Jennifer Crumpler Heather Hooks COM 231 IN3 21 October 4, 2013 Recycling Its Your World

Topic: Informative speech outline Speech Purpose: To Inform Specific Speech Purpose: To inform the audience that twenty two liter plastic bottles will make one pound of recycle plastic. 1. Introduction- The effectiveness to recycling in our world. a. Plastic Bottle b. PET-what is stands for? 2. Body I. The recycled world in china a. We believe the first plastic bottle was recycled in china. b. What is happening in china when we send recycled plastic overseas? II. The market for recycling a. Cost to recycle b. China vs. United States 3. Conclusion I. Cost to recycle verse garbage. a. Do we need recycling? b. What will happen in twenty years to our garbage? 4. Oral citation of sources

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Ohio State University, last updated on January 2013 states that in July 2012, Jonathan Watts wrote in the Guardian: Beijings vast army of plastic-bottle scavengers will get an automated rival later this month, when the city introduces it first reverse vending machines hat pay subway credits in exchange for retained containers. More than 100 recycle-to-ride devices will be installed in an attempt to reduce the environmental impact of the informal bottle collection business and improve the profits of the operator, which works in an industry thought to be worth billions of dollars [Source: Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, July 4, 2012]

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Donors will receive between 5 fen and 1 mao (about 1 cent) on their commuter passes for each polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle they insert into the machine, which then crushes them to a third of their original size and sorts them according to color and type. "It will be as easy to use as an ATM," said an employee of the operating company, Income, who declined to give her name. "We hope to put one at every station on the route [subway line 10] and later expand to other lines, bus stops and residential areas." The firm currently processes 50,000 tons of bottles a year, most of which it buys from informal collectors who roam the city's streets looking for discards, which they pack on to carts and bicycles. [Ibid]

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2009 New York Times article on recycling nytimes.com ; China Environmental Law blog article chinaenvironmentallaw.com ; Treehugger article treehugger.com ; E-Waste in Guiyu alexhoffordphotography.com ; CBS News article on Garbage in China cbsnews.com

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Book: The River Runs Black by Elizabeth C. Economy (Cornell, 2004)