We also recognize that some people will never realize this fact and will continue on their ordinary path. It is a matter of starting at this level, the grassroots level and working up. Change comes slow, and with a head start now, perhaps our children and our children's children will recycle as a part of every day life. Recycling helps out the environment immensely. There are so many benefits of recycling, that they are tough to list all in one paper.
Lets take plastics for example.
These products, if not recycled can take ten centuries to decompose into harmless waste products. But if you take that plastic bottle and recycle it, you reuse the same material and transform it into another plastic bottle of the same or better quality. Since the late 1960s they have been pumping up to 900,000 gallons a day of that mixture. These compounds are now able to be recycled. In fact, these could have been stored for later recycling, but were not.