recycling

We've all heard it! "Reduce, reuse, recycle" is a phrase people use when talking about recycling. Reduce- means that you're saving trees, the word is challenging you to eliminate overusage of products. Reuse- means if you have a plastic cup to drink out of, save it and wash it out to reuse it. You can reuse almost anything. Recycle- means to be remade again or to use again.

Recycling has been around for ever, whether it was intentional or not. Back when materials weren't so available for everyone, they would use very little of what they could get and scrap their leftovers and use them for other things. Historic recycling dates back to 400 BC. Scientists have evidence of recycling in ancient times in Turkey and Rome. In the Industrial times recycling basically only happend in times of poverty and war. For the most part they only recycled when they needed to. During Wolrd War 2 was when recycling really took hold of America because people were forced to ration everything they could buy even including food. After World War 2, recycling was off again until the 70's when the enviromental movement really started to shape our country. The enviromental movement is all about reduce, reuse, recycle.

Currently America is making major steps to "go green". Instead of using paper checks, companies are handing out plastic debit cards with their earnings on them. They are also doing things like using recycled paper for napkins and other types of paper. Basically, anything that can be recycled will be. It saves money, it saves trees from being cut down and destroying animals homes.



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