To recycle and purchase recycled products is to participate in one of Nature's basic processes. Every blade of grass, butterfly, fish, leaf, bird, all degrade back into the soil and then those broken-down nutrients are used to make new life forms.

Over the last decade, recycling has become just as normal a part of our lives as taking out the garbage. We have come to view recycling a gold mine of raw materials that can be used to manufacture new products we want and need.

Recycling helps the environment by conserving our natural resources, saving energy, reducing air and water pollution, and reducing the need for landfill space. It saves money for communities in waste management expense and creates more jobs.

It just makes sense to recycle, so learn all you can about it and be creative about recycling and purchasing recycled products in your own home and business.