Why on earth do I need youto recycle? Why even care? Because, when I’m old and the world has used all of its natural resources, I’m going to blame this generation!
What’s a natural resource? A natural resource is something the earth gives to us that we use to make things. For example, water is a natural resource. So is wood, and believe it or not, flowers. Why flowers? We use it for perfumes and other goods that make people smell nicely.
How are we running out of natural resources if we have an entire earth full of them? Well, you may think we have an infinate amount of water, but you’re absolutely wrong. Did you know that the very same water that you’re drinking right now is the exact same water that the dinosaurs drank? Think about it this way, after you drink water, you pee. Right? That waste gets flushed down the toilet and then goes to a waste treatment plant. After that, it gets put back into our water systems and into natural rivers and bodies of water. That water gets purified, and then we drink it agian. We never get more water, and when we drink water, it’s not gone forever. This means that we have a set amount of water on earth, and we need to take care of it. We’re never going to ever get any more. When we pollute water, nature cleans it through a long process. But, nature can only handle so much pollution. After a certain amount, it makes it difficult for nature to clean it because it is such a slow process. Bottom line, take care of our water, because we’re never going to get any more of it.
Wood is also a natural resource. The main things we use with wood is paper. Let me tell you, we use A LOT of it. This is why we are going to recycle paper and magazines. When we use paper to print these types of things, so we can reuse them. This way, when we run out of paper, we can still have some… the recycled stuff!
The earth also gives us some other things, like minerals. Minerals are usually what we are really recyling. One thing that we recycle a lot is aluminum. Actually, aluminum is an alloy. This is a combination of two or more minerals. Like water, we only have a set amount of minerals on earth. It’s not like something we can just grow. What we’ve got is all we’ll ever have, and we’ve got to recycle and reuse it so that our children and their children don’t have no recources left. Because if they do run out of resources, they’ll be blaming us. This is because we are the generation that have been wasting all of these resources; it’s our fault. Let’s clean up our own mess- please. Do your best to recycle.
