Research 3

the claim to this article is that recycling reduces the amount of landfill and pollution, and it conserves energy. it also starts off by stating how recycling emerged in world war 2 in america because of scarce resources. kids from the 80's, the article says, though that the idea of "recycle, reduce, and re-use" has been part of he nation since the start but it was actually started in the 1970's. then non profit organizations for recycling started up and it became a common thing to recycle. "Non-profit recycling centers began opening around the country, followed by municipal recycling programs. Today, most U.S. communities have such programs. A typical program asks people to separate their recyclables from their trash before placing them at the curb for collection." the recycling of plastics is broken up into 7 categories(the seventh is all plastics other than the first specific 6 plastics). plastic can be reformed to many other useful things.