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= Recycling =

Everyday we throw away so much trash. If we simply threw it any where the world would be a mess. We have two kinds of containers for trash; garbage cans and recycling bins. Recycling is the process of recovering and refusing waste products- from house hold use, manufacturing, agriculture and business. This reduces the burden on the environment. It seemed almost overnight recycling was taking in by the public as a solution to pollution.

Many people actually don't know how companies recycle products. For plastics, machines chop plastic into flakes, melt them and make them into new products such as packaging, fences, lawn chairs, and much more. Manure is also used for energy. People either burn it or convert it into natural gas. To recycle anything, especially paper, is a huge process using many different machines and steps. media type="youtube" key="X8UXZfUq5_A?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Recycling turns products into new products, and most people would be surprised what recycling can turn things into. Company's make Eco-friendly clothes out of recycled fabric. Some of these products are Patagonia fleece sweaters, Acorn fleece slippers and Stink bug surf trunks. Some big designers such as Oscar de la Renta and Tommy Hilfiger recycle plastic bottles for haute couture.Many companies use recycled products and recycle products themselves.

The modern era of recycling began in the wake of the Mobro 4000. The garbage barge spent much of 1987 traveling up and down the eastern seaboard looking for a place to dump its 3000-ton load of New York trash. It was refused at every port it stopped at. Then it returned to Long island, with all the trash it became clear they had a crisis. The amount of landfill space was getting smaller and smaller. Then people took action and recycling programs became more popular.

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We recycle because our environment is dying from all the waste. We recycle to conserve natural resources and reduce the amount of waste that must be burned or buried. It can also reduce pollution and save energy. Researchers compared more than 180 municipal waste management systems. Recycling is proved better for the environment than burning or burying waste in 83% of the cases. To reuse products, reduce consumption and to improve initial product design is really why we recycle. media type="custom" key="7963278"

The three R's are reducing, reusing and recycling, which are the three steps to help save our environment. To reduce means to make or become smaller or less. Reducing the amount of garbage you produce will help save the environment. To recycle means to treat materials that have been thrown away in order to reuse them again. To reuse is to use things over and over again. Reusing and recycling let people use thing again instead of it siting in a land fill.

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Sources:
 * Searchasaurus dictionary
 * Popular mechanics
 * Lady Bug March 1994
 * Highlights for children February 2007
 * U.S. News & World Report, 10/20/2003,