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Text 1
What is Recycling?
Recycling means turning waste into something new. Metal, glass, plastic, and paper are often recycled. Composting is recycling too. Fruits, vegetables, and dead plants can be composted. They become fertilizer for living plants. Your old clothes and toys can be given away. Then they do not become trash. Recycling reduces the trash we put in landfills. Recycling also uses less energy. You can reduce your carbon footprint by recycling. You can minimize the number of landfills around the world.

Text 2
Do You Recycle?
Do you buy recycled products? Recycling helps the environment. Buying recycled products also helps the environment. Recycling makes your garbage into new products. Recycled plastic bottles can be made into jackets. Glass and tire pieces can be ground up. They become gravel and sand to fix roads. Food can be composted. It can be used to help the soil. Some resources can be recycled many times. Paper can be recycled only a few times. Each time it is recycled, more of the fibers are broken. This lowers the quality of the paper. Recycled paper becomes toilet paper, paper towels, and newspaper. Recycling saves millions of tons of garbage each year. That is less garbage going into a landfill.

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