Read the explicit meaning of the text:

recycling and composting reduce waste.

which textual evidence supports the explicit meaning?

a.) "this prevented the release of approximately 168 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the air in 2012-equivalent to taking over 33 million cars off the road for a year."

b.) "in 2012, newspaper/mechanical papers recovery was about 70 percent (5.9 million tons), and about 58 percent of yard trimmings were recovered."

c.) "municipal solid waste more commonly known as trash or garbage-consists of everyday items we use and then throw away."

d.) "recycling is the recovery of useful materials, such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals."

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Read the excerpt from how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale. which idea does the author develop with the text example cited in the excerpt ?

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a.something someone else is writing about b.a fact c.something you have written about before