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how might banning the use of heavily littered items, mitigate the…
how might banning the use of heavily littered items, mitigate the detrimental impacts pollution has on Springfield
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producktion of litter
a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation from production has projected that plastic production will continue to increase 25-billion-metric-ton mark in 2050.(Macaso, Mark Edrian) ( shows that the production of plastic will only increase as time goes by)
According to the estimates only 9% of the plastics that have ever been produced is recycled while 79% sits in landfills, or worse, gets leaked into the environment.(Macaso, Mark Edrian)( shows that people and recycling and putting plastics and recyclables in the wrong place )
Plastic bags are used by over 44,000 retailers all over Jordan ranging from bakeries to fast food and electronics ( how many businesses use plastic bags)
(Saidan, Motasem N)
The plastic industry in Jordan was made known by about 80 plastic firms and where about 2,800 people are engaged in plastic bags production( how many people work with plastic bags and how many firms there are)
(Saidan, Motasem N)
Consumers in Jordan use about 3 billion plastic bags per year which means that the consumption in Jordan refers on average to 500 bags per person per year( the amount of plastic bags people use in a year)
(Saidan, Motasem N)
Based on studying consumers capabilities the Moe has estimated that the percentage of the thin and small bags used in Jordan is about 60 % including all types of plastic bags but excludes the carrier bags type which forms only 40 %. Hence, the average consumption of the small and thin bags on annual basis equals to 1.800 billion, while that of the carrier bags is 1.200 billion bags.(Saidan, Motasem N)
Carrier bags that are used to carry multiple items by 32,000 retailers like the large shopping stores such as C-Town, Carrefour, Safe way and other large supermarkets which supply about 41 % (1.23 billion) of the total plastic bags distributed to consumers.(Saidan, Motasem N)
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One in six water bottles are recycled( statistic of how many water bottles are recycled/ problem of recycling)
(EPA)
Landfilling of waste has decreased from 94 percent of the amount generated in 1960 to 50 percent of the amount generated in 2018.( shows how much we have decreased in landfilling of waste)(US EPA)
Female tend to show a greater preference towards the use of plastic bags when it comes to business( females tend to use plastic bags more)(Macaso, Mark Edrian)
psychology
students were also asked why people litter, whether there are groups that litter and towards the end of the focus group were prompted with the question “Is your waste behavior affected by your friends? If so, how?”.Paired sample tests displayed in Table 1 shows that self reported recycling increased.Table 2 also shows a strong grouping in perceived norms of friends’ littering and recycling behavior and in recycling encouragement.(Jennifer)
The average recycling behavior was a major predictor of residualized change in recycling scores when statistically adjusting for gender and school year and remained significant when perceived friend recycling norms or friend encouragement for recycling were entered In other words, a one unit increment in friends’ average recycling score was related to a 1.33 unit increment in recycling score beyond what would be expected based on scores, gender and school year.(Jennifer)
When encouraged by friends to recycle was a significant predictor of residualized recycling behavior when statistically adjusting for gender, school year and friend's average behavior, relating to a 0.92 unit residualized change in recycling after accounting for other covariates. Perceived norms of friends’ recycling behavior was not a significant predictor of residualized recycling behavior, nor did it improve model fit.(Jennifer)
example Charmaine comments that “I will recycle but I think within my group there are people like, if they don't see someone else recycling they'll be like, aw nah that's ok I'll just leave it on the ground this time”Senior Girls(Jennifer)
example, Jayden confessed how it affects his own behavior: “Well I saw other people doing it and it made sense, it's like oh it's just going to bio, you know degrade and it's just going to help the trees there, so” Senior Boys 3. (Jennifer)
why banning might work
The city of Plano spends 500,000 each year om litter pick up( shows the amount spent of clean up )
(by the city of plano)
In texas on your first offense of littering cost 500$ and on your second cost up to 2000$ and can land you in jail for 180 days ( shows repercussions of littering)
(by the city of plano)
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people will still find something to litter if throwing it out in the proper place is inconvient for them
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