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Date: November 14, 2010 To: Dan Smith, Manager From: Cedes Vo Subject: Help the environment by recycling

We are wasting resources, time, and energy on our current system of disposing trash at the store. With the amount of customers that use the lottery slips for only one time, lottery tickets, and the amount of beverages people consume it is safe to say we are increasingly our carbon footprint. Also, the amount of cardboard boxes that comes along with our inventory is wasted when it is thrown into the trash daily. Since our environment is currently in bad shape due to all the excess waste, constant production, and use of resources, we need to reduce our footprint by recycling.

By beginning to recycle, we would be helping the environment by sorting our disposables for trash companies. With so many opportunities to recycle and organize our waste, we will be contributing to the reduction of energy, time, and resources put into production nationwide. We can start off with recycling all the cardboard boxes our inventories come in by requesting a recycles-only large trash bin. To take it a step further, we can also have a recycles-only trash bin for our customers in front of the store. With a recycles-only trash bin nearby, customers are encouraged to dispose any paper slips or lottery tickets, plastic bottles, glass bottles and aluminum cans in the appropriate trash bin. To earn some money, we can gather all the recyclables together weekly and dispose them in the recycling center located across the street from our store.

As you can see, by playing are part as humans that live on this earth, we would be helping out our environment. Overall, we would be reducing our carbon footprint, using less energy and resources for production, contributing to helping the environment and earning a little incentive while recycling. This is a great opportunity for us to help our home, and in which I will be willing to take the extra steps into getting the appropriate trash bins and recycling them across the street. Please contact me if you have any questions and if you are interested in this proposal.

Best Regards,

Cedes Vo


 * 28: I find this letter both informative and persuasive. However, i feel as though it is not persuasive enough. Because of the lack of credibility and the lengthy sentences, i would simply say "wow i should do something about recycling more," but then would put down the letter and then forget about it after an hour or so. try to send out some urgency to the topic.

Edited by 006952374 It sounds like wrote a very persuasive letter. Your letter is broken down into three separate and meaningful sections. The beginning though lacks some intriguing insight. I would suggest asking a purposeful question in the introduction instead of firing off negative comments. Everything else seems to grab the readers attention. The body of the letter clearly states facts and illustration about the issue. The conclusion connects the whole letter as a whole and ends with a formal closing.

Reviewed by #27 I agree with your view of reducing our carbon footpring and recycling to help the environment but I'm not completely convinced with your letter. It is very informative about how you can improve your workplace's system of throwing away trash but there is not really an incentive to other then it will help the environment. Many people know it is good to recycle because of these reasons you have given but don't. I suggest you give a more direct benefit to your workplace to persuade your manager.