| Almost everyone understands the importance of | | | | Recycling is a necessary and beneficial resource |
| recycling our byproducts, but in this age of | | | | for any community. By making recycling drop off |
| consumption it is more important then ever that | | | | points easily accessible and well known to their |
| cities and municipalities encourage this and provide | | | | own residents, the city stands to enhance the |
| more easily accessible resources for recycling in | | | | productivity and standing of their community while |
| order to keep local communities from drowning in | | | | even making a little extra money for the city |
| a sea of trash. | | | | coffers. Many recyclable items, such as aluminum |
| Most households use and discard an incredible | | | | cans and glass bottles, generate a small return |
| amount of products that could be easily recycled | | | | from the recycling company and when submitted |
| every week. Nearly every byproduct we use has | | | | in bulk the result can be a tidy sum that could be |
| the potential to be recycled to some extent or | | | | used to benefit the community in many ways. |
| another. The list is long and includes plastic | | | | Planting trees, providing funds for the local little |
| beverage containers, newspaper, cardboard | | | | league team or purchasing textbooks for |
| containers, aluminum soda cans, egg cartons, old | | | | schoolchildren could all be free money well spent. |
| phone books, etc., etc. While each household is | | | | The initial cost of setting up a city recycling |
| responsible for recycling its own consumer | | | | location can be minimal in comparison to the |
| products, the city should also be responsible for | | | | return on such an investment, and it doesn't have |
| providing a safe and easy way for those individual | | | | to be fancy, just functional. Once the drop off |
| households to drop off their recyclable items. | | | | location is established, the city must make its |
| Many towns and cities have local drop off | | | | presence well known to the residents in order to |
| locations where the residents can dispose of their | | | | make full use of its potential. The city employees |
| recyclable trash for free. Not every city makes | | | | and administration itself should lead the way by |
| these resources available, however, and few | | | | recycling all of their suitable trash and placing |
| advertise their existence and location to the public. | | | | recycle bins in all city buildings. In addition, the city |
| Sometimes the information is made accessible in | | | | could start a campaign to reduce and reuse, which |
| the community pages of the local phone book. | | | | has become popular in many rural areas. |
| Some cities even rely on the local trash disposal | | | | With so many disposable items being used and |
| company to provide special recycle bins to their | | | | discarded every day all across the world, it is |
| customers, but they tend to charge an extra fee | | | | mandatory that cities get more involved in the |
| for each extra bin. | | | | trash habits of its townsfolk. To the city that |
| The city government must take the initiative to | | | | commits to leading the way for more community |
| promote recycling within their community and to | | | | wide recycling, the benefits can outweigh the |
| make the receptacles more readily accessible. | | | | landfill. |