Title: The Harms of Disposable Diapers General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To discourage the audience from using disposable diapers. Pattern of organization: Refutative Would rather use disposable diapers. Nothing wrong with disposable.B)Well, in reality there are negative effects from using disposable diaper that can affect the environment and the health of you and your children. C) Do best for family D) Educate on the impact that producing, using, and disposing II BodyA)Production impact1)Environmental and health concerns right to doorstep. Chop down four or five trees to make 500 kg of fluffy wood pulp baby will use in 2 years. (Catherine McDiarmid, 1997 "Environmental Concerns") Then you will need just for your child, over 2,800 cubic meters of nonrenewable natural gas to make 325 kg of plastic for the waterproof backing and packaging for the 6,000 disposable diapers your child will use.2)(Jane McConnell, 1998, " The Joy of Cloth Diapers") It takes about 82,000 tons of plastic and a quarter million trees to manufacture the disposable diapers that cover the bottoms of 90% of the babies born in the U.S. each year.3)(The Canadian Cloth Diaper Association, 1997, "The Facts: Cloth Versus "Disposable" Diapers) For the convenience of using disposable diapers, you are helping release wastewater produced by processing the pulp, paper and plastic that contains solvents, sludge, heavy metals, unreacted polymers, dioxins, and furans that will make their way into your neighborhood air and water. B)Health hazards1) Forget environment, toxic chemicals and baby. (Candace Brecevic, 2000, "Disposing of Disposables") Newborn skin has an underdeveloped outer layer, through which chemicals are more readily absorbed and into the fat cells.2) (Jane McConnell, 1998, "The Joy of Cloth Diapers") Disposable diapers subjects your babies skin to a chemical by-product of the paper bleaching process known as Dioxin. Trace quantitie...
