Recycle
By: Brock Beeler
What does it mean to recycle?
Recycling is when you throw something in a yellow bin and then it gets reused by someone else. Sometimes you can recycle something like glass and it gets melted and changed into something else.
Why should you recycle?
You should recycle because then things dont go to the dump. The dump is where things go that just sit there and decompose into the ground. Sometimes it takes a long time for things to decompose and it is bad for the ground and air. When the dump gets a lot of things in it it doesnt decompose as easy so you should recycle.
Decomposing and time
Things take time to decompose.
Tin Can- 50 years
Glass Bottle- 1 million years
Disposable Diaper- 250-500 years
Wood- 200-30 years
Paper- 6 weeks
Plastic Grocery Bag- 20-1,000 years
Styrofoam Cup- 500 years to forever
Aluminum Can- 80-100 years
Cotton T-shit- 6 months
Apple Core- 2 months
It suprised me that it takes 1 million years for glass to decompose and the it could take forever for styrofoam to decompose.