Recycling! Why we should bother!

Thank you very much for taking time to read my blog.
Trying to recycle more and to help save the planet is something that I really feel strongly about. I also feel that not enough is being done to promote this, and that is why I have chosen to cover this topic. After reading my blog, I hope to of gained your support in the fight against landfill sites and less general household waste. I hope you will also be in favour of better recycling facilities and more general recycling overall.

Imagine if you had no food or water or pretty much anything, how would you feel if you had to go onto these dumpsites everyday to find somebody else’s waste and then use this for your everyday life. Here in England even if we are poor and we have cookers or washing machines that break, most of us can save up and buy ourselves a new one. In many parts of the world they don’t have that luxury and therefore have to go onto these smelly, dirty and overall disgusting sites everyday just to get the bare essentials needed for everyday life.

This should not be happening. All of these items such as mobiles, machines and even any type of electrical product along with the normal paper and cans, etc can be recycled and put to a better use than lying on a dump site waiting to be picked up and tried to be used by someone who can’t afford to buy one. If less money was wasted in this way, maybe we could afford to give more money in aid to those less fortunate than ourselves. Listed below, are 5 reasons why you should recycle and how it can not only help the environment, but you personally;

1. Recycling just one aluminium can saves enough energy to run a TV, or to even operate a computer for three hours. Think of the smaller electricity bills we could have!
2. A glass bottle would take more than 4000 years to decompose, however it would take even longer if it was on landfill.
3. The average person gets through 38kg of newspapers each year! And every ton of paper that's recycled can save enough energy to power a three bedroom house for a whole year.
4. You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one.
5. Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could be recycled.

I would like to say thank you again for taking time to read my Blog, I would just like to ask you a few questions, but before that here is a good website if you want to know more about what and how to recycle - http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/

* Before reading my blog did you recycle and if so what items?
* After reading my blog have you now changed your opinion on recycling and will you recycle more? If so what?
* Would you now be willing to tell family and friends about this issue and try to persuade them to recycle more, and to even visit my blog and make a comment of their own?
* And finally, would you be willing to support my petition to hopefully change people’s opinions on recycling and to encourage them to do more of this, along with saving land from becoming another victim to landfill.

Thank you

Jemma.