Recycle… It’s Our Future
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February 22, 2010 • Darby Paige
Filed under Bucs Life
After a tiring day at work or school, you’re at the grocery store checking out and the cashier asks, “Paper or plastic?” What should you do?
Ask yourself, “Should I recycle?” What difference does it make if one person recycles or not? Studies have shown that the “United States consumes over 380 billion plastic bags each year.” Since 1994, America has approximately gone through 5,700,000,000,000 plastic bags (five trillion and seven hundred million).
Recycling is one of many simple solutions to America’s dependence to plastic bags. Recycling saves energy, reduces pollution, and saves our essential natural resources that are vital to our existence.
How does one recycle? Recycling can be as simple as clapping your hands together. In fact, if you reuse your water bottle instead of buying a new one, you can save your money and the earth all at the same time. You can also buy in bulk, because bulk products contains less packaging, which results in less items being thrown away in an unforgiving baron wasteland that we call a landfill.
When does one recycle? The answer is easy, ALWAYS! Some prime examples are: at school, work, in restaurants, and above all at your own home where you can have recycling bins that help make your improvement for the earth simpler. The earth doesn’t matter where you recycle as long as it gets done.
What does a person recycle? You may assume that only plastics, paper, and glass can be recycled. Wrong! You can recycle anything that can be reused, such as: batteries, clothes, bikes, cars, computers; the list is endless.
So the next time you’re asked, “Paper or plastic?” say, “No thanks, I brought my own recycled bag.”
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My family tried to recycle with the trash people and they wanted to charge, i think double the cost of a normal pick-up. Its really hard to recycle, i save bottles and paper and turn it in every 4 to 6 months, but its a trouble keeping the stuff around for so long. I would be nice if the school did something, but i know they properly wont, unless they get a lot of kids to do it.
Any way, thanks a lot Crows Nest!!!