Bag-In-Box Essays

  • Methods of Long Term Underground Storage

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    UNDERGROUND STORAGE BY WILLIAM N, NELSON AND STANLEY A. CATLOW Reprinted by the permission of: MAGNUM ENTERPRISES P. O. Box 621 Ephrata, Washington 98823 INDEX Chapter 1....................................4 Above Ground ...........................4 Chapter 2....................................5 Below Ground ...........................5 A. Ammo Cans.......................5 B. Plastic Bags ...................6 C. PVC Pipe........................6 Chapter 3....................................8 A. Cosmoline

  • My Experience in a Haunted House - Original Writing

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    My Experience in a Haunted House - Original Writing I stared at the forgotten ruin as my taxi pulled up outside. It reminded me of a tombstone in a graveyard, overcome with vines; twisting around it like a snake trying to kill its prey. I got out. " 5.55 please mate" stated the cab driver. I exchanged money with him and he drove off. I looked up upon this house with great discomfort. ' Why on earth did I agree to this bet? Spend a night in an old rotten "haunted" house!"' My mind pondered

  • Benefits Of Plastic Bags

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    Plastic Bags On the month of March of 2013, the House Committee of Urban Affairs had proposed the bill HB 2416 that requires for retailers whom use plastic bags when doing check-outs to have the plastic bags be charged a fee or simply to not use any plastic bags. The policy issue of having a ban towards plastic bags is important for many reasons, they are wrecking the environment and costing hundreds and thousands of dollars in the process. According to the Corpus Christi Plastic Bag Ordinance (2012)

  • Bag Ban Bad For Freedom And Environment Rhetorical Analysis

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    address the people of California in his 2013 article, “Bag Ban Bad for Freedom and Environment.” California had just recently escaped a bill that would ban all plastic bags in stores. This upset many environmentalists, so Summers wrote his article to show why plastic bags should exist in society. Summers’ article could easily fail as an argument, as many people support the environment and have continuously heard about the dangers of plastic bags. However, Summers builds three tiers of arguments by

  • Argumentative Essay On Plastic Bags

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    Consumers worldwide use 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags per year (Greenwire). Plastic bags are loved by many because of their convenience. They are thin, almost weightless, bags that almost every store provides to carry purchases. Consumers enjoy plastic bags to paper and reusable because they are resistant to moisture and can be reused for many purposes, but many are ignorant of the harm plastic bags to the environment. Although the plastic bags are being reused for several other purposes they almost

  • Alexander Parkers and The Creation of Plastic

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    cashier will asked you if you want plastic or paper bag. People may think about many different way for choosing plastic or paper bag. Some people may think that which kind of bag they can easily reuse at home. Eventually, most people may just don't care about any kind of bag , neither plastic or paper. All they want to do is have a bag for their grocery food that they bought. Do think you making the right decision every time when you choose your bag for your grocery food or any other junks? The first

  • Plastic Bags Dbq

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    The debate of whether plastic bags are more beneficial to the environment and our community continues to find little resolution. Although there’s an abundant opposition to the use of plastic bags, the benefits of using plastic bags should be acknowledge. Manufacturing and the usage of plastic bags produce less pollution, require little energy, and is efficient for recycling; therefore, our community should avoid limiting the use of plastic bags because plastic is a valuable material. First, our

  • Analysis Of Bag Ban Bad For Freedom And Environment By Adam B. Summers

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    supermarket to purchase groceries to keep families fed. Adam B. Summers has created a highly plausible argument that may change customer’s answer next time. In Summers’ “Bag ban bad for freedom and environment” editorial for the San Diego Union-Tribune, he argues against the possible laws hindering Californians from using plastic bags at grocery stores. He believes they would do more harm than good, and that “a little reason and perspective is in order.” By the end of this piece the reader will likely

  • Advantages And Disadvantages Of Paper And Plastic

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    their groceries in a bag, but do shoppers know the effects of each vessel in which they carry their comestibles? There are many issues and benefits to both paper and plastic. The making and recycling of both paper and plastic bags can harm the environment. One must also look at the costs of making each bag. The convenience of each is also something to look at. Many people jump to conclusion that paper bags are better for the environment without knowing the facts. Since plastic bags are preferred by customers

  • Dumb Is Bad

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    included some type of relation to plastic bags, dog ‘waste’, and the pursuit of bears. To begin, plastic bags have become an exceptional necessity in the US, but , in some cities, like San Jose and Sunnyvale, have become limited. Even if plastic has obliterated itself from a consumer's view, something has not disappeared, yet. The text states, “Stores may still provide paper bags made of 40% post-consumer recycled material and charge a minimum of 10 cents for each bag.” This is beneficial

  • Paper Bags Controversy

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    comes up touches on which material is more harmful to the environment. Paper and plastic bags are both harmful to the environment in their own way, but which one is worse? Paper bags are said to use harmful chemicals and tons of fresh water, but facts will prove plastic bags to be much harder on the environment. The first thing that needs to be taken into consideration is how the bags are made. Paper bags use trees.They start off by cutting down trees, which have to dry out for three years (

  • Euthanasia Essay - Oregon's Measure 16 For Assisted Suicide

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    during the campaign for California's ballot initiative -- which allowed for both pills and a lethal injection -- Patty Rosen, then Patty Fallon, told a far different version of her daughter's death: "So she went to sleep. I didn't know about plastic bags. I wish I had. Because...It seemed to be back firing. And I was fortunate enough at the very last to be able to hit a vein right.... [B]efore I could do that, the one son came into the room.... took his hands and held her veins for me.... I said, 'Oh

  • Litter Control

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    Litter Control Litter control is not only an important issue to me but to this state and country. Programs such as Keep America Beautiful and adopt-a-highway are designed to promote a clean environment by educating people and creating projects to help improve the environment (Keeping America Beautiful). Growing up I learned the importance of having a clean environment. It improves the quality of life, it increases your confidence level, and it makes you proud of your community. I feel strongly

  • The Problems of Packaging and Waste

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    Plastic bags are the most important ways that could help the environment of the countries around the world to be clean and clear from the pollutions that will be made by peoples, of course everyone in this large world want to be comfortable, so for example if a person who just bought a chocolate, first of all if he think a little about the environment of his country, he will eat the chocolate and then will throw the casing of the chocolate inside a trash or inside a plastic bag that will be made

  • Why We Should Plastic Bags Be Banned

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    Hawaii just became the first state in the U.S. to completely ban plastic bags from being distributed at grocery store check-outs. California attempted to pass a similar ban that's now being delayed, and at least 132 cities in 18 states have banned plastic shopping bags. The U.S. is late to this party -- the whole EU, China, India, Australia, Rwanda, and many other countries have already instituted full-on bans on plastic bags. Plastics have a huge environmental cost, and this is one simple step we

  • Bhutan Bans Plastic Bags

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    Plastic bags are the leading visible signs of the pollution that extends across our planet. It is actually a rare chance to ascertain a strip of road, watercourse bank or ocean front that doesn't have a couple of plastic bags littering the locale. The creation of every new bag means that slightly a lot of addition of damage to the environment daily. Bhutan first banned in use of plastic bags in 1999. This was reinforced in 2005, and again in 2009 as Plastic bag poses an excellent threat to the environment

  • Down In A Hole

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    and vomit. I held the muscle with my right hand as my left hand was paralysed with shock. The adrenaline shot me forcing me to move but shock shattered me into thin slices that were impossible to put back again. I fetched frantically for a plastic bag, my body sweltered with heat as I felt away for... ... middle of paper ... ...rt. I could taste real blood leaking out of my mouth. A bolt of lightning jolted every nerve within me and an aggravating pain caused me to collapse. I was shaking and

  • Ecoplan Essay

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    some of these habits and ways to fix them. The bad habits I have chosen to discuss are; leaving my phone charger plugged into the wall, purposely taking the long way home from work, always choosing to drink bottled water over tap, and using plastic bags at the market and falling asleep with the television on. I am going to discuss how each of these has a bad impact to the environment and how I can help reduce the damage done by these bad habits. The first habit I am going to talk about is the leaving

  • Plastic Bag Synthesis Essay

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    plastic, and reusable carrying bags has yielded much controversy over the past couple decades. Some argue that plastic bags aren’t as much of a hindrance as paper bags can be to the environment, however our well being on Earth seems more at risk in terms of longevity when it comes to plastic bags. My community should should limit plastic bag use by imposing a fee on it to both boost waste programs and reduce the amount of non-biodegradable material in the Earth. PLastic bags can prove to be convenient

  • Explain Why Plastic Bags Should Be Banned In Australia

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    Why Plastic Bags Should be Banned Nationally By Joseph Klotz Freelance Journalist Single use plastic shopping bags litter our environment, harm wildlife and require valuable resources to manufacture. According to data from Cleanup Australia, Australians use an estimated 5 billion plastic bags a year, that's just over 13 million new bags being used every day and approximately 170 plastic bags per person. If you tied all of them together, it would create a chain long enough to go around the world