off from underground water. These landfills also produce a type of gas from the decaying trash. We have found a way to recycle this gas to use it as an energy source. Recycling is helpful because it extracts and reuses certain waste materials. Expanding recycling programs worldwide can help reduce solid waste pollution for the entire planet.If we continue to foolishly not take care of our planet we will end up like the thousands of dead plants and animals that at one time lived on this earth. As long as this pollution continues it is only a mater of time until we die off. As John Steinbeck says, our rivers are poisoned by reckless dumping of sewage and toxic industrial wastes, the air of our cities is filthy and dangerous to breathe from the belching of uncontrolled products from combustion of coal, coke, oil, and gasoline. (Steinbeck 550) Even our drinking water has become polluted with toxins. Water is the key to survival, and without it nothing can survive. Having polluted air effects the ozone layer that will lead to global warming. We must work on keeping a cleaner planet so that every living organism has a chance to live. Humans control nature by regulating everything harmful to the environment. As technology grows we are able to see what effects we have on the environment as a whole....
