Recycling is a great way to keep our environment clean. When you recycle you don’t waste materials. Most people say that recycling is a good thing. Recycling lowers the amount of waste or pollution on Earth. Recycled things usually gets melted to make new things. For example, paper can be recycled into tissue.

         My classmates had many questions about recycling. For example, what do they do with the things people recycle? What are the different ways to recycle? Another question is, how do they recycle the materials? Does recycling help prevent global warming? What ways can we recycle without burning?

           I learned that the city’s garbage and recycling trucks bring the waste from all houses, schools, businesses, and office buildings to the facility for sorting. Lots of people bring things they can no longer use to the warehouse so they can be resold. When litters of puppies and kittens arrive,they get to play in the shredded newspaper in their pens; giving newspaper another use before going into the waste stream. Some restaurants or cafes stock the snack bar and coffee area with glasses and mugs instead of foam cups. It can be washed and used from time to time. 

         I also learned that yard waste can be collected by an entire community, as a school project, or by you in your own backyard. Paper is recycled by shredding it into small pieces and mixing it with water. The mixture is beaten to mush that flows onto the moving screen where most of the water is taken out. Wood or paper fibers remain in the fiber and the fiber is pressed through rollers that squeeze out more water. It is then dried in a stream-heated dryer. The result is recycled paper.