Recycling

Date Feb 2006

General purpose: to persuade

Specific purpose: to persuade National College of Business & Technology to recycle

Central idea: Recycling and why we should

Introduction: This speech is dedicated to those who believe in miracles

Attention material: Good morning, my name is Lea, I’m a student here at National College of Business & Technology. I’m happy to be here today to speak to you on behalf of our environment.

I live next to a city park. This morning, while walking the dogs, I counted about 125 trees. Did you know that every week, 500,000 trees are used to make the Sunday paper?

Orienting material: that’s 4,000 of my little parks every week!

Are you wondering, “How does that affect me?” by eliminating our “green” space we eliminate something essential to our lives. Oxygen. Trees and plants produce it, we need it.

T It’s what I think of as a circle of life.

Body

Main Point:

1. Another circle is what Recycling is all about. There are 3 R’s in Recycling

a. Reduce

b. Reuse

c. Recycle

Let’s take a look at them:

2. The first R, Reduce

a. Reducing what we use and what we waste means using fewer natural resources and less energy.

b. Ways to reduce waste include:

Sharing, or renting things we don’t use a lot, like carpet cleaners.

Buying products with less packaging

Buying permanent items instead of disposable.

Being aware of what we’re using,

And not purchasing hazardous or toxic chemicals

In school, we could use both sides of

c. Less waste also means less land put aside for burying waste.

d. Here’s a statistic that I’ve had a hard time getting my brain around, I know it has grown because the stat is 2 years old, according to the US consensus bureau there are 2hundred 98million, 1hundred 31thousand, 7hundred 36 people in the US. According to the EPA Americans generate 4.4 lbs of garbage per person per day. So, if we do a little math, that means Americans generate 4hundred 78billion, 7 hundred 99 million, 5hundred 68 thousand, 16 pounds of trash a year. How long do you think it will take for us to create a new global layer of garbage?

3. The second R is Reuse

a. Reusing items as much as you can keeps them from becoming waste.

b. For example: My Grandpa Stoutenborough, made a go cart out of an old washing machine engine, he used baby food jars on his work bench to store nuts, bolts, screws & all the little stuff one accumulates. Last Christmas, one of my favorite gifts was from Nols’ friend Tiff, who decorated & used a baby food jar for fresh herbs from her garden.

c. The oldest and one of the best examples of Reuse is our library. Books are borrowed, read, and returned. This reuse saves thousands of trees.

T: 40-60% of what we throw away can be recycled. That brings us to the 3rd R

4.Recycle

a. Recycling is reusing what we’ve already used.

b. The recycling process is converting what we’ve used back into raw materials then making new products with them.

c. Aluminum cans are a