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Submitted by lea~ on February 26, 2006
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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...
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