Recycling and Soda Cans

The earth, as we know it, is slowly becoming a landfill. Mountains of garbage are accumulating everywhere. Garbage is accumulating not only on land but in the ocean as well. If this continues the earth itself will become a giant landfill. The air will become greatly polluted as well as the water. These unhealthy habits must change. One healthy way to reduce the large amount of garbage on earth is to recycle. Although it may be easier to just throw a bottle or soda can into a trash, as many lazy Americans do, recycling those items can be very beneficial. What everyone knows but refuses to address is that recycling is a healthy habit, not just for us but for the world. One reason that many people don’t recycle is because their neighborhoods don’t offer it. Many Americans would also rather just throw their recyclable items in the trash because they are too lazy to take it to a recycling bin. Recycling can create many jobs and in time improve the economy. Recycling can also save natural resources, save energy, reduce pollution and conserve landfill space. In order to save the earth, the world needs to recycle more. It should be mandatory that every community in the world has an area for recycles. Garbage companies could even hire people to go through garbage and pick out the recyclable items. Saving natural resources is one of the many things recycling can accomplish. “Making products with recycled material slows the depletion of non-renewable resources such as metal, oil and natural gas, and reduces the encroachment of new mining and drilling operations” (Zody,2011). Salvaging metal from soda cans is one way of saving natural resources. The salvaged metal from the soda cans is melted down then eventually made back into a soda can. “Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again” (Cummings, 2007). Saving soda cans also reduces the amount of oil that the United States uses. “In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent