Fact 1: Recycling reduces the resources needed to make something. Fact 2: Literarily, to create something, to make something new. Given the two facts above, new resources required for creation can be reduced through:?

Select from:
[1]. mining
[2]. mutations
[3]. fossil fuels
[4]. virgin plastic
[5]. competition
[6]. deforestation
[7]. recycling
[8]. Evaporation
Answer:
[7].