As I was walking down the street, I noticed them for the first time. They were everywhere. Who brought them? How long had they been there? These blue bins with cool triangles on the sides of them were taking over. I had heard of these things in school, but I didn’t realize how popular they were. Some have holes for cans or bottles, while others are for paper products. We have all been told that we should use them. Most of us have started to use them, but we don’t go out of our way to do it. Maybe we don’t realize how helpful recycling can be. Maybe we don’t care because we don’t think recycling affects us, but the truth is, recycling is beneficial to us environmentally, economically, and personally.
First of all, recycling is great for our environment. When we recycle, less raw materials are needed for manufacturing many products. This is good because it reduces the need for cutting down trees, drilling for oil, and mining for minerals. It is also good because the manufacturing of products from re
Recycling helps us personally because it creates more livable space on the earth. When we throw things away in regular trashcans, that trash gets picked up and taken to a landfill. Landfills are holes in the ground, lined with clay or plastic, which our trash goes in. These landfills do not help decompose our trash like compost piles. As a matter of fact, these landfills smother the decomposition process and may need up to thirty years of monitoring and managing even after the landfill site has been filled and shut down. When one landfill is filled, a new landfill is made. When that landfill gets full, yet another landfill must be made, and so on. If we go on this way, sooner or later our planet will be swarming with landfills. This means if we keep on throwing all the garbage we accumulate in the trash, our planet will eventually be full of garbage. There will be hardly any place for people to live with all the garbage everywhere. We might as well recycle and save ourselves from this horrible fate.
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