Can We Say "NO" To Recycling

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It is an argumentative essay. It shows the pros and cons of recycling.BUT there is one big problem the Works Cited(Documentation Citation) is Lost. Went to Distinction. Showed it to the next class .

Dr. Nadia El-Kholy.

English 113.

Tamer Wadid Shalaby.

Final Draft Paper.

Can We Say 'NO' To Recycling

Lately the earth's capacity to tolerate exploitation and absorb solid wastes disposal has diminished, due to excess trashing. People dispose lots of stuff, and simply do not care. Therefore scientists found out a way to reuse things and that process was called 'recycling'. This new approach seemed quite successful at the beginning, until its true identity appeared. Recycling first started as man's best friend, people were intrigued by this new phenomena. What could be better than using things that were already used. Recycling has been very useful especially that man is constantly consuming, burning up, wearing out, replacing and disposing at an alarming rate.(Durning

1992). However, unfortunately recycling has proven that it is quite costly. Although recycling of wastes material solves the problem of garbage disposal at landfills, and saves resources, it does nevertheless entail large hidden costs in collecting, sorting and manufacturing; therefore, it is necessary for the government to overcome such problems of recycling to be worth while and for manufacturers and consumers to consume less.

Recycling has proven its efficiency in solving the problem of garbage disposal at landfills1. By the accumulation of garbage throughout the years, space available for garbage has largely diminished. In the states for example almost 67% of their waste stream ends up in landfills.(Scott 25). This has in fact increased the price of disposal. As Kimball stated 'tipping fees' at landfills, is so often prohibitive(3), and some cannot find landfills to dump their garbage. It can cost up to $158...