if you recycle stuff in america you have to drive your car to a recycling plant then the recycling plant packages it and then sends it to a big boat. then all the materials get loaded onto a boat and go all the way to china. on the way polluting the ocean with gas and the air with the exhaust. then in china it has to go to all sorts of factories to have something done with them. then it has to come all the way back to america.

if you burn the object then it just pollutes the air. even though the factories still have to make more of that object and the factories have to make new ones. even if you recycle it still has to be made in a factory, it just saves a step of the making process because you dont have to ship it to china.it just gets shipped to america

Okay but recycling gets used again where burning things leads to pollution and it doesn't get used again. I'm in america and I recycle with my garbage every Tuesday. I
Think its good

I'd have to disagree with burning everything. Our class did a virtual lab along with this about the effects of air pollution on the ocean. We found that air pollution gets into the water and then mucks up the system by decreasing the pH, which make it harder for animals like crabs and sea urchins and coral to grow. Since anytime you burn something it releases CO2, which is what causes a good chunk of the damage to the ocean, you might as well recycle. Less CO2 is going to be released by a barge boat than by burning several tons of reusable plastics and glass and paper.

Also, we use fuel to burn as well as fuel boats. What's more, burning materials such as plastic can release toxins and gases harmful to the environment, not just the air. These can end up hurting us as well, since a good chunk of these toxins are poisonous. Burning things causes way more damage than recycling does.

Recycling plants don't ship their goods to China. That would not be an efficient way to recycle materials and the companies that take aluminum, glass, and plastic from you and then give you money would not be shipping those heavy objects all the way across the Pacific Ocean to China.It's not cost effective. There are recycling centers in the U.S. and a lot of those recycling centers have  plants at the same place they collect. Do you have any information about companies shipping recyclable materials to China? if you do I would like to see the article.

I think that it is important to use re-usable items as much as possible, limiting this issue by limiting what we throw away/recycle. I disagree with burning everything. Burning things causes pollution. As a person with asthma, I often have attacks around large fires due to smoke. If everyone burned their waste, breathing would be extremely difficult not just for people with asthma, but for everyone.

We can see the effects of burning too much in China, where their main fuel source is coal. They use coal in everything from factories to home cooking. In cities where there are hundreds of thousands of people doing this, there are extremely large numbers of people with respiratory problems, the skies are often tinted due to pollution and people wear masks over their mouths and noses to try to avoid disease,

Exactly. We need more recycling

Its more saving the materials to be reused instead of being reduced to ashes but you are right too much of something can hert the environment.

Exactly I mean look at all the weather

Burning materials would not exactly be considered "environmentally friendly." The three "R's" (reuse, reduce, and recycle) are ideal and EASY rules to follow. For an example of why reusing materials is not difficult at all are my actions at home such as printing things on BOTH sides of papers. By doing this, I reduce the use of the amount paper needed. Also, recycling is not that hard to do. I learned this in my middle school where we created a "green team" who promoted recycling and gave people a deeper understanding of how important and easy it is. In order to teach others about it, we had to be taught ourselves. I learned that recycling only takes seconds to be done when you know what can be recycles, such as a glass Snapple bottle I have with my lunch or an old battery in my wii remote. In conclusion, I believe that the process of burning materials takes much longer than reusing and recycling items.

Yes I agree because I mean not that the fact that burning them takes longer but recycling is reusing them burning them is completely destroying them