Is my argument convincing? Thanks for the feedback.

[Hauser]

If we want to save money on municipal garbage disposal fees, we need to encourage our residents to recycle more. Late last year, our neighboring town, Hayesworth, passed a law requiring that all households recycle paper and glass, or pay a fine. Since that time, Hayesworth has seen its garbage disposal costs significantly decrease. If we implemented an advertising campaign encouraging our residents to recycle, Masontown would also save money on disposal of its waste

The author claims that Masontown should encourage its residents to recycle in order to reduce garbage disposal cost. In order to support the claim, the author points out the recycling regulation that Hayesworth implemented on its residents. However, a careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little support for the author’s claim.

First, the author observes a correlation between residents’ recycling and reduction of waste disposal fee. However, he fails to rule out other contributing factors to the garbage disposal cost. For instance, it is entirely possible that garbage disposal company charges unusually high fee or perhaps concentrated business shops or factories in Masontown has high demand for garbage disposal. Without ruling out these possibilities, the author’s conclusion that residents’ recycling will reduce waste disposal cost is unjustified.

Secondly, the analogy of Hayesworth may not be strong enough to support the importance of residents’ recycling in decreasing garbage disposal fee. In order to compare Masontown with Hayesworth, the author has to prove that other respects such as size of the population, demographics of the population and industrial background of the town are similar to those of Masontown. It is probable that the number of population and business shops in Masontown is significantly higher than that of Hayesworth. Or perhaps, although Hayesworth was able to save money on garbage disposal fee, the recycling fee could have increased significantly increased.

Finally, the author assumes that advertising recycling campaign will motivate residents to recycle and it will eventually contribute to the decreased refuse disposal cost. The author did not rule out the possibility of the high advertisement fee. It is also possible that the recycling campaign may not motivate residents to increase the frequency of recycling.

In sum, without ruling out the above mentioned scenarios, the author’s claim remains unconvincing. In order to better support the claim, it will be helpful to know whether residents’ recycling will cause cost reduction of garbage disposal, whether Hayesworth has similar aspects in all area compare to Masonworth so that it could serve as a strong analogy and evidence to support that recycling campaign will motivate Masontown residents to recycle.

[sporty.arjun]

hey hauser.....good analysis here...however my comments are purely for the purpose of critiquing...your sentences are well formed...however when i saw the argument a few points came to my mind..



If we want to save money on municipal garbage disposal fees, we need to encourage our residents to recycle more. Late last year, our neighboring town, Hayesworth, passed a law requiring that all households recycle paper and glass, or pay a fine. Since that time, Hayesworth has seen its garbage disposal costs significantly decrease. If we implemented an advertising campaign encouraging our residents to recycle, Masontown would also save money on disposal of its waste

the town hayesworth passed a law to recycle glass and paper or else pay a fine...however it is not necessary that glass and paper are being used to that great an extent in mason town....

secondly, the reason the issue of fine has cropped up is probably because the residents of hayesworth did not keep their town clean and littered the place with paper and glass...
mason town on the other hand might be a very cultured and well mannered town not requiring such imposition of fines.

thirdly, the quantity of glass and paper produced may not be that great ...infact recycling it may increase the expenditures unneccesarily...instead they might use this material for other purposes such as vermicompost(paper can always be used)etc which might decrease costs and increase productivity...

these are my points ....c if u find them relevant,,.....

[Hauser]

thank you sporty.arjun for your feedback!