Recycle This

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sort of like exercising: we all know we should do it, but not all of us do it as often as we should and some of us don�t do it at all. If you haven�t been diligent about recycling your garbage, here are some good reasons why you should start. It cuts back on global warming. Production of certain materials from scratch can release significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Aluminum production is a prime example�producing new aluminum creates 95% more CO2 than recycling old aluminum cans. In addition, recycling paper saves trees�for each ton of paper recycled, 17 trees are saved. Each of these trees can extract around 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air in a year. It makes us more energy-efficient. It often takes a great deal more energy to create something from scratch than to recycle it. It keeps our landfills from overflowing. It improves the quality of our groundwater. The garbage in landfills is usually not treated in any way�it�s simply thrown in a big hole and ...

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