This way we save a lot of energy and water that can be used in other ways, we don't pollute our air and we save our forests. Diaz 1Katy DiazMethodsMrs. BethMay 12, 1998 Recycling: Working for a Better World Recycling saves trees, raw materials, energy, water and land space. If we get all these benefits, why shouldn't we recycle? Yes, we are really lazy, but we think long term. If we continue to destroy our world, tomorrow there will be no green trees left and neither will we. We should try to recycle today for a better tomorrow. One way is to recycle all the products we use at home. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayRecycling means "material recovery also called recycling, recovery and reuse of materials from used products. The main reasons for recycling have been the increasing scarcity and cost of natural resources" (Material Recovery). There is a famous saying: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. To understand this we should know what each term means. Reducing means preventing everything that generates useless waste. Reusing means giving maximum use to things without having to throw them away, if they are still good. Recycling means using products over and over again. Diaz 2 If we want to live in a clean world, we should think about how we can improve the damage that has already been done. We should use fewer unnecessary products and produce the minimum amount of waste. When we go shopping we should ask ourselves: how can I reduce the amount of waste? Can I reuse, refill, recycle or return the products I am purchasing? If we think about this, our purchases would change not only what we use but also what is produced. “The safest alternative to avoid the destruction of our planet is a change in our consumption habits” (Buenrostro and Padilla 1). There are four main groups of products that can be recycled. The first and most important is paper, since 17 trees are needed to produce one ton of paper ( Environment 1 ). Then there is glass, metals and plastic. If we recycled these products our world would change radically. All we need is everyone's effort to recycle in order to save our world. We can recycle glass. When we throw away glass bottles, we destroy something that used raw materials in its manufacture. “If we recycle glass, we save 32% of the energy needed to produce new glass” (Buenrostro and Padilla np). We also reduce pollution by 20% (Buenrostro Diaz 3 and Padilla np). We would have to clean them and fill them again and again. When we do this, we are saving a lot of energy. "For every ton of recycled glass we save a ton of resources" (Buenrostro and Padilla np). Recycling glass reduces water pollutants by 50% ( Environment 1 )."If you recycle just one glass, you save enough energy to run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours" (Environment 1). "A lot of paper is thrown away every year. Fifty million tons of paper are thrown away every year in the USA" (Environment 1). If we recycle we will save 33% of the energy needed to produce it, in addition to each ton recycled it saves twenty-eight thousand liters of water (Buenrostro and Padilla np). Trees are the essential elements of the ecological balance of our planet. They are the ones who produce our oxygen and absorb CO. If we use trees to produce paper that was not needed, in the long run our oxygen will disappear. The use of metal is widely recommended because metals are very easily recyclable. If we collected.