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Recycling is not so hard, yet it is one of the best ways you can do something positive for the environment. Your home is one place where you can find plenty of items to recycle. If you have the room, you can even set out labeled containers and use them to sort recyclable items. Plastic garbage cans are perfect for this project.

The easiest items to sort are plastic, glass and cardboard. If you drink soda pop from aluminum cans, there should be a container especially for those cans. While you are at it, check with your local schools and churches to see if they collect the pop tops from these cans. Another use for the pop tops is to make household items. A Google search can give you ideas on what can be made with aluminum pop tops. Novica, a division of National Geographic sells beautifully crafted purses from aluminum pop tops.

Most towns have recycling centers. Find out where the one in your community is located so you can dispose of your recycled material properly. Towns often have a day set aside for hazardous waste disposal. Check to see what items they take and have a container especially for those items. Extreme care should be taken in storing hazardous wastes.

Towns that don’t have a recycling center may have large containers in a designated area where you can bring recyclables. These containers are emptied on a regular schedule.

Since you know why recycling is important, if your town doesn’t have recycling containers, or a recycling center, you need to find out why. Contact your government officials, either in person or by writing them a letter, to voice your concerns over the fact that recycling is not available for the citizens. If containers are not readily available, people will not be motivated to recycle.

Once you have your recycling program at home working, consider expanding your recycling efforts to your workplace and your schools. If you have children, they should be taught at an early age to recycle. After all, recycling is important for their future. Schools must have recycling programs in place to set a good example. Creative recycling programs are very exciting for children, and this excitement is often brought to the home. Parents are then encouraged by the children to recycle.

Offices and health care facilities are one of the largest consumers of our natural resources, yet many of these facilities do not have an active recycling program.

People need to be educated on why recycling is important and the benefits it has for our environment. The same items that are recycled at home can easily be recycled in the work place. Encouraging employees to avoid the use of paper cups and plastic water bottles (unless they are refilled at home), and to recycle computer paper and aluminum cans.

In order to complete the cycle of reduce, recycle, and reuse, purchasing products that have been made from recycled products is a must. Buying paper products, such as greeting cards, napkins, and computer paper that are made from recycled paper is essential to complete the cycle. Your use of these products shows your support for the recycling effort.

Another simple way to help the environment is by using “green” bags instead of plastic bags when you are grocery shopping. Every bit of plastic that has ever been manufactured is still in existence. Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade. A reusable grocery bag helps keep those plastic bags out of the landfills.

Everyone is beginning to realize why recycling is important, but many people can’t be bothered to recycle. Education and readily available recycling centers is essential if we are to save this environment.
About the Author
Beverly Saltonstall is an environmental writer.  Visit http://totalrecyclingwebsite.com for news, podcasts, articles and guides covering many aspects of recycling. To understand recycling, read Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Recycling, But Never Dared to Ask. (available on website)

Since he developed the urge to advance his race, man has advanced exponentially in all aspects—culture, society, technology, and religion.Unfortunately, as we advanced, we have also damaged and destroyed our environment just so the world can accommodate our advancements. We have poisoned our oceans, negatively affected our ecosystems, denuded our forests, dirtied the air, and destroyed the scenery. Worse, nature seems to be fighting back with landslides, hurricanes, and other disasters that cost lives and billions of dollars.

But there’s always a good wherever there is a bad. And that good comes in the form of environmentally concerned individuals and groups who care for the preservation of nature.

Ordinary citizens can contribute to the worldwide effort of cleaning up the world. One of the easiest, cheapest, and most popular way of doing that is to recycle. Recycling is the reprocessing of used, old, and ready-to-throw materials into new uses and products. Recycling has become very popular; governments encourage its practice and even made mandates regarding it.

Recycling can start in the house. In fact, it even starts <em>before</em> recyclates are given to recycling centers. Here are some ideas on how to recycle throwaway items in the house before you place them in your recycling container.

1. Plastic bags

* They can be used as garbage bags.

* They can be used to catch excess water from plant pots and hanging baskets. Just place them at the bottom of such vessels.

* They can be an alternative to bubble wrap when packing fragile items.

* You can use them to store grass clippings, dead leaves, and trimmings.

* You can store wet, dirty clothes in them if you go to the beach for a picnic.

* They make perfect doggie bags.

* Small zip-up plastic bags make great sandwich bags.

2. Paper

* Old but colorful ones can be made into gift wrappers.

* Old letters and memos can be cut up and stacked together as a notepad. You can then use the blank sides.

* You can reuse old mailing envelopes by putting a new address label over the old address.

* Big pieces of old newspaper or wallpaper can be made into pet beddings.

* Old colorful calendars can be framed to make beautiful picture frames for your home.

3. Organic or garden waste

* Grass clippings, hedge trimmings, dead leaves, and vegetable and fruit peelings can be composted. Check out the Internet on how to compost these wastes. Compost works great as a fertilizer.

* These can also be given to the zoo as food for herbivores.

* Give food scraps to hog raisers.

4. Aluminum cans and trays

* They make small good-looking flower pots for small plants.

* By cutting them up, they make great mobiles.

* Old baking trees can be made into seed beds. Just fill them up with fertile garden soil, place your seeds, water it, and place it in a sunny place.

* They are perfect scratchbuilding materials for modelbuilding.

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