This document discusses the importance of recycling and proposes ways to improve recycling efforts on campus. It notes that recycling reduces waste processing costs, provides jobs, and removes hazardous materials from landfills. However, it observes that on campus, many people do not properly separate recyclable and non-recyclable waste. To address this, the document proposes establishing a green council that would monitor waste collection, educate students on proper recycling, and promote environmental protection campus-wide. The overall goal is to make recycling a natural habit and maximize its benefits.

1. SAVE OUR PLANET
BY HAIXIN SU

2. THE IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING
• recycling could reduce the size and number of resource recovery plants.
• recycling was considered a less expensive method of waste disposal.
• recycling would also rid the waste stream of items that were hazardous to
burn or landfill and would provide a “ ready source of materials that were
expensive and in short supply.”
• Recycling could provide as many as 44,000 to 60,000 new jobs in the city

3. THE IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING CONT.
• when you will recycle old products and have less dependency on new
products the obviously you will end up in saving some money. That money
can then be used for some other purposes. When recycling is done on large
scale the money saved can have huge impact on your monthly expenditure.

4. BUT BASED ON MY OBSERVATION
• In campus, there are always two trash cans that we can use to put our
garbage in, one is landfill other is recycle. What I always see is people don’t
care which trash can they are using regard to the garbage. Because they
think all the trash will be environmentally safe.
• This action makes the recycling meaningless.

5. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
• landfills are major sources of air and water pollution, also including
greenhouse gas emission.
• What’s more, decomposing paper, and other materials in landfills produce
volatile organic chemicals that will contributes to global warming

6. ENLARGE THE BENEFIT OF RECYCLING
• Every one of us should be involved. We need to reinforce the concept of
environmental protection.
• Starting to treat garbage as a resource not waste.
• Try to avoid the use of plastic bag and plastic paper as much as possible.
• ASU should establish a green council.

7. GREEN COUNCIL
• With a goal to find what waste is being generated and where its coming from.
• Hold some activity with the theme of recycling contest among the residential
halls.
• If the green council has enough members, the council can send people to
make an inspection tour of the trashcans around the campus to make sure
everyone throw the right thing to the cans.
• At the end of every month, the council member can measure and report,
identify gaps in programs and evaluate if new efforts are needed.
• The main goal of the green council is not only to administrate people’s action
to save the environment, but more crucially, to make people rethink how can
we save the world by our little steps, and until some day, we will realize that
recycling is a natural part of our lives, just like drinking water.

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