General Purpose: Recycling is an issue which the world realized the importance of decades of. However, so much still needs to be done. And this speech would outline some of the pressing needs of the world and their relation to recycling.
Specific: this speech would entail some of the measures which are most important in ensuring that at least some of the goals outlined by the environmentalists are achieved while at the same time would act as an important reminder to all those who have been slacking off in their duties in ensuring a healthier, cleaner environment.
Attention grabbing sentence
Recycle one can and you can save 3 hrs of television energy. Imagine the scope that the word recycling entails! My speech would act as a wakeup call for all those who wish to remain committed to one of the most important activities facing the entire human race. Bonnie DeSimone’s book regarding Rewarding Recyclers, and Finding Gold in the Garbage is a must read for all those who would want to understand the different ways we are rewarded via recycling.
Thesis Statement
This speech is not about merely dictating what recycling is. We might be aware of but what this speech is about ensuring that we have a future tomorrow. Ensuring that we have air to breathe, water to drink and that we do not create a planet which becomes the very cause for the end of the human race. Seems bleak? Think about that while I take you further down on the road to a better life. There are basic steps that we must all take such as use recycled materials, compost organic material, support recycling activities. But why? Why must we. What can you and I gain from something which does not really seem to affect us. We get clean water, we can breathe and the roads seem clean and whoever said that trees were getting less? The actual picture is as simple as the fact that there simply isn’t any more land area for waste such as in the case of UK whereby 2011 almost all the landfills would be used up, it costs more to use raw materials than recycled materials, and in order to even have a future for the future generations steps need to be taken TODAY.
Main Idea no 1: as the world gets more and more caught up in the pursuit of material pleasures and success, we expose ourselves to increased levels of exposure from pollution-creating activities on a scale never witnessed before as has been outlined in a book titled Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy by Frank Ackerman.
Subordinate Idea one: As wealth has risen all over the world, the risks have risen even more from the detrimental effects of pollution. We buy more and pollute more. Ali Yacooub and Fresner Johannes’ Half is Enough – An Introduction to Cleaner Production acts as a wakeup for people like you and me who wish to act but don’t.
Subordinate idea 2: As we engaged in habits such as eating more fast food world over, we risk the environment to more products which aren’t biodegradable.
Main Idea 2: the relationship between increased population levels and pollution. A relationship which can only result in an environmental ravaged and destroyed beyond repair.
Subordinate idea 1: Increase the number of population controlling measures in developing nations
Subordinate idea 2: ensure greater environmental safe practices in pop-dense areas such as China, India.
Main Idea 3: the world has witnessed revolutions in the production processes but is it environmentally safe. It is sad to know that that is not the case. We have created systems which could deprive us of highly significant environmental resources as has been so aptly stated in Richard Porter’s “the economics of waste”.
Subordinate idea 1: introduce such packaging and technological products which could be environmentally safe.
Subordinate idea 2: by making use of recycled materials rather than new raw materials we could save thousands of trees, save millions of liters of previous water.
Conclusion
- The paper that we read every week means a loss of 500,000 trees. Those very trees which supply us with the oxygen which I, U and we all need for survival purposes. So, why don’t we do our bit in ensuring sustainable environmentally safe growth? In order to truly understand what im saying try reading a report titled “The Future of Sustainability: Re-thinking Environment and Development in the Twenty-first Century by W.M. Adams.
- Let’s recycle, make use of recycled materials, and introduce environmentally safe practices in all work areas and at home. Let’s make today the day when we really did the cycle of change.
- If the US President is doing it, what is stopping u and me? Save lives ladies and gentlemen!
References
Adams, W.M. (2006). “The Future of Sustainability: Re-thinking Environment and Development in the Twenty-first Century.” Report of the IUCN Renowned Thinkers Meeting, 2006.
Ackerman, Frank. (1997). Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy. Island Press. ISBN 1559635045, 9781559635042.
Porter, Richard C. (2002). The economics of waste. Resources for the Future. ISBN 1891853422, 9781891853425.
Bonnie DeSimone. (2006). Rewarding Recyclers, and Finding Gold in the Garbage. New York Times.
Yacooub, Ali; Johannes Fresner (2006). Half is Enough – An Introduction to Cleaner Production. Beirut, Lebanon: LCPC Press. ISBN 3-9501636-2-X.