Nowadays, it’s very common to be told that we all must do our part in saving our planet by recycling. Should we truly go to all of that trouble? Well, consider this statistic: a typical plastic shopping bag takes more or less 1,000 years to entirely decompose in a land fill site. 1000 years is a very long time for only one plastic bag. Estimate how many trash bags you use annually along with those plastic shopping bags. When you multiply that amount by the number of people living in our country, it’s a huge number. Rather than discarding it and waiting for it to break down, we can recycle it so that it can be used once again. Many things are recycled nowadays, for instance old worn tires are shredded down and used as tread for playgrounds and shopping bags made of plastic can be remade into clothing. Almost anything can be recycled.