Recycling Semester Essay #5

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

            Carpooling and planting trees are some of many ways that we can help our environment.

These activities are beneficial for our environment because both of these activities are helping

preserve the environment. Many people do not do anything when it comes to helping the

environment, most people believe that the subject is not as important as some people make it

seem.  These people should not have that mentality because earth is our home and the

environment that surrounds us everyday provides us with advantages in our lives, and if we do

not make an effort to better the environment that we live in the benefits that the environment

brings us will not last.

        People should become more active when it comes to activities that will benefit our

environment. An activity that is fairly simple that will benefit the environment extremely is

recycling. Recycling should be an activity that we should all be able to do because the product s

that we need to recycle are within our household. 

        Recycling is the process of turning any products useful parts to make an entirely new

product. The reason this is done is to conserve the consumption of resources and space, and most

importantly space used in our landfills. Statistics show that the benefit of recycling one plastic

bottle saves anywhere from 100 to 1000 years in the landfill, it also saves the environment from

producing new bottles and the oil used in producing the bottles. When we do not recycle, at least

our glass and aluminum we cost the earth in power, water, oil and landfill usage. Glass takes

approximately 4000 years to decompose in a landfill, but when recycled it can be indefinitely. 

       Recycling is an extremely eco friendly activity, by reusing your recycled storage

containers you save on the environmental impact. By just taking a moment and putting your

newspapers, plastic and glass bottles, or aluminum cans in a recycling bin will save years in

environmental harm from production of new material. It will also decrease overcrowded landfills

and the consumption of our natural resources. We can recycle mostly any product, we only have

to make an effort in wanting to help our environment and preserve it. By not getting involved we

are saying that we do not care about earth, the place that is our home. Get informed, become

activate and become eco friendly to show that our environment is important to us.