Recycle: It’s your duty

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Americans, and the world at large, create astonishing amounts of garbage each year. Over twenty-one million plastic bags, and thirty six billion aluminum cans fill our landfills every year .Why can’t people take the time to recycle? It is such an important environmental issue, and yet it seems as though there aren‘t enough people out there who want to make a difference. Most of us know that recycling is graet for the environment, but when we go home, we often leave the work someone else to do in order to make a differnce. Most people just don’t take this issue seriously, unless they have to. When we take a look at recycling and understand the process, it’s really amazing that we can take a used item and return it to it’s original condition so that it may be reused! Its hard to believe that the average american disposes of

When you look at the process of how to recycle, its really a blessing that we can take a used item and return back to its original condition so that it can be reused. As astonishing as it may seem, the average las vegan disposes of ____________________pounds of waste per day, whici is about ______ pounds per year.

Most people already know that recycling helps conserve natural resources, On the other hand, few know that recycling waste products conserves water, energy, trees, and helps reduce pollution in our drinking water and air.

It takes far less energy to make new products than it does to make them from entirely new materials. Every pound of steel that you recycle will save enough energy to light a 60-watt bulb for more than a day! A recycled pound of plastic will keep the same bulb aglow for 48 hours straight. Even that empty coke bottle that you so thoughtlessly recycled will store more ...

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...blished in the Encyclopedia of Earth October 18, 2006; Last revised August 21, 2008; Retrieved December 6, 2009].

Some places have a national reydscle day, and although every little bit helps, we need more than a day to bring this issue to the forefront/

For every ton of paper that is recycled, 17 trees live

The decision to implement fines is seen as the next logical step for those residents who simply refuse to use their blue boxes

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People always look for coupons in the mail, and proceed top trake them to their grocery storer of choice and end up hopiong that they meet the criteria to get a discount. Well what if we did the same thing with reciceabl eitem s I’m sure moms would flock in droves if the y simply broght their childs old can of formula and recided a sdicount towarssa the purchsae of another one. The consumer than is sat

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