AP English Language and Composition Quiz
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REASONING AND ORGANIZATION: WRITING
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Read the following passage and answer the question.
The city's new recycling campaign tells residents to "do your part," but it never explains what part actually matters. Posters show smiling families rinsing jars, as if cleanliness alone turns waste into resources. Meanwhile, the sanitation department reports that nearly a quarter of our recycling stream is contaminated—mostly by plastic bags and food-soiled paper—which forces entire loads to be landfilled.
If the goal is to reduce landfill use, the campaign should stop treating recycling as a moral identity and start treating it as a system with failure points. First, the city should publish a short "top five contaminants" list on every bin and mailer, using pictures rather than slogans. Second, it should add bag-collection drop boxes at grocery stores, because telling people "never bag recyclables" without offering an alternative is a setup for noncompliance. Third, the city should report contamination rates by neighborhood monthly, so residents can see whether changes are working.
Guilt is a weak fuel. Feedback is a stronger one.
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