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Recreation and
Tourism
Enviromentalists
Hampshire H.S. / Moore
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
1:34 PM
We pollute the Chesapeake Bay by throwing our trash down
on the ground, in the ocean, and in trash cans that are
sent to landfills. To stop this from happening we need
to put recycling bins near the sideswalks and other
places that are visited by people. The government could
supply the bins and then they could let little
non-profit organizations come and pick up the bins and
take them to the recycling centers. They should also let
the organizations that take the bins the center have the
money for their groups and what they need it for. It
could go to the homeless shelters or church groups that
raise money for the people who need it the most. These
solutions will benefit us by reducing the amount of
pollution that hurts the fish we by from the store that
we feed our families with.
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From:
Conkreat Jungul Massanutten Reg. Gvnrs. School /
Newcomer
3/19/2007
6:38:00 AM
Citizens do pollute by throwing trash on the ground, but
there are also many other
factors that contribute to the pollution of the
Chesapeake Bay by people visiting
recreational facilities. It would be helpful if you
could describe these other ways and a
solution to reduce it. I’m also wondering how you are
going to enforce recycling
because most people throw trash on the ground because
they are too lazy to throw the
trash away. What incentives will you use to get people
to not only throw their trash
away, but actually recycle it?
From:
T.A.L.K About the Bay Massanutten Reg. Gvnrs. School /
Newcomer
3/19/2007
6:41:00 AM
You have a good point about the fact that people throw
their trash on the ground and that
there needs to be recycling bins in areas that people
visit, but aren't there more ways
that environmentalists can help to clean up the Bay?
Trash is not the only pollution that
affects the fish that we eat. Runoff, from farms
containing nitrogen, phosphorus, etc.
also affect the health of the Bay and its inhabitants.
What are some ways that you can
help to decrease this pollution?
From:
Enigmatic Enviromentalists Broadway H.S. / Rissler
3/19/2007
9:04:00 AM
Disclaimer: I have used the term “Americans” several
places which could easily be
swapped for “humans/people.” I chose to use Americans
because this forum primarily
involves the Chesapeake Bay on American Soil. I also
chose to use the term Americans
because I consider us to be the most wasteful and
unethical society in existence today.
This is inexcusable because of our role as a leading
World Power and our rather
impeccable habit of involving ourselves in the Global
Community. Thankfully, Our
Mentor and Teachers have accepted the responsibility of
training us to be “Global
Community”-minded individuals who realize that there are
more life forms on this planet
than merely humans and we depend rather heavily on their
continued existence.
It’s nice to see that you call yourselves
“environmentalists” but you have a few ideas that
need clearing up…
#1
You say, “we need to put recycling bins near the
sideswalks[sp] and other places that are
visited by people.” What an original idea! No one has
ever thought of that
before…wrong. They have the fact is Americans have not
been educated to care for the
environment they live in. They will neither break their
habit of laziness when they
simply throw trash on the ground nor will they begin to
take the time from their “busy”
lifestyles to places the appropriate materials in their
respective containers. Americans(
and the human race in general) simply are not aware of
the damage they cause by letting
the Twinkie wrapper blow away. You cannot recycle mixed
materials in one big pot.
They have to be separated which takes extensive time. I
know from experience what a
monotonous task it is to go through countless bins of
aluminum cans. In the process of
recycling you have neither saved money nor the
environment. By using all that time to
process cans I could be making $7.50 an hour at a local
restaurant as opposed to what
may about to $30 from a month of collecting cans from a
1200 student/employee body
and spend 6 or so hours separating cans (and getting
covered in a month old juice and
pop mixture) and cleaning the various repulsive items
students find convenient shove
inside. Thanks but no thanks I’ll simply tithe a little
extra on my paycheck at the church
and let them donate back to the community. As for the
environment, supposing enough
people were to start recycle cans that the need for
aluminum ore would actually
decrease, you may have stopped their mining and you may
have cleaner looking streets
and streams but think of all the pollutants (mainly the
greenhouse gas CO2) you’ve put
into the atmosphere by driving to and from the recycling
center and all the energy
you’ve wasted. So, in extreme terms, by recycling that
can you’ve helped melt the
icecaps which cause the Atlantic to flood over half of
Florida. I bet your grandparents
are proud of you. They always wanted to go scuba diving…
So sure you may have
improved the Bay watershed a minute little bit but at
the cost of the entire Earth. Is it
really worth it?
#2 “they[the government] could let little[not the big
ones??] non-profit organizations
come and pick up the bins and take them to the recycling
centers. They should also let the
organizations that take the bins the center have the
money for their groups and what
they need it for. It could go to the homeless shelters
or church groups that raise money
for the people who need it the most.”
Well the government can’t really stop them anyway, so
those not-for-profit(they do get
some profit you know) groups already do just not on a
continually basis. And besides the
money is not substantial to actually make a huge
difference in the Bay’s ecosystem. And
“to the people that need it most” Isn’t that the
homeless guy who actually went around and
picked up people trash because he lived off of the
money he received from recycling
Chesapeake
Homeowners Association MRGS
Response to
Enigmatic Environmentalists
3/21/2007
7:36:00 AM
In response to the comment made by Enigmatic
Environmentalists on the Enviromentalists
Hampshire H.S. / Moore topic, we would like to make
known that yes, it is entirely worth it
to recycle the aluminum cans because every can recycled
is equal to 6 oz. of gas being
saved versus mining boxite to produce another aluminum
can. If that doesn’t give any idea
of the importance of recycling even one aluminum can,
then think about this; each aluminum
can recycled would equate to saving the amount of
energy wasted by running a 60-watt
light-bulb for 16 hours or a television for 21 hours.
Think about those things before you
claim recycling isn’t “worth it.”
From:
Anonymous North Harford H.S. / Oleary
3/22/2007
12:14:00 PM
Putting recycling bins out is just one little step.
There needs to be alot more things done
to help out the bay. One suggestion is to charge people
to use certain areas and use this
money clean up pollution. Another would be to put up
signs around the park areas to show
people what they should do to not pollute.
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