Trees

Last year we recycled enough paper to save over 41 million trees! Trees do more than beautify our world.They help clean the air of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.Places like the Amazon or other jungles and forests of the kind are being threatened, as the quantity of trees goes down.As much as our trees are disappearing so are the animals who inhabit it and the natives.

the can situation

Recycling doesn't help all.In fact, in 2006, 66% of that plastic, glass, and aluminum you use for beverage bottles were not recycled.Recently, the aluminum can recycling rate fell to 51.5%, it proves we recycle 1, 500 cans a second, a poor minority.Sadly, over 21 billions cans are being put into landfills because people just don't recycle.That's why we, every individual, plays a big part in the recycling system.We recycle 74% steel, 95% aluminum, 85% copper, 65% lead, 64% paper and 80% plastic.This is what happens when we don't recycle:

What's recycling?

To solve one of our problems, we use a rather efficient technique: recycling, but it only works if everybody participates. Recycling means giving it another cycle. Let’s take a can for instance, by recycling it; you can get the same one in less than 3 days! That’s why there is 2 different garbage’s: the blue one, to recycle any paper, glass, or cardbored, and the black one for everything else (we haven’t invented a technique for that yet).

melting

We have quite some problems, here on Earth; one of them is our water problem. Because of global warming, the Artic is slowly melting and diluting itself in the oceans and seas. We would’t think it would be a problem, but it is, like all the other consequences of our acts. By adding itself to those oceans and seas it makes the water level rise. In fact, it is scheduled that in 50 years water will cover up the Netherlands and New York, as well as some other small countries under the water level.Of course, this affects majorly the animals.Since the water is melting, animals that are used to thicker ice are having a real tough time finding food, shelter and, of course, a place to raise their children.

Not enough!

Between 1950 and 2000, the U.S. population nearly doubled. However, in that same period, the peoples demand for water more than tripled! Americans now use an average of 100 gallons of water each day enough to fill 1,600 glasses! That’s a whole lot of numbers! In fact, it’s too much numbers for the quantity of water we have. They say only 3% of the water on Earth is potable. With all the water we use to clean, to take showers, to flush the toilet and to make things grow. In a lifetime, an average person will use enough water to fill up 2 Olympic size swimming pools. Imagine, 303,824,640 people inhabiting the U.S.A., that’s a lot of swimming pools!