Help Save The Environment by Recycling Cans

By recycling cans we make are making a useful contribution towards helping to preserve our environment. We don't want them ending up in landfill, because they aren't biodegradable.


I walk a lot, to the shops, to the library, and many other places as well. Every day I see empty drinks cans strewn alongside the paths and in the hedgerows. If people want to dispose of them this way at least drop them where they can easily be picked up by someone else, and not in a hedgerow where it's easy to be scratched and prickled by thorns.


Recycling cans is easy to do. Here in the UK our local authority ask us to separate them from the other rubbish and we put them in blue bins which are collected once a fortnight. We are able to mix other recyclables with them, so they can evidently recycled together with other waste products.


Our local school runs a scheme where they ask parents to contribute their empty cans to the school who in turn pass them on to a local recycling firm who pay the school for the number of cans contributed.


This way the school raises much needed building restoration and improvement funds and the environment benefits as well and looks tidier as well.


Some households generate a lot of empty cans to dispose of, others have not many at all. Foods and drinks are typically packaged in cans so it depends on how many of these we buy as to how much waste we generate.


Other than throw empty cans away there are a few other uses I can think of for them.


1. Used ring pull cans could be used as a miniature vase for a flower or two.


2. Rinse out used cans and use them in the garden shed for storing small items such as nails and washers.


3. You could use one to practice your putting. Take it to the office and put it on the floor any time you want to practice your putting.


Here are just three ideas of what to do with empty cans. All it takes is a little imagination to come up with even more ideas for recycling cans.