Bhoomika Navandar
6T
Research Paper Every year, The United States generates approximately 230 million tons of trash. This is about 4.7 pounds per being per day. Less than the quarter of it is recycled, the rest is buried or incinerated in landfills. With a little careful consideration, or forethought, over than 70 percent of the landfilled waste could be recycled, reduced, and reused. This includes precious materials such as metal, glass, plastic, and paper. Americans have started to come aware of the waste they have been producing that is been damaging the Earth. Some of them are making a conscious effort to reduce their waste, more importantly, recycle and reuse. Despite that, it still may not be enough, resources are depleting every moment. Many Americans do not take recycling seriously because they are not well informed and do not consider it is a pressing matter. Recycling has numerous benefits as opposed to not recycling, which means letting the limited resources diminish until there is nothing left. Even though the concept is still widely ignored, recycling has a myriad of benefits to the human population and society. First, What is Recycling? According to EPA government; Recycling Basics; it states that “Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products.” Recycling has multitudinous profits. One of the biggest reasons why recycling is promoted is; as it reduces the