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Speech Outline Name: Lauren Rowe Title: Recycling and Going Green Type of Persuasive Speech: Value Organizational Pattern: Problem and Solution General Purpose: To Persuade the audience Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to recycle and go green to save the Earth. Central Idea: You should reduce, reuse, recycle and go green to help our planet. Introduction: Attention: I want you to imagine a line wrapping around the Earth 24 times. This line is filled with paper, plastic, cans, and many other products. I wish I could say that this was what we as Americans recycled in 2009. According to the EPA, this line is a representation of how much trash we produced in 2009. This could have been reduced by 75% had we just recycled. Importance: This could have been reduced by 75% had we just recycled. Today I am going to tell you about recycling and how putting in a small amount of effort can help our planet more than you think. Credibility: I have recycled and done quite a bit of research on going green and have applied it to my own life. Preview: By the end of my speech, I hope to persuade you to make change in your own life and see the efforts on earth. Transition: So lets talk about our natural resources. When I think of natural resources, the first think that comes to mind are trees. Body: I. (Problem) A. Resources are limited. 1. Enormous numbers of trees are cut down and rainforest disappeared fast. (D. Jensen, author of Deforestation threatens the Environment, republished in 2009 says “Two and a half acres of forest are cut every second.”) a. Why is this important? According to TreePeople.com, Excess carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by many factors is a building up in our atmosphere and contributing to climate change. Trees absorb CO2, removing and storing the carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air. In one year, an acre of mature trees absorbs the amount of CO2 produced when you drive your car 26,000 miles. B. Global Warming is a result of wasting natural resources.

a. Theworldcounts.com states production of certain materials from scratch can release significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. b. Aluminum production is a prime example—producing new aluminum creates 95% more CO2 than recycling old aluminum cans., 2017) C. Even though resources are limited, we use materials wastefully. 1. People create too much trash. (The EPA Archive report, Municipal Solid Waste in the United States states “A person creates about 4.4lbs of trash a day”.) 2. People easily use disposal products such as paper cup and disposal spoons, forks, knives, plates, chopsticks. Transition: Now that I have discussed the main issues with using natural resources, let’s go on to the solution and how we can solve II. (Solution) A. You should know what types of materials can be recycled and how to practice recycling in your daily life. 1. There are many kinds of recyclable materials in our daily lives. (All Green Recycling brochure written by Residential Curbside Recycling, in 2012 “paper, boxes, cardboard, glass, bottles or containers made by plastic or metals including aluminum and steel can be recycled.”) a. Know what cannot be recycled as well. Pizza boxes, plastic bags, juice boxes, and chip bags- Examples. 2. You just put another recycle trashcan right next to your regular one and the city will handle the recyclables for you. Transition: Now that I have talked about the recycling and what how you can do your part, let’s move to the visualization part. III. (Visualization- Visual Aid) A. I want you to visualize the benefits and consequences from by recycling. 1. The result of recycling makes a huge difference on everyday life. (The United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, on the report of the national recycling figures in 2009, “82 million tons composted or recycled for recovery and it meant United States recycle about 32% of its waste today. Compared to last decade, the rate is 100% increased.”) Or 2. Costs associated with recycling and not recycling. (Book, Friedland/Relyea Environmental Science by Andrew Friedland, Rick Relyea, and David Courard-Hauri.)

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Signaling the End: In conclusion, I have discussed the issues with using natural resources that are slowly depleting, how you can do your part to recycle and you saw the effects of recycling through a visual aid. II. II. Review of Main Points: A. Depleting Natural Resources B. How you can do your part C. Visual Aid to show effects III. Ending with Impact: Your material wasting may not threat yourself immediately but it might affect or your children and future generations. So I encourage you to make a difference. Reference List: Consequences of Depletion of Natural Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/consequences_of_depletion_of_natural_r esources Jensen, D. (2006). Deforestation threatens the Environment. In D. Dupler (Ed.), Conserving the environment (pp. 72). Detroit: Greenhaven Press. Municipal Solid Waste in the United States. (2013, November 04). EPA. Retrieved from https://archive.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/web/pdf/msw2009rpt.pdf Residential Curbside Recycling. (2012). All Green Recycling. Saskatoon, SC: Residential Curbside Recycling. TreePeople. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.treepeople.org/ Williams, L. (2012). United States Recycling. Retrieved November 25, 2012, from http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics...