Sharon Kelly's Trim Your Waste

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How much plastic do you think our world uses each year? In “Trim Your Waste”, the author, Sharon Kelly, provides more than sufficient details, amazing language skills, and just the right structure to put it all together to convey the ever so clear central idea. Kelly shows us in her text that she believes that through just a few minor changes in our daily life, we can save our planet, one step at a time.She uses the three significant devices, structure, language, and details to convey to the reader exactly what she means by all of this madness.

After a thorough analysis of the passage, the reader might note the more than ample details that Kelly used to convey her main idea. In lines 22-24 of the passage alone, she goes into great detail about just how many disposable plastic bags are used worldwide each year, then tells us that it is also over one million per minute! These rates are insane, and the fact that all these plastic bags alone will take over 1,000 years to break down is insane! A little bit earlier in the passage, Kelly tells us this, “ NEarly three million tons of plastic are used worldwide on disposable water bottles each year… 80% of these single-use …show more content…

Near the beginning of her piece, Kelly proposes the problem that we as readers, and as people are facing in our everyday lives. Kelly then gives us five solutions to our problems under well chosen headings which completely summarize the paragraphs under it, while the paragraphs include well structured, well placed details about how easy it will be for us to make these simple changes. This basis of simplicity helps Kelly to convey her central idea of how a few minor changes in our daily lives could help save our planet. With a few,minor, simple steps our world could be saved from further pollution and it would be easier to do away

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