Review Essay Outline

MY TOPIC: _________The Benefits/drawbacks of reducing or banning single use of plastic.

I. What are your criteria?

1) List your criteria, 2) Provide a brief explanation of each individual criterion, and 3) Provide a brief justification, explaining why this criterion is important/necessary in evaluating your subject.

CRITERIA: Recycling/Reusing

EXPLANATION: Plastics are the largest causes of pollution both water and land despite the fact that we can reuse pr recycle the plastics.

JUSTIFICATION: For years, people have been used to single use of plastics either as pscksaging materials or bottles and later disposing them. However, we need to start reusing plastic containers or plastic bags

CRITERIA: BiodegredabilityEXPLANATION: Plastics have been found not to be biodegradable becase of material made

JUSTIFICATION: Often, biodegradability has been a key process of ensuring waste is decom[osed, however this is not the case for the plastics as they can stay for years in the soil

CRITERIA: Landfill menace

EXPLANATION: Most of the landfills we have are filled with plasics and plasic containers.

JUSTIFICATION: The best way government have deviced to dispose off waste including plastics is through landfills. Very fertile lands have been converted to dumping sites and when they fill up they are closed and another opened.

CRITERIA: Increased consumerism and plastic use

EXPLANATION: Consumerism is the largest contributor to pollution as it is humans who dispose off these plastcs to environment.

JUSTIFICATION: Regarding plastics, humans are in a better position to try and help manage the menace on plastics, for example, why don’t we get a way where one plastic container for a milk can work. A milk dispenser can be created thus instread of milk being packaged in containers they are dispensed directly from a “milk atm” to a reusable bottle that a customer has carried.

II. Make a clear decision.

Plastic bags are the biggest pollutors both in land as well as the sea because they are biodegradable filling up landfills, for this reasons it is important to mange use of plastic bags through recycling, reusing or even a total ban on the use of plastics in order to prevent our planet.

III. Prove it.

There are materials that clearly pinpoint the issue on use of plastics and it’s effect to the environment.. be low are sources I will utilize in my paper.

Mrosovsky, Nicholas, Geraldine D. Ryan, and Michael C. James. “Leatherback turtles: the menace of plastic.” Marine pollution bulletin 58.2 (2009): 287-289.

Subramanian, P. M. “Plastics recycling and waste management in the US.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 28.3-4 (2000): 253-263.

Wabnitz, Colette, and Wallace J. Nichols. “Plastic pollution: an ocean emergency.” Marine Turtle Newsletter 129 (2010): 1.

Xing, Xiufeng. “Study on the ban on free plastic bags in China.” Journal of Sustainable Development 2.1 (2009): 156-158.