7 Reasons Why Recycling Is Important

[Natureboy]

Let me give you a few reasons why recycling is so important. They're in no particular order:

1. Saving energy
2. Saving land space
3. Saving money
4. Creating new jobs
5. reducing air and water pollution
6. preserves habitat for wildfine

So please, try to recycle the materials used in your daily life for a better tomorrow!

[Jay G.]

Thanks for the great visual!!  I really like it and have not seen it before.

[Sabyna17]

I think you forgot one of the most important reasons, natureboy!!!

Recycling helps fighting back the global warming. If we don't stop soon from polluting We'll enter ice age 3 in no time. They say on Discovery the Glaciers are accelerating their melting times.

~~ Sab

[LucianG]

Hmm, maybe this could be considered a reason, too:

Our planet has limited resources. There's not enough oil to go around. Same with iron, coal and other similar resources.

It's good to reuse them. In the future (100-200 years, i don't know how long) we'll have completly depleted our planet of resources... And what then?

[Jay G.]

By then we will probably just move on to other planets or into the depths of the oceans.  Or maybe in 300 years or so we will be able to replicate things at a molecular level like they do in Star Trek, now that would be cool!

[caperol]

By then we will probably just move on to other planets or into the depths of the oceans. 

Hopefully that won't be necessary, but unless a lot of the world wakes up and starts doing something soon, it might be!