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Everyday, consumers use many products that can be recycled. Plastic bottles, containers and bags can be recycled into many useful things such as carpet, furniture, electrical casings and computer components. Metal cans and paper products can be recycled into useful products for further use, for years to come.

Plastics do not break down very well and take many, many years to do so. Metal cans put rust and other chemicals into our ground. This helps to pollute our waters and has other harmful affects. Recycled paper helps reduce the number of trees that are cut down daily.

Unfortunately, many of these products are not being recycled. Landfills keep getting larger and larger. This is causing our ground beneath us and our environment to be continuously filled with pollutants. We are going to force our children and grandchildren to live within a much more toxic earth than we have ever imagined unless we start acting on this volatile situation immediately.

The most important thing we can do today to protect our children’ and grandchildren’ future is to recycle what ever we can, every day of our own lives. This will help protect the ones we love for a much brighter future.