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| All US Citizens Should Be Required To Recycle |
| Our landfills are filled with materials that are recyclable- according to Paper Retriever, 40% of landfill volume is paper, a recyclable item. If we weren't so lazy and jus sorted out the main objects, we could be saving land for other uses- businss, pleasure, parks, schools, and more. The recycling process would be free to citizens, no money involved. |
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Couldn't disagree, I thought Americans were quite good in the league table at recycling.
We aught to be like the it was during WW2, and treat everything as usable. A trend I dislike is the
use of plastic for almost everything. So the manufacturers have a lot to answer for. |
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It helps with the economy, and it helps save the land. It's important for the future, and it's
really not that hard to sort through a bunch of garbage and leave it to better use than letting it
take up space in a landfill. |
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All citizens should be required to recycle because it is true that the landfills are filling up and
so many people use products that aren't biodegradable. The city I live in actually gives you a
discount on your utilities if you recycle which is incentive for my city to recycle. More cities
should be like this. It would make our earth a much more healthier one. |
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Recycle, in any way you can in any shape or form. It will always be a help, and your earth will love
you for it ^_^ |
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Required by law - no. Required by the disposal companies then yes. We don't even fine people for
littering in the US - I can't see us finding the resources for a recycling police, the regular
police can't handle their own jobs because crime rates are so bad.
We live in the country and are allowed to burn trash. The problem with that is that some people are
too ignorant to know what NOT to burn because some materials pollute the air worse than they do the
landfills. We use a weekly dumpster service and only burn papers from my office. We don't burn
magazines and some sales papers because of the inks that are toxic while burning.
Right now we have a huge pile of tires that were on the land when we purchased it. We have been
trying to get rid of them for years but the agencies who handle this type of disposal charge per
tire after the first two. So each year we get rid of about 8 tires. I notice all these playgrounds
that have chipped up tires under the swings and other playsets and so I thought I would find a
company that made this for playgrounds and they would take the tires from us - NOPE! They won't
take them from a family, only from a business that uses the tires. It's stupid rules like that that
are destroying this country. Very often it is the environmentalist who CAUSE the problems in the
first place by creating these stupid rules or laws that prohibit the government from doing what is
right for humanity. What is right for the earth is what usually gets tangled up in a mass of
paperwork and laws and remains dormant until a bigger problem arises...when it's too late - THAT is
when the US government decides to take action - long after when they should have. |
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Definitely, yes.
We all do it in Europe, otherwise we get FINED
so you Americans get it off lightly, believe me.
In Germany, people get PAYED TO RECYCLE.
How cool is that =) |
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RECYCLING should be something everyone should do. Not only paper but other materials as well. We now
have the technology to free landfills completely- concrete, metal, glass, and convert these
worthless pieces of junk into natural gas. Why don't we use this technology- ask the government. |
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 Vlad  04 Jun 2008 14:29
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Not only the US should recycle the whole earth every citizen should recycle so the whole world would
be better and we would slow down Global warming |
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I agree, this should help boost up the economy, we waste so much stuff and
it is so hard to dispose of certain items
that it seems costly. |
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Exactly! Then our planet will become healthier. We could stop the loss of some items too. |
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Yes, yes, yes The USA has so many landfills today I may not have facts on this but a small
percentage of it may be aluminum products even though we have the power and energy to recycle them
and that I can't stand. |
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Saving the environment is the best thing we can do. |
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Recycling means using an article or a substance till the extent it is a usable and after that
turning it into a resource for manufacturing another product. This generates a huge raw material
without any cost for various industries. Recycling aims at saving resources for the future
generations. The commonly recycled materials are paper, metal,glass and plastic. Moreover this can
reduce litters increasing the neatness of the parks, roads and other public places. It prevents the
emission of harmful greenhouse gases and reduces water pollution. Energy conservation is another
motto of reclycling. It can cut down the requirement of new landfills. Recycling, as an industry,
can be helpful to reduce the socio-economic problem significantly by creating huge job vacancies. In
United States people are becoming aware of the benefits of recycling.Hence laws are passed and the
process is made free for citizens to increase the awareness. |
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It would be a good idea, just making it work is the only issue. However, if we could find a way to
get people to abide by it, I'm totally for it. |
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Yes, There isn't a downfall towards it, It helps every way possible so it should be done. Everyone
talks about it but never does it, if it is law then it will solve everyone's problems |
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There is no good reason not to do this. If the recycling service is integrated with the rubbish
collection service, it simply requires just a little more effort on the part of each householder to
separate rubbish into a few different categories at the time of disposal. Many countries have
already done this for quite some time and, frankly, any country that isn't doing this by now is just
being selfish and irresponsible. |
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All US citizens and citizens from all other countries in the world should be required to recycle.
Recycling is very important for the future of our planet. It is not hard to separate your trash and
recycle items that can be recycled. It is something that will save money, time, and effort and in
the long run could possible end up saving our Earth. Many areas in the US already require it.
However, it should be made into a global law that everyone recycles paper, plastic, aluminum, and
more. Recycling is a very mature and responsible thing to do for your community and for your planet. |
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In many countries, households are requried to recycle now. It's a good thing as long as it does not
go extreme (i.e. In Japan, household wastes are required to divide into more than 20 kinds to
recycle, which becomes quite a burden). |
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Requiring citizens to recycle is not a fanciful notion at all. In fact, most major municipalities in
Canada have required that residents sort through their garbage and recycle papers, boxes, jars and
bottles for well over a decade. Residents are provided with a green or blue coloured box (depending
on their borough or municipality) and a recycling truck comes by once or twice a week to collect
this material.
In these municipalities, residents are normally required by law to recycle. Placing recyclable
material in their garbage is considered to be an offence and may incur a fine. In some cases,
inspectors do walk the streets and they may check this, but it remains quite rare. The majority of
residents have become perfectly accustomed to recycling and are not inconvenienced by this at all. |
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I am FOR creating a new arm of law enforcement, Green Ops, whose mission is to search through all
tax payers trash cans in search of recyclable material. If any is found, all property, including
children, of those responsible will be seized and auctioned off. The revenues created will be used
to support a media campaign aimed at increasing the mandate of the Green Ops. |
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We could help save land and make our Earth greener for future generations. Plus, it's a very
profitable thing for the economy. |
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