Why should everyone own a recycling bin?

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I am writing a persuasive essay about why people should own a recycling bin and i need 9 reasons. help! i feel really strongly about this because people are destroying the environment already and we could save it a lot if more people just started using recycling bins.
thank you and i'm not asking you to do my homework for me i would just appreciate some facts and a few opinions.
 
1. Good For Our Economy
American companies rely on recycling programs to provide the raw materials they need to make new products.

2. Creates Jobs
Recycling in the U.S. is a $236 billion a year industry. More than 56,000 recycling and reuse enterprises employ 1.1 million workers nationwide.

3. Reduces Waste
The average American discards seven and a half pounds of garbage every day. Most of this garbage goes into to landfills, where it's compacted and buried.

4. Good For The Environment
Recycling requires far less energy, uses fewer natural resources, and keeps waste from piling up in landfills.

5. Saves Energy
Recycling offers significant energy savings over manufacturing with virgin materials. (Manufacturing with recycled aluminum cans uses 95% less energy.)

6. Preserves Landfill Space
No one wants to live next door to a landfill. Recycling preserves existing landfill space.

7. Prevents Global Warming
In 2000, recycling of solid waste prevented the release of 32.9 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MMTCE, the unit of measure for greenhouse gases) into the air.

8. Reduces Water Pollution
Making goods from recycled materials generates far less water pollution than manufacturing from virgin materials.

9. Protects Wildlife
Using recycled materials reduces the need to damage forests, wetlands, rivers and other places essential to wildlife.

10. Creates New Demand
Recycling and buying recycled products creates demand for more recycled products, decreasing waste and helping our economy.2.5.

And most of all,it's just good common sense to recycle. Hope this helps you a little on your essay.
 
1. recycling helps the planet
2. Less garbage which saves you money
3. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy [=
4. We are running out of room for our garbage this saves room
5. good ju-ju or karma
6. we will run out of natural resources and recycling slows that process..
7. hm mm Almost everything can be recycled so it not a burden,..
8. Saves everybody money in the long run

all i could come up with hun
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good luck
 
because wasting stuff is just wrong....
bad karma
uses our resources up..... resources are not infinite, they will run out unless we recycle
if we dont recycle, we gotta cut down more trees and use more oil to make plastic... both increasing cost of gas and everything made with oil.... and destroying our own envirenment.... slowly killing ourselves
Doesn;t make sense to not recycle, unless you are greedy and selfish.

Problem is most people are selfish... and find it hard to break out of the cycle.
Recycling also makes you feel good about yourself. that you are part of solution rather than the problem
 
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