Recycle! Go Green!
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There are many issues the Green Party supports, one being recycling. Recycling has been an issue for many, many years. Although it has been included in lesson plans in the school system to teach children early on, starting in elementary school, it continues to be an on-going problem. Parents need to take a more active role in recycling so their children will continue recycling into their adult years.
With today’s economy many people have turned to recycling to make a little extra money. These people that put their pride aside and go along the streets late at night the night before trash pick up or early in the morning the day off to sift through people’s garbage looking for recyclable goods. They will then take their collection of goods to a local recycling center and get reimbursed cash for it.
Is it really that hard to recycle? Many would say yes, but please, how hard is to have an extra trash can or bin next to your garbage can to collect recyclable products. Recycling centers accept aluminum, glass, plastic, and paper. You can either use one bin to collect the products or separate bins for each type of recyclable. At the end of the week either set the container on the side of the street on trash pick up day or take your collection to the local recycling center. Or, if you know of someone who does collect recyclables for extra income, why not call them and have them collect the items from you.
Look for the “Recyclable” symbol on the products that are recyclable. There are many recycling symbols but the most commonly used one is the symbol with three moving arrows forming a triangle. The Green Party has many ideas and articles on how to recycle. Everyone, everywhere, can recycle. Do the right thing and help the environment. Go Green!!
Iraqi War and Peace
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War and Peace. Not only a title of a famous book but it is also an issue that the Green Party strongly stands by. There isn’t one person that loves war, but many who feel that war is the answer to settle disputes between nations. Not only are many lives lost of those that fight the wars but there are many lives of innocent people indirectly involved in the war that are lost. Many men, women, and children are killed by bombs and enemy fire.
As of September 7, 2010 the total number of deaths in the Iraqi War was 4,418, with 3,495 of those deaths in combat. With that, there have been approximately between 97,000 to 106,000 documented civilian deaths in Iraq. Those are innocent victims that did not have a choice and unfortunately had to pay the price.
The cost of the Iraqi War is over $150 billion a year, yes “billion”. It costs approximately $390,000 to deploy a soldier to Iraq for just one year. That is an absurd amount money for a war and it certainly doesn’t compensate for the life lost of even one of the soldiers.
Many families are losing a son or daughter, niece or nephew, brother or sister? Think of the little children that have to see their Mom or Dad leave for a long period of time or never come back. When reading articles on both sides there are good points brought to our attention. But, the bottom line is, no human life is worth losing over a war, American or not.
There have been many wars, and with that, many people who oppose war. The Green Party stands by their position that war is not effective or justifiable to settle disputes among nations and strongly urges the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq with the assistance of the UN Coalition.