As the years have continued to go by, the need to recycle has grown significantly. Americans have always been involved in consumerism, but with the build up of wealth amongst our nation more items are being used and as a result more waste is created. With the consumption of fast food and new technologies, more materials that are not biodegradable are present.
With the more recent concern with the environment many recycling practices are encouraged. There are pick up services at homes, businesses, and also a lot of college universities have started their own recycling services. These services encourage people to recycle cans, bottles, magazines, newspapers, paper, and cardboard in addition to the regular waste products. Separate containers are even labeled to say what product can be disposed of where.
Not only are the products that we physically consume able to be recycled, but house held technologies and other products are able as well. There are special recycling services for recycling mercury that is predominant in fluorescent light bulbs and car electronics. But other products that have recycling services are cell phones, clothing, computers, crayons, media devices, phone books, plastic bags, packaging materials, ring carriers, and transparencies.
As you can see, there are more than a handful of services that can help recycle unwanted materials, and I'm sure that there are many more.
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