Why Recycle

“Carpooling, recycling,, and planting trees are all good activities for the environment. Write an essay convincing readers to actively participate in one of these activities”

In1958 in the novel called More in Anger, Marya Mannes stated that “the earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future”. This quote is so prevalent in today’s society as we have become so careless about our environment. Taking care of our environment is vital. Participating in environmental health activities is a great way to help ensure we keep or planet healthy. Doing things like recycling finding more green ways to do everyday things are activities we can partake in to do so.  How hard is it to take a few second or minutes out your day to recycle? Simply throwing a plastic bottle for example into a blue bin for recycling is not that time consuming.

According to Proctor Simone, writer for the U.S Environmental Agency, “Between 1960 and 2008 the amount of waste each person creates has almost doubled from 2.7 to 4.5 pounds per day”. The article went on to say that recycling is one of the best ways to ensure we do not create more waste because “recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources.”  It is vital that we take care of our environment or we will soon be living in our own trash if we do not learn to clean up after ourselves and participate in activities that will benefit the environment. The article went into further depth to explain the essential benefits recycling, such that it reduces the need for costly land filling and incineration. Recycling conserves our natural resources, and protects and expands the U.S jobs, increasing our nation’s competitiveness. More importantly, recycling saves energy and helps to sustain the environment for future generations.

Many of the items we see and use daily are recycled without our knowledge. Recycling is beneficial and significant to our environment. It is a cycle of good judgments to take care of our environment. It is not very time consuming as it only requires a few simple steps.  The first step includes finding and collecting recyclable materials such as plastics bottles and aluminum cans. The next step includes processing them, which requires that you take or crop them off at recyclable drop off stations, or storing them in blue trash cans bins for the sanitation system to pick up later in week. These processes only take a matter of minutes and truly help to reduce pollution and environmental effects of just allowing the waste we create to build up.

We as humans living in on this earth should respect and take of it. Too often people become careless and do not do what is necessary to create the best environment for themselves and those around them.  We should recycle because it’s healthy and beneficial, and it also looks pleasant. Recycling is a way to ensure that we do not surround ourselves in our own trash. It is not hard to clean up after ourselves and would only create a better future for ourselves and for the generations that come after us.