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Play this, play that. Everyone has heard that we need to recycle everything we can to save the Earth. But is that really true? A plastic shopping bag takes 1,000 years to decompose in landfills. If that one little bag lasts that long, consider your mall shopping bags, your trash bags. A recycling industry is thriving taking one thing and making it another. Old tires are shredded and used as tread for the playground. Shopping bags are made into clothing. These are examples of the economic aspect of recycling.
Lemore, California started a rigid recycling program 15 years ago. The inhabitants had to comply under the threat of a fine. Recycling has taken over this rural town and provided new playgrounds, a water park, and funded utilities such as the police, fire station, and financing for kindergartens. This is the power of recycling.
If you think you are only one person, what difference could you make? Think about it … if we ALL made the effort, our landfills would be smaller, there would be less waste, and recycling funds could help communities without money.
There is a Native American prayer that my wife once gave me. He says: “Let the footprints we leave show that we have walked in kindness towards the earth and towards every living thing. Let our life be a dance of celebration and let the wind say peace to all our children’s children ”. If you don’t consider it yourself, think about future generations who will deal with our waste.
Plastic shopping bag = 1000 years in landfill
Disposable diaper = 400 years
Aluminum cans = 500 years
Milk jugs = 500 years
Glass jar = up to 1 million years
Styrofoam = probably never – don’t think about take-out containers, daily java repair
To facilitate decomposition in landfills, oxygen is needed to aerate the garbage. Ordinary banana peel can survive up to 40 years in landfill without proper aeration. Recycling in EVERY household can cut our waste by up to half.
Try it, it can only save the planet.
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Source by Joshua Vadney
