Waste not, want notby Rohit singh | 12-05-2014 05:31 |
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Perhaps we should take a lesson from nature and recycle our own rubbish more. So many things that we use come from the ground - like stuff used to make an aluminum drinks can, a tin for baked beans or the metals in a mobile telephone. Plastic is made from oil - that's right, the same that makes petrol for a car! The trouble is that damage can be done to the environment to get these "resources", not to mention that one day they'll run out. A lot of energy (like electricity) is used to get these resources and make them into something useful. If we just turn our old stuff into new stuff we could save a lot of that energy. So next time you're about to throw something in the bin ask yourself, can it be recycled or used again? |
