Walking around campus I noticed that there is a problem of littering. When walking around campus, it is not unusual to find a lone PowerAde bottle or a crumpled piece of paper lying on the ground. Every day I walk to many of my classes by taking the path from the six-pack that leads behind the business building and towards the quad. For the last two weeks, every time I have walked down that path I have noticed the same bottle in the same spot since the day someone dropped it. It is ridiculous sometimes how much trash is scattered along sidewalks and the streets of our campus, and it seems like little is being done to reduce the problem. It seems like there is not an adequate number of garbage cans on campus. I feel that if there were more garbage cans, people would more likely throw away their trash. On Green Street I noticed there is a garbage can that is solar powered and uses the gathered energy to compact the trash inside. I haven’t seen any other ”green” cans like this one on campus, but I feel that if the university added more garbage cans, more of these models should be introduced. This would help the university staff complete the task of emptying an increased number of garbage cans at a manageable rate.
Claim: By adding more garbage cans/ “green” cans to the campus, more people on campus with throw away their trash and less littering will occur.
Grounds: With more garbage cans, people will be enticed to put their trash in the garbage and not on the ground. With the availability of “green” garbage cans, staff will not be overwhelmed and money will be saved in the removal of trash.
Warrant: By increasing the ease of access to garbage cans, people will throw away their trash more frequently.
Backing: With anything in life, the easier something can be carried out, the more frequently it will occur. I have seen people throwing garbage in garbage cans, and when none are easily accessible, I have seen people simply litter.
Qualifier: Some people will continue to litter regardless of how easy it is to throw away their trash due to a lack of interest.
Pat,
ReplyDeleteI like your example and how you used this assignment for a purpose that could actually help improve our campus. That being said, I think that adding more garbage cans would actually make it more difficult for university staff, since there would be more of them to empty. But great thoughts, and I also think that this is something the university should work on improving if it wants to attract more students to our campus. Nice work!
Alex
I like the idea that you are proposing here. I have seen way too much garbage around campus as well. The stuff that bothers me most is the broken bottles all over some areas. Glass shards are not only unsightly, but pose a danger to people as well.
ReplyDeleteI have only one problem with your model. In your grounds section, you said that with the use of green cans, "staff will not be overwhelmed and money will be saved in the removal of trash." While this may be a valid point, I feel like that statement is a little off topic. It does nothing to directly address to problem about there being litter.
Matt
This is definitely a smart idea, and I truly appreciate both the writeup in paragraph form and list form. I agree with it completely, as I have also been noticing this problem. One thing to take into account is the fact that maintenance of the garbage cans is another issue. The thing is, they just empty the garbage cans, and then leave them. Think about it. How about the slop (sauces,gum,etc.) that doesn't fall into the dump truck? It just rots there and makes it smell disgusting, which repulses MANY people from throwing out their trash. So, by washing it out every other week, you could increase usage of the bin.
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