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Why Reducing, Reusing and Recycling Really *Does* Help the Environment

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Consider in addition to saved landfill space, the reduction in greenhouse gases as manufacturing slows down, if the entire nation was to participate in a simple recycling practice.

Above and beyond, let's not forget about the methane gases produced by landfill, and reduced by our own conscious consumerism. Thus, recycling is win-win: Less manufacturing-related pollution, less methane gas causing the greenhouse effect, and an increasingly improved environment.

Thank goodness more and more people are participating nation-wide. And thank goodness people are caring more and more. There still may be some people who think that their "token" contribution to the environment will make no difference, so out of apathy they don't participate in the solution.

How wrong their assumption is!

All we have to do is google at the press of a button, and we have knowledge at our fingertips.

I have always had a motto:
"Big problems? Simple solutions".



Knowledge is power:

"Yes we can". We can help to save the earth.

This is not the only way to help, of course. I will be researching the facts about air pollution and what we can do, and will write another article with more details. My aim will be to provide statistical facts such as those above, and my hope in so doing is to give us a message that whatever we do, really does, can and will make a difference.

Here is a first article in a series devoted to this subject. Please stay tuned. And, thanks for your help!

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This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul (more...)
 

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With less than five percent... by Daniel Geery on Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:58:13 PM
I suggest.... by Kathryn Smith on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:02:55 AM
Preventable Waste by aberamsay on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:24:39 AM
Recycling by camanokat on Friday, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:14:03 PM
why reducing, etc. by Suzana Megles on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:18:03 AM
You Can't Do It Alone, But It Can't Be Done Without You by Publius on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:37:12 AM
Think globally, act locally! by Kathryn Smith on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:50:35 PM
365 days of trash by Suzana Megles on Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:22:05 PM