (and expensively) sorted by hand. Fact or Fiction? Thanks to sky-high prices of raw materials, cities are getting rich by selling recyclables. Lay of the Land (No pun intended!) What & Why Recycle? Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to: • • • • • Prevent the waste of potentially useful materials, Reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, Reduce energy usage, and air pollution (from incineration) Reduce water pollution (from land filling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and Lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production Why is it important? • Saves Energy • Saves Land Space • Saves Money • Reduces Air and Water pollution • Creates Jobs • Preserves Wildlife • Fewer trees cut down to make virgin materials or to make space for landfills → habitat for wildlife remains It is complicated... http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/environment/importance-recycling/ But important … Supply & Demand National Benefits – Public Goods 1980 to 2008 Solid Waste Generation per person 4.50 lbs 33% Recycling Rate < 10% 3.66 lbs Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in United States: Facts & Figures for 2008; US EPA National Benefits...
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...Mandated Recycling in Communities Jay Oncher ENG/147 November 16, 2015 Annie Oakes Mandated Recycling in Communities Americans cannot continue our consumerist lifestyle without getting covered by garbage and exhausting the earth’s resources. (Arms 2008, para 5). Population growth in America over the last ten years has caused our landfills to become overfilled and overpriced. Communities in America are using more and more natural resources. Non-renewable natural resources like minerals and fossil fuels form extremely slow and do not naturally form in the environment. If these resources are depleted completely this could cause problems for future Americans. The United States is growing in population and so is the trash we throw out causing pollution and hazardous materials soaking into the earth. Even though Americans have freedom of choice, recycling should be mandated. There are many benefits that the Americans in the United States would see if recycling was mandated. Americans could see a financial gain both individually and as a community. If individuals have things like cell phones or ink cartridges, there are companies that will buy these products back to refurbish and resale. Aluminum cans are one of the most valuable things in your trash bin. Aluminum cans are the only packing material that will cover the cost of reproducing itself, but also its collection process. Our communities will start to see a financial benefit because there will be a reduced cost of waste...
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...| The affects of Curbside Recycling | | | Kristen Grycza | 9/23/2012 | | Curbside recycling has increased in the last decade, as awareness of our surroundings continues to grow. Many Americans have begun recycling, but few realize the impact that is made, on the environment, and the economy. “As EPA’s Recycling Economic Information Study (158 pp, 1701K) points out, recycling industries not only offer higher paying jobs than the national average, they also prevent communities from disposing of valuable commodities in landfills.” Curbside recycling has become so popular that some towns require it. As participation in curbside recycling grows, the amount of solid waste that goes to landfills and incinerators is decreased. Some people predict that participants in curbside recycling may continue to grow, making landfills a thing of the past. Recycling programs across the United States have changed dramatically in the past forty years. The environmental movement in the 1970s started awareness and brought the ideas of conservation and environmental protection into public awareness. The idea of recycling and reusing waste began to materialize at this time. Initial recycling programs were modest. They were mostly made up of businesses and individuals selling used commodities for reprocessing...
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...discuss how the United States dispose of electronic waste, how electronic waste is made on a daily basis, and the reasons we have so much electronic waste. This paper will also discuss the problems with e-waste in the world and how our country will benefit from recycling of e-waste and how recycling will help in creating new greener jobs in the future. Electronic Waste 3 Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a term that we use for electronic products that have become obsolete, unwanted products that have essentially reached the end of its life (Denga, 2008). Technology has become so advance at such a rate that many devices become trash even after a short time. This is due to the fact that many companies are constantly coming up with new electronic ideals faster than they can create one product they usually have another one on the market. Many electronic devices that we use on an everyday basis become trash after a few years of use by the customer. The term “old electronic” in fact is one of the reasons that contribute to e-waste such as DVD players being replaced by Blu-ray players and VCRs being replaced by the DVD players (Denga, 2008). E-waste is created from devices that may be electronic such as TV’s, PDA’s, CD players fax machines and computers (Antonitis, 2011). Many of these items are being thrown away on a daily basis. The obsolete computers and many other electronic devices are filling landfills across United States. Some of the electronic...
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...Recycling Everyone can take part of save the planet. One of the most contributing ways of saving the planet is by recycling. These three words reduce, reuse, and recycle is talking about how people handle waste, which currently is a big issue in the United States. In today’s society, landfills are overflowing causing serious issues that need to be addressed. Knowing how to address them and how to correct the problem can be an easy process if taught the proper way to do it. Recycling allows today’s society to process used materials, which reduce the consumption of raw materials, energy, pollution, greenhouse emissions, and the need for conventional waste disposal. Recycling is one of the ultimate solutions to reduce the amount of waste that is constantly dumped into our landfills. The United States is the number one trash producing country in the world. (www.nbci.nlm.nih.gov, 2010) The United States have environmentalist groups that are really pushing for stricter laws regarding recycling. These environmentalist groups do not only want to make it a choice but demand that every American household must recycle in order to reduce the amount of waste that is entering American landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 32.1% of solid waste is recycled, 13.6% is incinerated, and 54.3% end up in landfills, yet some believe that approximately 90% of all solid waste is recyclable. (Chase, Dominick, Trepa, Bailey,& Friedman, 2009) (www.lwvmd.org) Solid waste...
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...being an apocalyptic wasteland where war and famine have brought our race to its knees. Unlike the previous case no doubt a future where mankind’s arrogance, greed, short sightedness doomed the future of our race and planet. What could lead to such a drastically different scenarios? Where did these hypothetical futures diverge? Why did one path succeed with today’s problems and the other not? What it boils down to in my opinion is a successful management of resources. Having taken that second of reflection I realized recycling at its core is nothing more than a management of resources. Not only that, I believe it has the potential to solve many of the challenges we face today, while pointing us toward the path of a successful future. Therefore, I feel a drastic increase in community and national recycling could exponentially improve our unity with other citizens, bolster our economy, and protect our environment while strengthening it at the same time. Recycling Overhaul: Path to a Prosperous Future Have you ever stopped for a second to reflect on a piece of cinema? Or more to the point reflected on an envisioned portrayal of mankind’s future? Well recently I have and two different depictions greatly jump out in my mind. First being the dystopian society of peace and security, or one in which mankind is traveling the universe and accomplishing miraculous...
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...ENG 170 Lisa Tellor-Kelley November 9, 2015 Mandatory Recycling In The United States. The average American can produce around 1600 pounds of trash each year. If you break that down, that’s about 29 pounds of trash in a week and about 4.4 pounds in a single day. What person wants to live somewhere they are surrounded by trash? If everyone in the United States did their part in recycling then this would not be as serious. Once society makes a stand and work together to solve this, it can be solved sooner rather than later. Sea creatures, wildlife and humans have all been affected by people that do no recycle. There should be a law in the United States that makes recycling mandatory in every state. By people not recycling has made a drastic change in the climate. Trees have been cut down and new resources are in a huge demand because of people not recycling. After the trees are cut down, fuel is needed to transport the trees and to make new paper. When the fuel is being used it gets burned and being released as a greenhouse in the environment. Sometimes, papers do not reach landfills and the papers that do not reach the landfills should be processed. Even if it does reach the landfills, it should remain there until the earth absorbs and processes it. Even though paper disintegrates faster than Styrofoam and plastic, instead of consuming new paper, just recycle the old one paper. Human waste is the reason landfills are so overcrowded. The paper that does not get recycled gets...
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...Recycling Environmental Awareness In society today more and more people are becoming conscious of environmental issues such as recycling. People recycle everything from paper to computer hardware. For this assignment I examine two articles both with similarities and differences on the actual benefits of recycling on the environment. .According to an article in the National Geographic, (Zeller.Jr., 2008, para. 1). “Consider the true cost of a product over its entire life—from harvesting the raw materials to creating, consuming, and disposing of it—and the scale tips dramatically in recycling’s favor”. The article in National Geographic uses data from recent studies to prove recycling is better for the environment because it keeps trash from going into landfills where it sits buried or burns and emits toxic fumes into the environment. Even though it cost recycling companies more money to recycle one’s trash than to make any financial profits, and the large trucks that pick up the recyclables will emit carbon dioxide and require more consumption of energy, it still makes more sense to recycle considering all the word’s trash. “The short answer is: Yes” (Zeller.Jr., 2008, para. 1). An interesting point in this article is that the United States is behind on making production companies responsible in sharing the costs for the recycling burden “extended producer responsibility,” such as in Europe known as The Packaging Waste Directive of 1994. In Europe production companies...
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...baby monitors, certain kinds of watches, and cell phones—in other words, anything digital that’s no longer being used. Added together, this information-age detritus makes up the fastest growing category of waste in the U.S. and the more complex the circuitry, the more complicated the equipment’s disposal, since electronics contain toxic substances such as mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and beryllium that pose a hazard to both humans and the environment. VIEW POINT There are a lot of view points for the case “E-waste”. They are as follows: * In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. * In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. * A recent study in Sweden found out that families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought. * Jonathan Bloom, the creator of the website Wastefood.com believes that recent events suggests things might be improving: * “The fundamental thing that I’m fighting against is, ‘why should I care? I paid for it,’” Mr. Bloom said. “The rising prices are really an answer to that.” * A second article by Mr. Bloom shows that the amounts involved are truly...
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...What is Recycling? Recycling is a pretty simple concept: take something that isn't useful anymore and make it into something new instead of just throwing it away. It can be anything from recycling old paper into new paper, to making an old hubcap into a decorative birdbath. In reality, recycling can get pretty complex -- how it interacts with our environment, our politics, our economy and even our own human behaviour patterns will play a major role in the future of our planet. What is Recycling? Recycling can take many forms. On a small scale, any time you find a new use for something old, you're recycling. One example is making old cereal boxes into magazine holders Recycling becomes more important on larger scales. At this level, used consumer goods are collected, converted back into raw materials and remade into new consumer products. Aluminum cans, office paper, steel from old buildings and plastic containers are all examples of materials commonly recycled in large quantities, often through municipal programs encouraging bulk household collections. It's rare for a recycled product to be exactly the same as the original material from which it was recycled. Recycled paper, for example, contains ink residue and has shorter fibers than virgin paper (paper made from wood pulp). Because of this, it may be less desirable for some purposes, such as paper used in a copy machine. When a recycled good is cheaper or weaker than the original product, it's known as down-cycling...
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...Domestic Recycling * Conclusions Introduction Electronic waste (e-waste) is a term that is used loosely to refer to obsolete, broken, or irreparable electronic devices like televisions, computer central processing units (CPUs), computer monitors (flat screen and cathode ray tubes), laptops, printers, scanners, and associated wiring. Rapid technology changes have led to increasingly large e-waste surpluses. Electronic devices, particularly older units in use today or in storage, contain a host of hazardous constituents such as lead, mercury, or chromium, as well as plastics treated with brominated flame retardants. The presence of these constituents has led to end-of-life (EOL) management concerns from state and federal environmental agencies, environmental organizations, and some Members of Congress. E-waste is essentially unregulated at the federal level—meaning it can be disposed of with common household garbage in municipal solid waste landfills (the primary disposal method) or incinerators. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that landfill disposal of ewaste is safe. However, EPA’s preferred method of EOL management is reuse or recycling. Further, state and local waste management agencies have expressed concerns regarding the potential cumulative impact to human health and the environment of landfilling millions of pounds of e-waste. As a result, individual states have begun to enact their own e-waste management requirements. To date, 23 states and New...
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...on trying to clean up cities and towns it still has a long way to go. The United States has a growing problem with resource consumption, Cities and towns are having problems with handling large capacities of waste. Hazardous waste and construction waste has grown in this dilemma also. With the methane emissions increasing as well hazardous liquids contamination seeping out of the landfills more computers means more plastic this causes your city and town landfill tax to increase to keep these problems under control. According to the U.S census bureau say there are 309,941,768 people in the us, a growth of 3.3 million people a year. With the average 4 person house hold accumulating 1 ton of waste per year, this could be a very serious problem for the ecosystem and the earth as well. The fact that pollution is on our highways, in our lakes and streams at the beaches and even even on top of Mt Everest is that litter effects both living and nonliving it has no prejudice. Litter effects use as a society in a lot of ways. Litter can be a safety hazard on the road from a survey done by green eco services(2009) twenty five thousand car accidents happen every year because of litter related conditions on the highway which in turn effects insurance companies to raise their premiums. Forty eight percent of Americas admit to littering. Taxpayers pay to pick up litter in Cities, Counties, States, National Agencies, Forestry’s, Park and Recreation Departments, Prisons, Corporate...
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...paper will be answering. For example, if your general area of interest is social security, a possible research question might ask “How can low-income families save more money if the United States had a reformed social security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, keep in mind that you will need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question for which you genuinely want to know the answer. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad, which covers too much, or too narrow, which covers too little. It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. What is your general topic or area of interest? My general topic is “Recycling”, which is one topic from the list provided in the syllabus. Recycling is an important part of my life, because I care deeply about our environment. I was taught to recycle at a young age, and was somewhat shocked to see how careless consumers are here in the United States, and the “throw-away” mentality most consumers have. What is it about your general topic of interest that interests you? I want to know how persistent recycling will make a real difference and how it can make a positive impact on our environment. I also want to uncover what happens with materials that are recyclable, and what the incentives...
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