Plastics are a product that is very common in our everday usage. We use plastics everywhere ranging for Tupperware to the cars that we drive. Although most everyone has accepted the fact that plastics make our lives easier and has become essential to us, there are people out there who are perhaps unaware of how important plastics are to our society, or people who just don't approve of plastics because of its environmental harm. An advertisement in a Health Care magazine tries to convince this audience why plastics are needed and the usefulness of plastics. The advertisement tries to show its audience that plastics play an important role in our everyday lives and tries to make the audience question where we would be without the use of plastics. This advertisement, directed towards people that do not realize the usefulness of plastics or who do not approve of the use of plastics, through the use of pathos, logos, and ethos tries to persuade its audience that, "Plastics make it possible." The pathos plays on the audience's sympathy of why we should use plastics, the logos gives reasons how plastics are useful and why they are used in our society, and the ethos makes the audience feel that if unconvinced by the advertisement alone, there is more information available to them.
First and foremost seen in the advertisement is pathos. The advertisement grabs the audience's attention by showing a picture of a bunch of boys playing football. Knowing that the children are our future and that the children of today shape our tomorrow, many people are concerned with the problems of our younger generations and care a great deal about what happens to our younger generations. The advertisement does a good job of playing on the audience's emotions by involving children. Half of the advertisement is covered by the picture of a bunch of little boys playing football. The boys are wearing football helmets and look as though there is not one scratch on any one of them.
PLASTICS Plastics are man-made materials that can be shaped into almost any form. ... Most plastics are lightweight, flexible, durable and often colorful. ... The polymers in plastics are made up of small molecules called monomers. ... Generally, plastics can be classified as either thermoplastics or thermosetting plastics. ... However, as useful as they are, plastics do have drawbacks. ...
Plastics are polymers. ... Most thermoplastics plastics made from naphtha are addition polymers. ... Mixed plastics can be recycled into products such as fence posts, but it is much better to recycle the same type of plastics together. ... This coding system can be used to help identify plastics when separated by hand. ... The production and use of plastics have grown steadily over the years, yet the amount of oil used to make plastic is much less than when the first plastics were made. ...
Our goal is to demonstrate the competitiveness of the plastics industry and of plastics as a material. ... In 2000, 37.3% of plastics were used in the packaging industry. ... As a traditional plastics consumption industry, the automotive industry consumes 7.2% of plastics supplied. ... Plastics - At work for a sustainable future The following part of the report looks at the role of plastics in everybody's daily life and its image in society. ... Ongoing technological innovations in plastics producti...
A house is not always that big but the things that are in them today can be scary; lots of chemicals, plastics, gas, electricity and other materials increase the heat and make the fire grow faster. ... With the birth of new chemicals and plastics and other materials that are on furniture, rugs, lamps and cooking tools the common house can be a death trap for firefighters and the people who live in them, people must be educated on the products that are in their homes and want they can do when there is a fire. ... Figure 1: House on fire Every room with people going in and out of it most have a...
Hemp can be used for anything from plastics, to rope, to biodiesel; it is a very versatile crop. ... Hemp can be used for making plastics, ropes and creating a bio-diesel. Hemp oil can be used to create biodegradable plastics.The process by which hemp plastic is made is very similar to the process by which other plastics are made using crude oils. ... If it was legalized oil companies, the timber industry, the plastics industry and the chemical industry would start losing millions maybe even billions of dollars in revenues. ... This great plant has many great benefits from manufacturing enviro...
Plastics bags are popular for the consumer and retailer because they are cheap, strong, and we seem to unable to do anything without them. ... This is how the existence of the non-biodegradable plastics we use today was created. ... Plastics have been the most consumed materials of human societies in the recent decades (Zhou 80-86). ... A study done in Arizona landfills have shown, those plastics compounds don't degrade. ... Plastics bags are part of our life and they are key essential in our lives. ...
(Environment Council, 2000: 2,103) Nevertheless, by the chemic reasons of plastics, plastic is considered by people as one of the most difficult materials to recycle. ... Currently, there are several main methods by which plastics are recycled, however, none of them are suitable for every genus of plastics. ... Yet, many plastics cannot be recycled in this way, in that case, they need to pass through pre-treatment such as storage, sort, wash, dry and conditional process, and then be doing advanced and particular process. One example, polyvinylchloride (PVC) is one of the most common plastics w...
"BPA is an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1960's. BPA is found in polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Polycarbonate plastics are often used in containers that store food and beverages, such as water bottler. ... But after doing more extensive research, I have found there are some definite cons to having BPA in plastics. ... Furthermore, they insist that diligence by consumers when cleaning polycarbonate plastics can greatly decrease whatever risk is posed by the plastic, since avoiding bleach or alkali almost totally elimina...
