Persuasive Speech On Recycling

Most people have heard of recycling and reuse, but many people think that recycling is only something “Mother Nature lovers” and “tree huggers” do to feel good about themselves. What they do not know is that it is economically advantageous, and environmentally beneficial. In fact, it is a very efficient and simple way for everyone to help save the earth, and a lot of money.

To recycle means to turn waste and trash into reusable materials. There are different ways to do that, such as dumping your metal, glass, and paper into a blue bin to be sent to a recycling plant, donating an item to Goodwill, sending electronics to scrappers, or composting your food waste to provide rich soil for gardening. (Sponaugle udemy.com) When you do any one of those actions, you are stopping your trash from going to waste. All of your

A landfill is a huge hole in the ground where waste companies can store all of society’s unwanted garbage. Disposing of trash in this way is certainly the most simple, but also the most harmful and wasteful. Landfills are very bad; they grow and grow, and secrete pungent odors, and potentially hazardous wastes, which are harmful for the communities, human and animal ones alike, that live near them. (Sponaugle udemy.com)

Why waste good waste when you can make money from it? Recycling has many economic benefits: it creates jobs, saves money, and saves expensive energy and precious resources.

In their article on the benefits of recycling, the United States Environmental Protection Agency states: “the recycling and reuse industry consists of approximately 56,000 establishments that employ over 1.1 million people, generate an annual payroll of nearly $37 billion, and gross over $236 billion in annual revenues. [They also] generate billions in federal, state, and local tax revenues. (Estimated at $12.9 billion in