Research proposal
I want to research more about the recycling of plastic containers in the world and how it is affecting the human body and the environment. I few years back I saw on the Television show Ellen that Sheryl Crow was battling breast cancer and a leading cause to was her usage of plastic containers. I want to find out more about how the plastic containers and if they either harm or hurt.
My objectives for this research paper are so set my research priorities first. The next step I will prepare the key elements for the research paper that will fulfill the needs required. Next I am going to developed more in depth research about recycling. The I will review, revise, and comment on the drafts, and get final approval for publication for my research.
My research paper will include some of the following topics:
· Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles an hour.
· Texans generate an average of one ton of municipal solid waste per person per year. This means together we throw away enough garbage to fill the Astrodome in Houston every two weeks.
· Americans’ total yearly waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks long enough to wrap around the earth six times or to reach half-way to the moon
· Americans throw away enough disposable plates and cups to give the world a picnic 6 times a year.
· Every year, we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the state of Texas.
· Recycling waste materials supports about six times as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the same materials were treated as trash.
· Texans use enough glass bottles and jars to fill the Astrodome every 4-1/2 months.
· The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.
· PET (polyethylene terephthalate, recycling code #1)soda bottles are the most recycled plastic containers.
· Five recycled 2-liter PET bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff an adult ski jacket. Thirty-five recycled PET bottles make enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag.
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