Recycling

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Many people are familiar with the term reduce, reuse, and recycle. This slogan has been around since the 1970’s and became popular when environmentalist informed Americans about the waste disposal crisis within our landfills. Since landfills were filling up extremely fast and the United States was on the brink of running out of landfill space, Environmentalists decided to come up with the recycle program to eliminate the millions of tons of waste generated in the country each day. Americans were urged to reduce the amount of waste products they use by reusing what they could and recycle their trash in order to prevent the country from becoming a garbage dump. The recycle programs has expanded since the 1970’s and is advancing more each day within our schools, businesses, and throughout the world. Some of these places have implemented mandatory recycling programs and laws. Consumers are learning more about the recycle programs and the laws that will help with the process of recycling compost material such as glass, plastics, cardboards, cans, and etc. If consumers recycle more not only will it reduce waste but will help create new materials to reuse and help reduce our environment’s pollution.

Recycling helps extend the life of the planet and creates new useful materials of items that have already served a purpose. Recycling is a positive way that consumers can impact their communities and to reserve the planet. Consumers have to educate themselves on the importance of recycling and the different items that can be recycled since almost everything around can be recycled.

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Consumers needs to know the importance that recycling can do for the environment and how it will decrease the amount of waste...

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...have the time to clean old products and take them to local recycle facilities, people would argue that recycling is not going to help save the planet, where local landfills still are becoming full at rapid rates, and how globalization is increasing the amount of trash in the world each day, so recycling would not benefit the world when trash is accumulated each day, it would just defeat the purpose and continue the cycle of landfills being filled from coast to coast. Then legislators want to make cities, towns, states, and countries have mandatory recycling programs, and when residents do not recycle their trash then they will be fine and under scrutiny for not trying to make the world a better and cleaner place. Consumers can also argue that these programs intrude on individuals’ rights to choose whether or not they want to recycle.

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