Reviewed Paragraph: Comparison & Contrast

Recycling has been identified as one way to conserve resources. How might the approach to recycling differ between a developed country and a developing country? Choose two specific countries to illustrate your answer. The recycling procedure of developed countries is systematically arranged. For example, in Japan, garbage is separated into three types, burnable, non-burnable and recyclable. At least two kinds of disposable bins can be found at most places in Japan. This phenomenon can be hardly seen in developing countries. For instance, in most of the cities of China, the citizens do not categorize the kinds of trashes and not even make use of the rubbish bin provided. The habit of throwing rubbish everywhere exists due to the poor education of recycling among people. Engineers in Japan have now mastered the skill to recycle cell phone parts (“Gizmodo Team,” n.d.). Furthermore, the electronics recycling there is being processed under controlled conditions. In “E-Waste Around The Globe”(n.d. para.4), it is stated that in order to protect our atmosphere from the poisonous chemical, plastics must not be recycled. However, we cannot find any such controls in developing countries. Workers, even worse children, use their hands to do the recycling job in scrap yards. Developing countries often do not have the skills or infrastructure to deal with electronic waste safely. Like the area of Guiyu in China, people manually dismantle printer. This shocks the reporters of New York Times as they know the consequence of touching those chemical by hands, do not even mention how affecting the neighbouring communities and environment (E-Waste Around The Globe, n.d. para.10). In the end, recycling turns into a bad process instead of a good process. Reference: E-Waste Around The Globe (n.d.). Retrieved February 16, 2008, from http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/recycling_of_waste_materials/index.html?query=THIRD%20WORLD%20AND%20DEVELOPING%20COUNTRIES&field=des&match=exacthttp://gizmodo.com/gadgets/recycled-parts/japanese-researchers-recycle-old-cell-phone-parts-into-pcs-325822.php Gizmodo Team(n.d.). Retrieved February 16, 2008, from