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->Don't Burn. Conserve. Conservation is the best alternative. Save the world, don't consume something today. Use less. Reuse more. Consume efficiently and only if necessary. Think twice; consume once.

Recycling is not conservation. They are two distinct processes. Conservation is the intelligent use and preservation of a resource. This process means don't use the resource. Recycling is taking garbage and making it back into something by consuming resources which may be more detrimental to the environment than throwing something away and having it become part of a mountain in some landfill. For example, a glass bottle may be thrown away or recycled. To recycle requires the cleaning of the bottle, the transportation of the bottle to a recycling facility, the building of recycling facilities, the maintenance of the recycling facilities and the filth that the recycling process may generate into the environment. In fact the total carbon footprint of the recycling process may easily create more pollution and cause more destruction to the environment than the original production of the bottle. So each bottle not consumed can mean a big change in the future of the environment. So stop consuming. Save the world.

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