Introduction
There are too many paper napkins in America. There are paper
napkins and plastic knifes and plastic forks and plastic spoons in PSU. I can
use them anytime. When I came PSU’s cafeteria I was surprised by that. For
this project I chose to research recycling in Oregon because I became
interested in environment when I was elementary school student. I have
heard in Japan “American people don’t have an interest about environment.”
When I heard this, I was surprised very much. I thought, ‘Don’t they do
recycling?’ I never have heard about American recycling. I have heard about
amount of fast food store’s garbage rather than recycling.
Oregon has a lot of nature. Oregon is first state begin Bottle Bill all
over the world. But garbage isn’t always separated when it is gathered.
Much garbage comes out by fast food stores. They have paper cups, papers,
straws, table napkins, the remains of food, etc. Recently my country Japan
has many fast food stores. But I think I have more opportunities here in the
U.S. to use paper stuffs than I was in Japan. One example is table napkins. I
used cloth napkin in Japan at home, but now I am using lots of paper napkin
in host family’s house. I don’t know why American people use paper napkin.
Perhaps it’s custom in America. Perhaps it’s easy for busy American.
Environment is very interesting topic for me. I was interested about
environment from before I came here because if we used all resources all over
the world we can’t live. But someday all resources will be nothing. So I want
Recycling in Oregon
Winter 3/22/2006
3/22/2006
Introduction
There are too many paper napkins in America. There are paper
napkins and plastic knifes and plastic forks and plastic spoons in PSU. I can
use them anytime. When I came PSU's cafeteria I was surprised by that. For
this project I chose to research recycling in Oregon because I became
interested in environment when I was elementary school student. I have
heard in Japan "American people don't have an interest about environment."
When ...