No Trash Left Behind
Forced Recycling Costs Consumers is written by Grant W. Schaumburg Jr. and Katherine T. Doyle. This article is focused on proving that the Mandatory Recycling Act in New Jersey is ineffective. They have proven this by analyzing the benefits verses the downfalls of mandating recycling. They prove that recycling actually costs residents of New Jersey and cause damage to the environment. The article is written with a primarily ethos style of writing, with some logos to back up the authors’ accuracy in their claims. The authors’ using a dismal amount of pathos to maintain the reader’s attention and help engage the emotional appeal of the article. Consistency of the authors’ stand point is firm and unrelenting adding to the style and credibility of Schaumburg and Doyle. The article uses a good mixture of rhetoric to create an appealing and informational argument about the reality of the idea on mandatory recycling.
The main style of writing used in Forced Recycling Costs Consumers is ethos. Ethos has been described as the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer partly due to his or her character. At the end of the article, it states that Mr. Schaumburg is an investment manager living in Princeton, New Jersey and that Ms. Doyle is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University (Schaumburg). The fact the authors both live in Princeton, New Jersey gives them a credible standpoint for they are surrounded by the daily pressure of recycling. They also both work in a analytical setting, this gives them experience and the ability to pick apart information. Schaumburg and Doyle are sure to use easy to follow sentence structure and an appropriate vocabulary level, making the article appealing, precise, and believable; allowing a reader to simple trust what is being stated as common sense. The most apparent case or ethos is in the article is: “In evaluating mandatory recycling, one cannot simple total the resources the...