Welcome, Sergey Maydebura!

My introduction of a research paper:

The Decline of Neatness- The State of World Conditions.

The article “The Decline of Neatness” by Norman Cousin was very educative for me. I was highly impresses of how accurate the neatness problem of the modern world was discussed, in spite of fact the article was written 19 years ago. As Norman Cousin said, “People go to all sorts of trouble and expense to look uncombed, unshaven, impressed”. The Decline of Neatness is the biggest problem of the human being. The sloppiness virus has spread to all sectors of society (Cousin 1). This virus had affected our neatness, speech, emotions, stereotypes, respect to each other, and our value of the things. The irresponsible relation to the things has become normal for us. If society is breaking down, as it often appears to be, it is not because we lack the brainpower to meet its demands but because our feelings are so dulled that we don’t recognize we have a problem (Cousin 1). A word “home” had stopped to mean for us anything. Our value of our planet slowly is going down. Manufactures recognize a big market when they see it, and they compete with one another to offer jeans that are made to look as though they’ve just been discarded by clumsy house painters after ten years of wear (Cousin 1). The sociality is absolutely different now and there is no vaccine to treat the whole society of the “Sloppiness Virus”; the only way to treat the virus is an individual consciousness and individual struggle to solve the problems of the decline of neatness, including the most important problem- our relation to the Earth. Every day we receive an opportunity to live on the Earth by consuming lots of its natural resources for our day-to-day being. Even a simple thing as an every-day paper supply can cost us environmental catastrophe. Weekly, people fell million tons of forest, so important resource for the animals and for us, to produce usual things as newspapers, napkins, books, printer papers and so forth. Humans live in the post-industrial era, and now we still do not consume Earth’s recourses right. We destroying our planet by taking its and producing waste. Now we have huge landfills around the World filled up by assorted trash- and we still consuming natural resources to produce new trash. Plastic and glass bottles, newspapers, aluminum cans- almost every used item of our everyday life could be recycled and be reused again. The 21st century must be the century when all people realize the benefits of mandatory recycling as well as the needs of advanced recycling technologies.


My body of a research paper(final):

The Earth’s population faces a big problem now, the problem of climate changing. According to US Environment Protection Agency:
“The Earth's climate has changed many times during the planet's history, with events ranging from ice ages to long periods of warmth.” “Historically, natural factors such as volcanic eruptions, changes in the Earth's orbit, and the amount of energy released from the Sun have affected the Earth's climate.” “Beginning late in the 18th century, human activities associated with the Industrial Revolution have also changed the composition of the atmosphere and therefore very likely are influencing the Earth's climate” (U.S. EPA: Basic Information).
The Industrial revolution brought a lot of harm for the nature. “For over the past 200 years, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, and deforestation have caused the concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases to increase significantly in our atmosphere.” (U.S. EPA: Basic Information). Right now the Earth experiences a problem of extremely high emissions of "greenhouse” gases in the atmosphere. “These gases prevent heat from escaping to space, somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse.” (US EPA: Basic Information). Greenhouse gas by its structure is conducive of sunbeam reflection. Therefore, after a sunbeam is reflected by the Earth, instead of leaving the atmosphere a sunbeam is reflected back to the Earth by emissions of “greenhouse” gases in the air. “Greenhouse gases are necessary to life as we know it, because they keep the planet's surface warmer than it otherwise would be.” (US EPA: Basic Information). But the high emission of “greenhouse” gases in the air causes Global Warming. The fact that the Earth experiences the fast temperature increasing the last century is not fiction. In support of the fast temperature increasing might be the information on the web site of U.S.E.P.A: “The eight warmest years on record (since 1850) have all occurred since 1998, with the warmest year being 2005.” (US EPA: Basic Information). The Global Warming is conducive to destruction of permafrost areas on the Earth. No arguing when all ice on Greenland, North and South Poles melts completely- the Earth will experience a global flood of its territories. The Global Warming leads the World to the disaster day. Human activities had engendered Global Warming and knowing this, humans must find rational solutions to reduce extremely dangerous emission of “greenhouse” in the atmosphere.
Life standards of humans have changed over the last two hundred years. Since the beginning of the industrial Revolution, humans become massive consumers. Large-scale production is one of the main causes of global warming. Most of the scientists predict: if the tempo of polluting stays the same- in the end of this century the Earth will not be livable anymore. Global warming can really change the environment we live in. Already today we can see the harmful effects of global warming. “Observed effects include sea level rise, shrinking glaciers, changes in the range and distribution of plants and animals, trees blooming earlier, lengthening of growing seasons, ice on rivers and lakes freezing later and breaking up earlier, and thawing of permafrost” (US EPA: Basic Information). According to the article Global Warming 101: Costs by William Yeatman “Leading climate alarmists’ claim that global greenhouse gas emissions need to decrease to 60 percent below present levels by 2050 if humans are to avoid catastrophic climate change.” Humans must fight global warming by eliminating its causes. One of the best ways to achieve a good result is mandatory recycling. It is very beneficial for the environment and could fight the problem of global warming complexly. First, mandatory recycling could forcefully reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Second, a gained experience and technology could prevent the problem of global warming in the future.
How could recycling help fighting global warming? Even a simple thing as reduced amount of landfills around the world could really help. Humans live in the era of massive consumption. Massive consumption without recycling results new landfills appearance in the world. Now, we already have millions of landfills around the World, which are badly polluting the atmosphere. All stuff on landfills will stay for hundreds of years until it is reproduced by nature. According to information of web site RecyclingFacts.org- it takes 80-100 years for an aluminum can, 700 years for plastic, and 1000000 years for glass to decompose in a landfill. Technically landfill space is useless because there is no chance to recycle unsorted trash and no chance to clean taken soil completely. Human beings must take action before it is too late or it might happen in the future that a whole continent, for example Australia, would be used as a huge landfill. Continuous increasing of landfills will lead the world to the end. Everyday most of the landfills produce one of the most dangerous “greenhouse” gases- methane.
According to web site of Alaska Environmental Resources Hub- “38.2 percent of our total waste is from paper and paperboard.” If all morning newspapers in the US were recycled for one day, the equivalent of 41,000 trees would be saved and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills (Hamilton County: Recycling reduces our reliance on landfills).Why do we not start to recycle all of the paper we use? It will decrease landfill space and also it helps to reduce emission of greenhouse gas [carbon dioxide] from the air. Carbon dioxide is a result of extremely fast increasing of the global temperature. Every breather on the Earth consumes the air and produces carbon dioxide, but nature can reduce emission of carbon dioxide by natural way. One of the most important natural resource to reduce carbon dioxide emission is forest. Every single tree consumes carbon dioxide and produces clean Oxygen. People, weekly, fell million tons of forest to produce paper. It can cost humans too much, so why should we fell million tons of forest? According to the web site of Baltimore County, Maryland “Making one ton of paper using recycled fiber saves 17 trees, 360 gallons of water, 100 gallons of gasoline, and keeps 60 pounds of pollutants out of the air.” If everyone in the United States recycled all of their newspapers, we could save about 250 million trees every year (Baltimore County Administration: Recycling Facts). 250 million trees every year- imagine how clean the air will be.
The Industrial Revolution began the era of massive pollution. According to USEPA:“In the US, our energy-related activities account for three-quarters of our human-generated greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.” (US EPA: Basic Information). “More than half the energy-related emissions come from large stationary sources such as power plants, while about a third comes from transportation.” (US EPA: Climate Change). A greater part of pollution we get is all about energy we use. We live in the time when “each of us are charged with protecting our environment...” (Louisville Administration: Benefits of Recycling). “According to the US Department of Energy, annual global greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 30.3 gigatons a year by 2050 to reduce emissions by 50 percent by 2050.” (Global Warming 101). We use so much energy to keep our life standards. Is it time to change these standards? Is it time to be more smart and eco-friendly? Mandatory recycling could save a lot of energy. According to the facts of Green GreenStarkville.org recycling is a real energy, natural resource, and environment saver:
“Paper products make up the largest part (approximately 40 percent) of our trash.” “Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper per year, or about 580 pounds per person.” “Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.” “One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.” “Every year more than 900 million trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.” “Every Sunday, Americans waste 90 percent of recyclable newspapers.” “This wastes 500,000 trees!” “Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water.” (GreenStarkville: Paper Recycling).
“At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold.” “Today we produce over 350,000 aluminum cans every minute!” “We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.” “Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.” “Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.” “During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.” “An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!” “There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.” “A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!” “Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours, which is equivalent to a half a gallon of gasoline.” “Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.” (GreenStarkville: Aluminum Recycling).
“Each year, Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups.” “Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour!” “Most of them are thrown away!” “Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!” “Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burring it in an incinerator.” “In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 23 percent.” “That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills.” “Bottled water costs between $1 and $4 per gallon and 90 percent of the cost is in the bottle, lid and label.” “According to the Beverage Marketing Corp, the average American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in 1976.” “In 2006 that number jumped to 28.3 gallons.” “Plastic bottles take 700 years before they begin to decompose in a landfill.” “Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.” “It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water.” “That’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars.” (GreenStarkville: Plastic Recycling).
According to the facts above recycling is very beneficial. First of all, recycling helps to reduce the amount of landfills. Also, recycling saves trees; thereby it prevents an extinction of some species and eco imbalance. It is more eco friendly to make products from recycled materials rather than from raw materials. Recycling is conducive to greenhouse gas decreasing and recycling is a way to save energy, natural resources, and the environment. Also mandatory recycling could create more manufacturing jobs and stimulate the economy. Some people might think that recycling is costly. Yes, it is. But, mandatory recycling could solve this problem by involving more people. If more people recycle- recycle becomes more cost effective. An example of this is the recycling program of New York City. Recycling is a vital component of NYCs 20-year plan to handle our waste in an environmentally sensible, economically viable manner (CENYC: Recycling Facts). According to the website of Council on the Environment of New York City- “Paper recycling makes money for NYC, netting $7.5 million after the costs of collection…” New York City has no landfills, no incinerators yet residents produce 12,000 tons of waste every day (CENYC: Recycling Facts). The NYC recycling program is a good example of how we can start the struggle for the salvation of the Earth.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the present day, the humans brought the Earth into Global Warming. Now we experience so many problems including all kind of new diseases, storms, warming, and so on. If we look back two hundred years we would see that our planet was absolutely different place, a place of human-nature harmony. Humans must do something to cure nature before it is too late. Humans must think of how the next generations will live on the Earth. Humans must assume the cardinal measures to eliminate all of the causes of the global warming. Global warming is all about waste and pollution. So the best way to reduce all of the causes is recycling. Recycling must be mandatory in the 21st century. Imagine the future where the factories will be bigger, where the nature will be more polluted, where storms will be more destructive, and where landfills will take more space than humans- it is the future without mandatory recycling. Since we became massive consumers- the way to save the livable Earth for the next generations is to involve everybody in the recycling process.

Work Cited:
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Cousins, Norman. “The Decline of Neatness.” Time Magazine 2 April 1990.
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“Recycling, USA 2008.” Green Starkville. 2008. Green society of Starkville, MS. 22 Jun. 2009
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“Recycling Facts, USA 2008.” Baltimore County, Maryland. 2008. Administration of Baltimore County. 13
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My video description:

My first video is about cell phone recycling. This video shortly shows recycling technology of one of the biggest cell phone company- Nokia. There are millions of cell phones that are not in use, and they must be recycled. Each cell phone has precious metals which according to the video can be extracted from old cell phones and reused again in electronic production.

My second video is a commercial of Weyerhaeuser- North California’s leading paper recycler. This video does not tell us about some recycling technologies or how our planet had been polluted last 100 years or something sad about our environment- no, inversely this video is kind of funny, and only a reason I decided to add this video is to give some recycling positives to all who watches it. You are never too young to start recycling.

My third video shows how beautiful the Earth and how bad we had polluted it. This video has few beautiful photos of our nature and some ugly pictures of the landfills. During viewing a person can enjoy a beautiful music and this video calls all people to take action of pollution in the World. Save our planet- start recycle.

My picture description:

Since I believe recycling is one of the main ways to keep our planet clean and livable, my collection of ten pictures represents some aspects of recycling. Most of the pictures are bright pictures of recycling logo. I posted logos because they all can give some kind of positive to people, a positive to do recycling. Besides logo pictures, I have two recycling posters-two instructions of what can be recycled. I posted them because I decided that it might be highly educative for people who do not know what to put in a special recycling trash cans. Also, I had posted a picture of a plastic recycling process of a company PIRANHA. My motivation of posting it was a feeling that a person who looks on this picture will be interested of a process what happens to plastic when it is recycled by PIRANHA. First of all, the process starts with a pickup of your trash (plastic) by PIRANHA and then plastic is transported to the PIRANHA factory where it is going to be inspected and sorted. After inspection all plastic is chopped into small pieces and washed by special soap and water and then all plastic is going to be packed and shipped to partners for final processing.

Discussion on THE DECLINE OF NEATNESS, A STEP TO ENVIRONMENTAL HARM.

I believe the World population realizes now all of the harm of the Industrial Revolution. Our planet had been destroying since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the present day. Now, as a result, all population of the Earth is facing tons of problems relating to damaged environment. The air is critically polluted as well as lakes, rivers, and oceans. Every day human’s nuclear plants, cars, and many others things pollute the atmosphere thereby bringing closer a disaster day, the day when the Global Worming will be on its peak. I believe most of the people realize that the “bright” future for the Earth is up to new technologies- technologies of alternative energy. Human beings already had a lot of practice of building eco friendly sources of energy such as hydroelectric plants, wind generators, massive solar energy plants, but humans need more advanced technologies. In conclusion, a want to say that people already have many of new “green” technologies and concepts of new energy sources, and as example, BMW has an advanced eco technology of hydrogen car which produce no pollution but water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuEMNemjfNI).