Brynn Kolste Professor Bertany Writing 101 24 September, 2024. Medical Waste vs The Environment “Globally, 4.7 billion tons of healthcare waste is produced each year, which is about thirty-three pounds per hospital bed per day.” This is further explained in Ted Alcorn's article titled "Your Inhalers and EpiPens Aren't Very Healthy for the Environment." Written on February 26, 2024, his article incorporates logos and pathos to convince the readers that medical waste is, in fact, not good for the environment. He does this by using real data, research, emotional appeal, and real life stories to get his point across to the readers. Alcorn uses logos – the appeal to logic – by using scientific research and statistical data. He does this through …show more content…
About a third of the 37 million Americans with diabetes manage the disease with insulin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Novo Nordisk alone made 750 million insulin pens in 2021, made of more than 28 million pounds of plastic." Yet another very well-researched fact from the CDC. Research programs such as BBC Research and the CDC are very credible. Especially with environmental issues, readers are drawn to data based on such sources. Logos also appear through logical reasoning, expert opinions and objectivity. As far as logic goes, most are aware that one of the major problems in the world is pollution. Alcorn also uses logical reasoning to create a correlation between the problems with the pollution, the manufacturing and disposing of medical devices, and the results. Besides logic, expert opinions are also used to persuade the readers. While explaining the ways to reduce medical waste, Alcorn mentions a company dealing in the recycling and reusing of medical waste. "Over nine years, only 24,000 pounds of plastic were recovered from the inhalers-a figure Claire Lund, the company's vice president for sustainability, described as "absolutely minuscule" compared to the approximately 5