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- Greetings, I am Ebony Norris a Law Enforcement major at the University District of Columbia. I am the type of person that takes interests in a variety of issues. Mandatory recycling, and more harsh punishments for littering and dumping is one issue that interests me very much. I have chosen to discuss this topic in my English Composition II class because recycling helps to keep the environment free of pollution. Littering and dumping also pollutes the earth. If we had mandatory recycling this would keep drains and sewers flowing more effectively. I look forward in sharing this topic and coming up with a solution to keep our earth safe and clean.
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According to video 1 littering and dumping is illegal. If you were to be caught committing either of these crimes you should be punished. Increasing the fine amount for these illegal acts should eliminate this problem. As you will find in the video, a brief debate about the penalties if this act is committed. For example at the end of the video it states if you litter you will pay a 950 dollar fine, dumping 1000 dollar fine, so don’t become another littering and dumping candidate.
Stop Littering the Ocean
It has been described in video 2 how littering and dumping in the oceans harms the mammals. Many people are unaware of the harm littering and dumping does to the oceans. When polluting the waters with plastic, bottles, and other trash. It leaves our mammal’s sick and most of the time they die, or either choked to death from plastic. In video 2 it shows us a picture of two dead mammals’s wrapped in a net that was thrown in the ocean. Dumping and littering is killing out earth! Let’s save our mammals!
The Truth about Recycling
Some people don’t believe that bottles and plastic is really recycled. In Video 3 it will discuss the truth about recycling. Stated in video 3 the material recovery facility is where the recycles material goes. At this facility they sort the items, and load them up on a machine where they are being clean and formed into other items. Video 3 mentions 1 item, toilet paper. So it is true. Plastic and bottles are really recycled.
People many times will also destroy our earth by dumping in the oceans not knowing the harm it does to the water distribution, and our mammals'. Pictures three and four are some examples of what the oceans and rivers look like when contaminated with trash or recyclable material, but the worse part of it all is how dumping and littering effects our environment. When polluting the oceans with trash I am sure it produces toxics that can kill our mammals', because trash does not belong in the oceans it can be recycled. If trash pollutes the earth, can you imagine what it does to the oceans? Poor mammal's living in there homes full of trash and waste. You have some people that will urinate in the ocean. For example at some beaches people do not always get out to use, the restroom especially kids. However, the same question would come about as to the water in our home toilets. So maybe that’s not a to big of a deal on our oceans but, look at sandy point beach the worse beach ever full of so much trash. The water is dark brown. Ocean water should never be that color, poor jellyfish! Not only that but it is believed that mammal's can become blind, or chough from some of the trash dumped into our oceans. Not only does the water become polluted and kill our mammals', but what about the water supply for humans. Does it affect use when oceans are polluted with trash? Let us take advantage of the recycling places around the earth in order to have a safe environment.
The first decline of neatness on our environment is how people do not recycle. Mandatory recycling should go into effect to help keep our environment free of pollutions and toxic chemicals that can harm our bodies and earth. There are many things you can recycle the two major things people are known to recycle are plastic, and paper. Both are important items to recycle, but the one we as humans strongly feel should be recycled is paper. Recycled paper can be used for children school books, paper towels, toilet paper and more. When paper is not recycled, many times you have to cut down trees to create things like napkins notebook paper and so forth. Why should we have to harm the earth by cutting down trees just because our citizens damage the world with trash? Society today has become very lazy, and insensitive to the world we live in as well as how there actions can later harm us. Many times the objects that are recycled us as humans used them in our everyday life. When we go out to restaurants with our families, we need napkins, toilet paper in public and home restrooms, grocery bags, sandwich lunch bags, etc. Therefore, recycling is very important let us stop this decline and become apart of recycling to have a heathery world. When doing so it creates a clean safe environment for generations to come.
Dumping and littering has been a decline of neatness on our environment. You can always catch someone throwing trash on the ground walking from the subway, and out the window of a car. Not only do people litter but some people will dumb trash from home in a wood like area because the trash man doesn’t come for another two days. This is a huge decline on our environment, which calls for stronger penalties and fines, in order to keep our earth safe. If they enforced the laws for littering and dumping in a sterner manner this issue would decrease tremendously. With this being said, mandatory recycling should go into effect to decrease the littering and dumping in our environment, which in time will reduce the amount of toxic waste deposited on the earth, and reduce global warming.