Recycling for the Future

Over the past few decades recycling has become a kind of ancient religion — something most people blindly follow but don’t really understand why. So, in the next few paragraphs we are going to attempt explain why recycling is so important.

To begin with, recycling reduces global warming. As most of our leading scientists freely acknowledge, the Earth has entered a warming phase due mostly to man-made pollutants. And the fact is that making products from scratch releases more CO2 than recycling does. For example, producing new items made of metals like aluminium creates 90% more CO2 than recycling does, which is why we should always recycle our aluminium cans.

Another material that should always be recycled is plastic. Why? Well, did you know that it takes twice as much energy to burn plastic as it does to recycle it? Or how about the fact that it takes double the amount of energy to make paper rather than recycle it.

Lastly, another great reason why we should always recycle is because we simply don’t have the room not to. That’s right! We are quickly running out of places to store this stuff, as all of the old landfills we have been dumping recyclable items into for decades have reached maximum capacity. That means we have to come up with efficient solutions to new problems, and in this case it just so happens that the new solution we need is one we already know —recycling.