Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Over the weekend, I saw so much trash and it reminded me of how more people should recycle to help our earth. I decided to go online and look up ways of recycling and the background on recycling. A paper company in the United States wanted to create a symbol so people would know that its products were a recycled-content. This was almost forty years ago and it started recycling. When things get recycled, it has twice the impact then burying it in the ground.

There are ten top ways on how to recycle. The first one is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. The second way is to know what can and can’t be recycled. Another tip is to buy recycled things. The fourth is to encourage an artist by giving them some of your wastes so they can make art with it. Recycle your water by using your bath or dishwasher water to water your garden or to reuse in the toilet when it gets flushed. Recycle your greenery by composting your food scraps will help your trash not fill up as quickly. Recycle your robots, which mean to send your broken electronic things back to places that can rebuild them and make them into something that works. The seventh thing you can do is to anticipate recycling by buying things that can be recycled. If you don’t love something, let it go by giving it to someone else if it can still be used. The last main tip is to become a waste-stream analyst which means you can separate your waste items so you know what can be recycled. Even if you only do one of these steps, it will still help our earth to become a better place. There are also many other things that can be done to help recycle.

To help the earth, I recycle everything I can. I have a bag in my room for bottles and I use the bins in the hall to recycle paper and cardboard. When I don’t want something anymore, I bring it to a


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