Recycling all plastic should be mandatory.
Why is this important?
At LeCroy Career Technical Center where I work in Clanton, AL, I collect all the plastic, aluminum, paper, glass and cardboard that I can. My husband and I recycle all of it at a recycling center near us. Still, plastic is the largest problem. This is not just a local problem or a national problem; this is a GLOBAL problem. As I write this, the number of water bottles used in the U.S. each year encircle the Earth 150 times if laid end-to-end. Less than 25% of them are recycled. There are patches of plastic the size of Texas floating around in our oceans AND each bottle takes 500 million years to decompose.
