What is recycling? Recycling involves processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Many people do not know this but recycling can be a major help to save the environment and help prevent Global Warming. Many of our daily materials we use on a day to day life can be recycled such as glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics.
If everyone in the earth started to recycle it will reduce the garbage placed in landfills, which helps the environment by reducing the need for new landfills. There are over 3,000 active landfills in the United States and over 10,000 old municipal landfills. But many people do not know is that the garbage that they are throwing away is Biodegradable which there for is making the United States to open more landfills. Items that are biodegradable are supposed to decay quickly, are taking decades to decay when sealed off from air and water
Another great reason why we should recycle more is for the fact that if we recycle paper that would mean less tress to cut down and various types of 'hot' gases that are heating up the planet include carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, etc. These gases create higher temperatures, as they emit more energy than simple oxygen or nitrogen and they harm our protective ozone layer that keeps much of the sun's heat and harmful radiation from the surface of the planet.
I will like to leave you all with this! Recycling is a great form to help decrease global warming and help save the planet just remember the power is yours to make a change and just remember to send it on.
http://www.help-stop-global-warming.com/global-warming-recycling.html http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/global_warming.htm
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