Recycling Waste

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This paper asserts that recycling should be mandatory by law to conserve energy and natural resources and to reduce pollution. The author relates the problems associated with landfills and contends that recycling centers do not have the same problems. For example, if less waste was put in landfills and recycling was mandatory, there would be less worry about water contamination. The paper concludes that the United States government needs to follow Europe's leadership in mandatory recycling to solve the waste problem.

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"Another point of view may be that recycling cannot stop air pollution, because most air pollution is caused by fossil fuels. The thing to remember is that the waste in an incinerator is not going to easily burn itself. When those fumes are released into the sky the possibility of acid rain becomes higher. Some people may argue that laws have been put in place to reduce the possibility of the methane gas and leachate becoming a problem. This is a valid point because many laws have been created to make landfills "environmentally friendlier." "

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• Chandler, Gary, and Kevin Graham. Protecting Our Air, Land, and Water. New York: Henry Hold and Company Inc., 1996.
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• Miller, Christina G., and Louise A. Berry. Acid Rain: A Sourcebook for Young People. New York: Julian Messner, 1986.
• Nakaya, Andrea C., ed. America in the Twenty-First Century. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2006.

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