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ARGUEMENT: Honourable Delegates and Member Nations of the UN, we feel that resolution #13 is flawed insofar as the scope of what it mandates recycling for is too limited. Hence we propose the following to repeal resolution #13 - "MANDATORY RECYCLING".


NOTING: That UN resolution 13 - "MANDATORY RECYCLING" lacks scope in achieving its desired goals in the present and future generations. In a literal sense, its statement calls for recycling of paper, glass, aluminium and batteries ONLY.
This ignores other recyclable products or by-products that exists today and will exist in future, including but not limited to...
>> Tin and other recyclable metals
>> Cardboard boxes and other packing materials
>> Food, beverage and other plastic containers and other recyclable plastic items
>> Inkjet and Toner cartridges, Magnetic Reels, CD ROMs and other computer media
>> Monitors, computers and other electrical equipment


NOTING FURTHER: That due to these shortcomings, corporations have been found to, without breaching resolution 13, completely neglect ethical practice of recycling recyclable items not covered under resolution 13.


RECOGNIZING: "MANDATORY RECYCLING", proposed by Techno prisoners, as a precedent to improve world's environment.


RECOGNIZING FURTHER: The following major environmental problems on hand:
>> The rapid increase in industrial, bio and general waste in many member nations
>> The lack of space and efforts to dispose off the waste and the practice of dumping garbage in poor nations by other nations
>> The Lack of knowledge or efforts to recycle items those are recyclable at a reasonable cost, by some UN member nations


REPEALS: Resolution 13 - "MANDATORY RECYCLING", implemented: Thu May 8 2003, to make way for a resolution that addresses the above concerns.

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(OOC: This is my first time, please be gentle with me :) [Shahid])

There is no such thing as being gentle with a newbie - you just don't get the personality insults :D

If people in general like the idea, I will formally write a resolution to be proposed.

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Greetings from The Republic of Jusma Kullailie,

Branding, you can't mention yourself

One of our inquisitive citizens, trying to find ways improve the degrading quality of environment in the world, stumbled upon

Remove up to here, modify the rest of the sentance accordingly.

Resolution #13, which we feel is outdated in todays world.

Indeed

The resolution, in a literal sense, mentions that only paper, glass, aluminum and batteries be recycled, but ignores other recyclable products used today and to be used in future.

If we get to a second draft, I will be editing this paragraph - but it's purpose works for now

Many big business houses have been found to use loopholes in their country's policies to abstain from reducing wastage and pollution with sole interest in their earnings.

Good

Hence in the interest of the world and future generations, we humbly request all other member nations of the UN to discuss their views and to make suggestions or comments, so that a resolution may be passed smoothly.

Remove. By the time this is at vote, this debate is over, we are discussing whether to pass it

If the following suggestions are not too extreme in general view, we will also propose it, in addition to the above, in the interest of good environment.

Is this even a draft proposal?

1. Recognize 'ASH' as one of the largest pollutants in the world and to make it mandatory for all UN member nations to recycle it into bricks (techniques already known).

2. Promote R & D and support business houses to use or produce as much recyclabe products as possible.

3. Promote general awareness about recycling and make it mandatory for every citizen of UN member nations to seperate wet and dry waste at residence itself.

No - businesses you can push one way or the other, residences....it's not worth the effort to force everyone to recycle. It's just plain easier to raise awareness

4. Make it mandatory for all businesses in UN member nations to use recyced inputs where available.

5. Promote R & D to invent techniques to recycle those waste that are at present not recyclable, but has a possibility.

Oh, I like that one
Eg: Trying to recycle bio waste into some thing useful after disinfecting it.

6. Ban as many Plastic items as possible and used substitutions.

Ew. Plastic is useful and fully recycleable (well.....in most cases at least)

Eg: Use paper bags instead of Plastic bags.

Plastic bags are fully recyclable.......

6B: In the event that the above is too extreme, ban very thin plastic since they don't last long, are wasted more and are also more harmful to the environment.

Not sure......

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Honestly, take those 6 points, set them aside for the replacement. Nuke the repeal and go in the format:

Intro (Honored Delegates, we feel that resolution 13 is flawed insofar as the scope of what it mandates recycling for is too limited - though more verbose)
Body - just note things that could be protected or areas that we could legislate further in (for that, you can list off possible things listed on your list of 6 - though there's a lot of things not on your list or covered by resolution 13)
Note that no improved resolution can be voted on while the current resolution is still on the books (maybe take a page out of Euroslavia's book)

Thank you very much for the tip man. It wasn't supposed to be a proposal. Was just inviting suggestions for a proposal.

I'll get to work soon and edit the post with a proper resolution.

OK, I edited a proposal. I think I got it right this time, but not sure :P

shahid i will endorse your proposal but tell me how to do it dude :)

shahid i will endorse your proposal but tell me how to do it dude :)

Thank You O ruler of Sarcasm. I have however not yet formally proposed the proposal. First I have to get the support of various delegates such as yourself to achieve a qourum. Then it is voted as a resolution to be passed by all UN member nations. I will keep you informed on the status.


In the mean time, please give your inputs and suggestions on the draft proposal.

Thank You!

Ok:
1) Your first two lists - change them from alphabetic lists to bullet lists
2) I'm concerned about length. There is an unfortunate character length limit. As such, I would like to suggest that should you hit that character length, you change the "Aiming to blah blah blah", change it to "repeals resolution 13 to make way for a resolution that addresses the above concerns." or something along those lines. That SHOULD drop you under the limit.

Okie dokie, I got the proposal down to about 1 page, 300 words and less that 2000 chars. Will go through once again to see if I can shorten it further.

I had also modified the third point under RECOGNIZING FURTHER:, so a few more words added there.

Hmm, I think I can reduce a few more redundant words. But do I still need to bring it down further or is the limit ok?

We would like to know about the views of other UN Member Nations and their delegates on this Repeal proposal. Please help us in making the world environment a little better.

Thank You!

I should note, shorter is better (I have seen people vote against things because of length - and people are starting to not read some of my things for the same reason), but you're well under the character limit

I should note, shorter is better (I have seen people vote against things because of length - and people are starting to not read some of my things for the same reason), but you're well under the character limit

I think, I'll cut the crap out of it. What's round two?? Getting support of UN delegates?

I think, I'll cut the crap out of it. What's round two?? Getting support of UN delegates?

When you've finalized the repeal proposal, please send me a message and I can provide some help with getting Delegate support for the repeal.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

When you've finalized the repeal proposal, please send me a message and I can provide some help with getting Delegate support for the repeal.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

Thank You for your support Texan Hotrodders. We have sent one of our officials at once to your nation with a full kilo of our special delicacy Sea Cow Meat. We were very impressed with your Economic rating, despite being a member of the UN. Although the state of environment in your nation didn't impress us to the full extent.

We would like to let you know that, the current proposal is the final one, unless there is major opposition to it. (or if we can find a smaller sentence for point 2 under RECOGNIZING FURTHER)

Request advice on whether to officially apply for a Repeal in the UN.

Thank You for your support Texan Hotrodders. We have sent one of our officials at once to your nation with a full kilo of our special delicacy Sea Cow Meat. We were very impressed with your Economic rating, despite being a member of the UN. Although the state of environment in your nation didn't impress us to the full extent.

Thank you kindly. It takes significant effort to maintain rankings such as the ones in my nation. The environment...well...there are a few nature preserves hosted by private citizens, but population expansion and certain cultural imperatives require a lot of pavement.

We would like to let you know that, the current proposal is the final one, unless there is major opposition to it. (or if we can find a smaller sentence for point 2 under RECOGNIZING FURTHER)

I have no major opposition to it. I would simply like to see the resolution repealed, ragardless of how it's done.

Request advice on whether to officially apply for a Repeal in the UN.

I have no objections, but would suggest that you wait until aproximately 27 hours from now to propose it so that it has a good place in the proposal queue.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

...The environment...well...there are a few nature preserves hosted by private citizens, but population expansion and certain cultural imperatives require a lot of pavement.

We truly understand your situation since even we have occassionally had that issue and we have just 1/3rd of your population.



As for the opposition, I was referring to other Monetary Exploiting, Good Environment hating rulers.

A few mistakes that I can see

>> Aluminium, Tin and other recyclable metals

You just listed that aluminum was covered by the initial resolution.

>> Monitors, computers and other electrical equipments

equipments->equipment


>> The Lack of knowledge or efforts to recycle many in some UN member nations

I'm guessing stick a "by" before many - though putting "items" behind many works so whichever is the intended message.

I am done editing. Now I think it's on to the final step.

Do I need to be a UN delegate or can I be a UN member with at least 2 endorsements to propose/repeal a resolution.

Do I need to be a UN delegate or can I be a UN member with at least 2 endorsements to propose/repeal a resolution.

You just need two endorsements.