Your Questions About Recycling

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To start this off, I just want to say im not by any means a tree hugger, but we do need to help the environment! OK, I live in a small Texas Town where NOBODY recycles, and I was think, it should be a law that all schools HAVE TO have recycling bins. Just think how much paper and plastic would be recycled if every school in the U.S. recycled, I am in Junior High and I know we get tons of paper-work every day. If all of that paper was recycled we could save BILLIONS of trees, also since plastic doesn’t deteriorate in landfills, it would give us more room for landfills. You may not realize it but we use lots of plastic, for milk, water, ect. Also all the supplies the school get comes in…you guessed it cardboard boxes, if we recycled those it would do wonders for the environment!! What do you think should it be a law for all schools to recycle?

Recycling? even if you don’t answer pleaser read!!!?

Okay well this is truly appalling! Even if your sick of “green” or you don’t have the answer please read this!
When I was in Elementary, our lunch trays were heavy plastic and we would wash them. Simple enough, right?
Well in about 3rd grade they all the schools switched to STYROFOAM TRAYS! We all know how long styrofoam takes to biodegrade. Even if you don’t know exactly how long you know it takes a LONG TIME, right?

Well here’s some numbers:
•Banana Peel: 3-4 weeks
•Paper Bag: 1 month
•Cardboard: 2 months
•Wool Sock : 1 year
•Tinned Steel Can: 50 years
•Aluminum Can: 200-500 years (But if recycled, it can be reused within 6 weeks!)
•Disposable Diapers: 550 years
•Plastic Bags : 20-1000 years
•Plastic Jug: 1 million years
•Glass : 1-2 million years
•Styrofoam: 1+ million years

See Styrofoam? Well every SINGLE school day, approximately **500** of these trays are thrown away at just 1 middle school. In one day! I asked my teacher why they did this and she said Swine Flu. But the swine flu is new so..Why?
And also..The same teacher told us to bring our own paper because if we didn’t, she’d have to pay $200 a month in paper. That’s a lot of paper and there’s not one recycling bin at our school. I asked her why this was and she said that recycling paper costs more and is worse for the enviroment then just throwing it away and making more..Is this true?

Anyways, think about this and consider recycling.
To the person that answered first: So what your saying is, that since we can’t stop pollution completely in every single way, we shouldn’t try to cut down at all?
YOUR a joke..

Can you get money for pounds of paper and bottles?

I held a recycling thing for the school to raise money for the school library. Yesterday we loaded up 9 recycling bins filled with news papers and magazines. Now we can’t get a hold of the recycling manager. I asked if we could get money from pounds of paper. He said it’ll add up after 4 bins full. We can’t let 2 weeks of recycling just be given away without some money back to contribute. Were we misinformed about pounds of paper and bottles being worth anything?

Ideas for my club?

I’m starting a new environmental club and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for projects. I was thinking of planting some trees, a school and park/beach clean up, and putting recycling bins around the school but other than that I’m short of ideas.

Solution for stolen bottles and cans on a school campus?

Ok, so I am developing a recycle program at school but people in our community apparently comes into our school and looks through our bins and trash cans for bottles and cans. They leave a big mess and our bottles/cans get stolen. What should we do?

Can someone edit my essay please?

Hi there, i need someone who knows about writing to edit my essay. like a english teacher, or a english major, or someone who is really good writer. Oh and this is a essay for National junior honor society (NJHS). i am trying to get accepted into NJHS.
thanks

Here is my essay.

National Junior Honor Society Essay

Arriving to every class on time, completing all assignments, and putting one hundred and ten percent of my effort into everything I do. Those are just a few of my keys to academic success. My strength as a student would be in math, because I received straight A’s in Algebra Honors, and I am currently taking the studious course of Geometry Honors. A subject I would like to improve in would be in Civics. I want to be intrigued with all the information they give us about government and economics. Who knows, I might be the first woman president in the future.
When I am nominated to be the group leader for school projects, I usually will accept, and I will make sure the group project is A material. When I nominate another student with the skills or who wants or needs to lead the group, and I see this student struggling to govern the group correctly, I will help the student and the group. In seventh grade, I was chosen to be the group leader for history project, even though not all of the students in my assigned group participated, I made sure that they all participated and, we all earned an A. Every year I participate Solo and Ensemble Competition, and so far I have only received I, which is the highest score you can receive. That is an example of my participating in activities, and to enter the competition, you must have a piano accompanist. I lead the accompanist while I played my violin by leading her to when we started, when we stopped, and how slow or fast we played.
When I make a commitment, I usually follow through with it. I will never go halfway with a commit or promise, and I will not make a promise that I cannot keep. I make a commitment to go to school every day that I am not terribly ill. If I get accepted into National Junior Honor Society, I will commit to come to every meeting, if possible. Respecting, being fair, and showing kindness to everyone I meet is very important to my character and to what I stand for. I show kindness, fairness, and respect to my classmates and my superiors whether there are onlookers or not.
I loved my experience giving back to the community. I am very eager to volunteer my time again. Although I have not done much community service for different organizations, but I have volunteered four and a half hours of my time to clean an elderly who was not able to do so herself. I also volunteered at a thrift store that donates all profits to a local hospital. I am actually planning on joining the recycling club; a club that helps the school go green by emptying all the recycling bins in the school, when it starts. I hope I can get another experience volunteering at a different organization.
Being a National Junior Honor Society member, for me, has always been an “if.” Well, I do not want it to be an “if” anymore. I want it to be an “I am.” I am a National Junior Honor Society member, and I am a step closer to becoming a Harvard University student, is what I want to say. I believe I have the initiative to be among this prestigious group of students. Thank you for your time.

Blue bin and Grey bin?

for recycling in school does it matter which bin you put your recyclables into? because dont they just get mixed together when they get picked up? and what can and cant go into the recycling bins?

I am writing a letter to my principal about creating a recycling program, is this letter good?

any suggestions!? please this is counted as a test grade of 200 points.

Dear Mr. @#$%,
The environment is greatly affected when we do not recycle; much of the world natural resources are being used because of this. Our school should begin a recycling program to help influence the students to recycle. There are many reasons why we should do this, recycling saves energy and money, we can stop the depletion of our natural resources and recycling protects our environment and our health.
When you recycle, you’re saving a lot of energy and money. This is because if you recycle something like glass, you can reuse it, which saves money on buying material. Also, the process of processing recycled glass into new glass produces virtually no waste or unwanted byproducts. In addition, recycling also helps to stop the depletion of our natural resources. If you recycle one ton of paper, you can save seventeen trees from being cut down, which saves animals natural habitats and it leaves more trees to clean the air and protect us from CO2 ’s in the atmosphere. Finally, recycling also helps protect our environment and our health. Recycling protects our health and environment by removing many hurtful products from the garbage in our communities. Just one quart of oil can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. There are so many reasons to recycle, but the main one is that we have to protect our planet.
Creating a recycling program is an easy thing to do. You can create a school club and invite students and staff to create a recycling plan. They would decide on which items the school needs to recycle more of, if the item is paper, they can set up bins around the school where the students can drop off the used and unwanted paper from semester classes, notes to their friends, or just trash paper from inside their lockers. They would have to set a budget and also set plans to educate the community and the school about their ideas. Lastly, the group would have to find ideas to motivate the school to recycle and help the environment. To motivate the students, you can have a school competition to see which class can collect the most cans and bottles (to be recycled) and give out points for battle of the classes. A recycling program is on easy step to creating a cleaner earth and an environmentally friendly school.
Thank you for taking your time to read this letter, I greatly appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Sydnee @#$%&*
9th grader

How Can I Get My School To Recycle?

I was part of the green team at my school,my choir teacher was in charge of it..And she was kind of,well,crazy.Insane.and harsh.
We put bins out for recycling cans and bottles,and NOBODY would ever put their bottles or cans in because they hated the teacher in charge of it.That doesn’t seem right to me.When I try to say somehting they call me a tree huger.I am not OBSESSED with helping the envirorment,and this type of stuff doesn’t get to me.But I just can’t get it into their heads that it is GOOD and GREAT to recycle.They think it is stupid.What should I do?I really want to help the envirorment!Please and Thank you!