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Clean Up Our World

Imagine a world covered in garbage. It’s so dirty, we would have to wear special suits and masks. We would hardly have any clean drinking water. There would be no animals and the human race would decrease rapidly. The world would be a horrible place to live! That will be our future if we keep dumping trash into landfills. Recycling is the solution to our world wide crisis. Every single person needs to recycle. Recycling programs are becoming more and more popular. Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. People recycle for three main reasons: to save money, to help the environment, and to have planet Earth around long enough for our descendants. Recycling is for sure a good thing to do.

In the U.S. alone, garbage trucks pick up 133 million tons of solid waste annually. That is why the landfills are getting too full. New York’s landfills are so full, they are moving their trash to the midwest. Also, 14 million pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean every year. Pretty soon all that trash will get into our drinking water. Nobody wants to drink garbage! Of all the contents in the landfills, 40% is some kind of paper. Did you know paper can be recycled? If we recycle that paper, our landfills might not get as full. People must not put recyclable objects into the landfills.

Recycling does help environment. Most recyclable materials are not biodegradable. Biodegradable means to be able to be broken down into simple natural products or be decomposed by animals, fungi or bacteria. Instead of having the material staying on the Earth, it could be recycled and reused. Recycling does more then that. It conserves natural resources, decreases the emissions of the greenhouse effect, and decreases pollution. If we recycle, we could create 97% less water pollution. That is a lot to get rid of! It saves energy, too. Fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal will run out. We can’t help that, but we can save it as long as we can. Recyclingone ton saves the energy of 185 gallons of gasoline. Recycling saves three to five times the more energy then not recycling. Obviously, if we all recycle then we can preserve those fossil fuels for a couple of more years. Recycling does more then help the environment, it helps animals also. The Wildlife Services found that 90% of birds had some quantity of litter in their digestive tracts. That is a lot of birds dying because we were too lazy to recycle. The Wildlife Services also found out that over half of wildlife dies because of garbage. We all need to recycle.

Recycling does help and effect us, too. It produces 1.1 million jobs in U.S.A. alone. That could put a lot of unemployed citizens to work! There are also programs that don’t just recycle plastics, they reuse objects we use in everyday life such as clothes, baby bags, cribs, shoes, blankets and pillows, etc. For example, Freecycle is an entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and/or getting stuff for free! Everybody loves getting stuff for free! “It’s all about reusing and and keeping good stuff out of landfills,” claims their website ([|__www.freecycle.org__]). As you can see, recycling does help and effect us in many ways.

Some people don’t recycle because they don’t have time to bring it in, their community doesn’t have recycling programs, and many more unacceptable reasons. If we don’t recycle, then the landfills will get full and we will live and die in trash. Even a little recycling is better then none! If your community doesn’t have recycling programs, talk to your city council. We all must find ways to recycle.

There are many ways to use the three R’s (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle). You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to use these couple of ideas in our everyday life. One way is to put all your scraps into your garden to make the soil richer. You could also use the scraps as bedding for a pet. You don’t have to go buy any special tub for your recycling needs, you can make your own! If you have any extra tubs, you can use those. If your community has somewhere where you can donate your unneeded items, donate now. If your community doesn’t have that, then you write or e-mail to your government officials. The government gives out grants or funds to people like you and me to start a recycling program. Don’t just sit there, use the three R’s!

As you can tell, recycling is a good solution to move to. It saves the environment, helps us, and keeps things out of the landfill. Everyone needs to recycle to have a nice, clean planet for our future children and grandchildren. Start recycling today and help our own planet Earth live a while longer.

Paper Saver

One time when I was at school, there was a special day for recycling. That was a really fun day, for me anyways. I learned what you could and couldn’t recycle. Right when I got home that day I took all the things that could be recycled and put it in a card board box. It was a lot of fun. I wish all parents or even kids at least try to recycle because it does help. I’v had lots of fun learning about recycling and now I do it without even thinking. You could too. People around the world need to recycle to save money, help the environment, and have a better society.

Recycling is a great benefit to our world. We save money in the process, and it’s very easy to do. We also save or help the environment. It makes whoever or wherever you live look better and sound better. You can recycle paper, aluminum, bottles and plastics. We also save many resources if you recycle. There is also companies or programs for recycling so it’s a pretty big thing. The human race needs to start recycling more.

Recycling does help the environment. Some states in the U.S. set goals to produce less waste so their environment looks cleaner. Recycling does improve environmental problems such as to much waste, and most of all it just looks better. In the 1990’s people stopped recycling because they just didn’t want to, so people involved spent months looking for places to dump the trash. That’s not good at all! We need to recycle. After the crisis, people started to recycle again and we have improved. That is a great thing, but we need to keep improving on recycling and our environment will look better than ever!

Recycling helps save money. Everyone wants to save money right!? Well it’s not that hard to do. Some have said that governments reduce taxes for those of us who do recycle and increases it for those who don’t. Now you can also save money from the bottles and cans you recycle at your local grocery store. It might not be a whole lot of money, but it all builds up and all money counts. We are also saving more money by improving the amount of trees we use to make recycled and regular paper. So you can clearly see that recycling does save money.

Another reason we all should recycle is it helps society in many, many ways. First off, recycling just makes communities look better. As in cleaner and prettier. I’m sure nobody likes to live in a trashy environment. Let alone see it. Recycling allows jobs for many people around the world. Wherever recycling takes place so will one of there programs or recycling businesses. You can get a job and support your family. This is a great benefit for people out there who don’t have jobs. Another great way recycling does benefit society and ourselves is recycling doesn’t take intelligence. So, therefore you don’t need intelligence to recycle so we should just do it!

One complaint people say about recycling is it harms the environment and we waste our money. Well it doesn’t harm the environment because as I said we have improved on how many trees we use to make paper and that saves money. As well as the jobs your getting from the recycling programs your getting your money back. So when they say recycling is paid for by taxpayers there wrong. Another way there wrong is it’s a proven fact that recycling does make our communities look prettier and better. You for yourself can see that it does. So we don’t harm the environment, or waste our money by recycling. It’s the complete opposite of that.

Again recycling is a great thing to do. It helps the environment, we save money, and its a huge benefit to our society. If all these benefits come out of recycling why not encourage other people to do it. It’s a great way to start improving our bad habits. Why not start a recycling club or talk to your community or hometown about recycling more. You could even put a recycling bin in your own home. It’s truly not that hard. It will save a lot of animals and people. So next time you go to throw away a piece of paper, can, or bottle think about the 3-R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle.)