Argumentative Essay Outline:
Introduction:
Hook:
A river is polluted with trash and the water and air are
dark grey because of the run-off chemicals from the e-waste being burned nearby
because no one has use for it. This river is not part of an imaginary story
from a fairytale. This river is part of our reality, caused by the impact of
e-waste onto developing countries.
Background:
E-waste is electrical and electro-equipment that have been
discarded. Currently, people often throw away their old appliances such as
televisions, computers, wires, etc. Although when these are thrown away,
recyclers are to recycle all the materials that have been used. But instead,
the e-waste is send over seas to developing countries for it be recycled; where
it creates negative environment impacts and allows for the discussion of
developed countries for where or not, it’s racist to send it over seas to developing
countries, in Asia and Africa.
Thesis:
-The effects of
violence of inefficient recycling should be re-examined by developed countries
because it promotes e-waste, negative environmental impacts and environmental
racism.
Developing your argument:
Claim #1: Inefficient
Recycling promotes e-waste
Evidence:
a. Products
created by companies are “designed for the dump” as in they are replaceable.
This is due to inefficient design made by the designers of the product.
b. Recycling
e-waste creates a false hope because the “recycling being done, is not
efficient. The e-waste recycling is not being done in developed countries
because it exposes toxics and harmful chemicals into the atmosphere to people
who live close by. The e-waste instead is being sent overseas to people in
developing countries ex. Qiyui China.
c. The form of
recycling being done is inefficient and harmful to where people are taking
apart the wires to get the metals inside and then burn the plastic. This allows
for a system of buying items for a time and then throwing it away or to be
“recycled” some place where it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind.
- Inefficient design problems and results contributing to
e-waste.
Claim #2: E-waste
promotes negative environmental impacts
Evidence:
a. By burning the
e-waste after retrieving the metals, it allows for CO2 to be expelled in the
atmosphere and polluting the air quality, this leads to respiratory cancer in
the lungs and pre-mature babies.
b. The e-waste
that has no further value outside the metal or materials is easily thrown away,
creating large amounts of landfills of useless piles of garbage.
c. Water
pollution is extremely high, because of the CO2, mercury, and flame retarded
being exposed into the water by the e-waste that was not used.
- This needs
descriptive details on more negative environmental impacts.
Claim #3: E-waste
promotes Environmental Racism
Evidence:
a. The e-waste
being produced by developing countries is being sent over to developing
countries, these countries are located in Asia and Africa.
b. The value of
life is of lesser value in developing countries than those in developed
countries. People in developing countries are worth only 1/15 the amount of a
person in developed countries.
c. The placement
of this e-waste causes concern whether or not if it is a cultural design problem
to place waste in areas where the value of that area and the people in in are
of lesser value.
-Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental
Inequality by Peter Newell
-Violent Environments by Nancy Lee Peluso and
Michael Watts
-The dominant and subordinate groups on a global
perspective
Refuting Opponents’ Arguments:
Opposing View #1:
E-waste is good for business; it creates jobs and income for
people and profit for the company.
Refutation 1:
E-waste does impact business as it allows the general public
to consume their goods, by providing jobs and income for people so they can buy
their product. Although the health hazards that are happening because of the
harmful materials, being used in the production and recycling process, e-waste
recycling exposes people to harmful chemicals that effect their health with
life long effects.
-
Need more research on what chemicals and how
they are affecting people specifically.
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Opposing View #2:
Why should the companies and business have to deal with it?
It’s not the CEO’s or employee’s problem.
Refutation 2
While it is not the CEO’s and employees’ fault for the
e-waste, it is the lack of efficient design being made to keep the products
away from being thrown away so easily. By having these products being cheaply
but costly made, the designers working for the companies can create more
without it affecting themselves. Unless they were in the situation where it negatively
affects them then they have to fix the design of the product before it becomes
e-waste and becoming a part of inefficient recycling.
-
-Violent Environments by Nancy Lee
Peluso and Michael Watts
Conclusion:
-Inefficient recycling causes people in developed countries
to depose of e-waste without it being a concern of theirs. This leads in the lack
of knowledge from the developed countries, since they are creating the “designed
for the dump” product and buy a new product because the old one has to be
thrown away, it becomes an out of sight, out of mind. By sending e-waste
overseas, it impacts people in developing countries who don’t have the means to
properly recycle e-waste and allowing pollution to grow because there is no
value to the materials not being used for their metals or materials.
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