Recycling

Facts About Recycling Plastic

Keeping the Earth healthy, being Green and eco-friendly have become a huge part of the world due to the spot light of global warming with climate and weather changes. One of the easiest and least expensive ways to help the Earth is by recycling plastic.

Every day hundreds of plastic containers and bottles are thrown in the trash instead of recycle bins or thrown in the street or on the ground. During last year’s Keep America Beautiful campaign, volunteers collected about 189 million plastic bottles and containers left on the road or ground and recycled them.

Recycling plastic is a definite plus for the environment; about one ton of recycled plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill. A lot more than most recyclable items. A lot of major grocery stores will recycle your plastic bags and plastic wraps as well for you; a lot of them have set up collection agencies through their stores to encourage the act of recycling. Recycling a piece of plastic doesn’t seem like much, but it has a huge impact on your community and throughout the world. It only takes a few seconds of your time to place something in the recycle bin rather than the trash. Most recreational areas and parks nowadays provide some form of recycling as an alternative outlet to the common trash bin.

The average plastic is 70 percent natural gas, allowing the form to be broken down easily and reused. So by recycling you are helping the environment reuse its natural resources for a common good. Make a difference, recycle.