How To Make Your Own Bibliography Recycling Basics Recycling reduces waste. It's an alternative to throwing garbage into landfills, into our oceans, wetlands, and forests. When you recycle a piece of waste, that waste is converted into new and useful products. In the case of products like paper, producing new materials means cutting more trees. With many landfills closing, and communities fighting the opening of new ones, we need an alternative to haphazard waste disposal.
Recycling is the first step.
It gives us a little more breathing time while we decide how we are going to reduce the overall amount of waste that is produced each day all over the world. It conserves natural resources, such as trees and energy, by reducing the amount of materials we take from our environment to make new products. The majority of the waste we produce is recyclable. But each area has specific recycling guidelines. More and more communities are developing curb-side recycling plans, but these programs only pick up certain types of materials.