Tess McMillan
4/22/15
Importance of Recycling

Recycling can be for everyone. People that learn to recycling can help save the environment by helping saving the trees, the animals and their lives, and also help stop polution in the world. Learning to recycle can be easy and fun. Households can make a game out of it between people in the household. Knowing how and what to recycle can also teach responsibility to children within the household. Landfills are dirty and nasty. Landfills also polute the environment by pushing trash into the earth. They also burn the trash and let off gases into the enviroment. Animals can be affected by landfills.
Recycling can be easy or you can make it hard. Each person have to learn exactly how and what to do. Take five trash cans then mark each one of them with the marker saying cans, paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum. The reason for the aluminum cans and aluminum foal because you can sell these for profit. Now figuring out where to take it. When they are full take them to the local recycling post. You can google or call your city office to find out where they are located. Recycling is just knowing and learning something new. Rinse the cans from vegtables can help keep bugs away while you wait for the bag or can to get full. Family can teach their kids to recycle and make a game out of it. Children likes to figure out new things. When you burn your trash at home think about all the pollution you put in the air is awful. If everyone burned their trash that would make a lot of polution in the air. Would it not be better for the environment to just recycle?
Some of the fact about recycling paper is for “Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save: 3.5 cubic yards of landfill,17 thirty foot (pulp) trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 4100 kwh of energy.” I would say that people do not think about this because I did not before my research. “And, at the same time eliminate 60 pounds of air pollutants.”(2014 Green Waste) So, you can save a lot of trees and land just by recycling.
Landfills filling up all across America everyday from people just throwing trash away. Landfills are dirty and nasty. Landfills just put trash back into the ground. Landfills can also kill animals. Animals crawl into the trash bags and can suffocate and die. Mrs. Green says “RC Litter can be harmful to wildlife and people. Broken bottles can injure small animals and birds because they can get stuck inside bottles, cans and other smallcontainers. Animals and birds get stuck in plastic bags. Any wildlife can eat litter by mistake which can cause death because of some of the bacteria within the trash..” She also states that “RC Landfill takes up space that could otherwise be a wildlife habitat. It also gives off harmful emissions including methane and produces toxic slime called leachate which harms the environment for all of us. “(Mrs. Green2014 MY ZERO WASTE) People driving by or just being near landfills can tell there are landfills near because of the nasty smell from all the trash. “Waste in landfills emit gases as it rots. This can pollute the environment. Anyone who has passed a landfill site during hot weather will be familiar with the smell and flies that can be found near a landfill site. Reducing the items in landfills will help to reduce the pollution that it causes. Recycling products also typically emits less carbon, thus reducing the carbon footprint of a product.”(Kate Pullen 2006-2014 LoveToKnow Corp) “About one-third of an average dump id made up of packaging materials. Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.”(2005Recycling-Revolution.com)
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