tailieunhanh - Express yourself part 8

Do you see how the visual impact of the pie chart registers just how big a chunk of landfill garbage is paper waste alone? Now imagine listening to this data being recited. Each person generates more than four pounds of garbage each day of his or her life. Each year, Americans receive almost four million tons of junk mail with 44% never even opened. If only 100,000 people stopped their junk mail, we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees. Americans also. | What s in Our Trash Food Waste 7 Metals 9 Other 12 Glass 7 Plastics 8 Paper 40 Yard Trimmings 18 Do you see how the visual impact of the pie chart registers just how big a chunk of landfill garbage is paper waste alone Now imagine listening to this data being recited. Each person generates more than four pounds of garbage each day of his or her life. Each year Americans receive almost four million tons of junk mail with 44 never even opened. If only 100 000 people stopped their junk mail we could save up to 150 000 trees annually. If a million people did this we could save up to a million and a half trees. Americans also throw away the equivalent of 30 million trees in newsprint each year. And when you consider that 85 of our garbage is sent to the landfill where it can take from 100-400 years for things to decompose you realize that we are leaving our children a lot of garbage Think how much easier it would be to understand all those numbers if you could only see some of them in relation to what they meant. What if the speaker used the following graphics to display the highlights of his data as he spoke 59 Writing FOR Persuasive Speaking express yourself The average family receives 4 000 000 tons of junk mail each year 150 000 trees could be saved if only 100 000 Americans stopped their junk mail. It can take 100-400 years for 85 of our garbage to decompose. Recycling newspapers for one year could save four trees. 60 EXPRESS YOURSELF Writing FOR Persuasive Speaking Looking for an effective conclusion the speaker might want to remind his audience of the main point of his persuasion which was to promote reducing reusing and recycling waste. His conclusion would also be aimed at telling his audience what they might do to vitalize the effort. So rather than rely on words alone he prepared this graphic to display as he concluded REDUCE BUY GOODS IN BULK. IT TAKES MORE MATERIAL TO PACKAGE PRODUCTS IN SMALL QUANTITIES. READ MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS ONLINE. REUSE INSTEAD