Letter to the Editor: Recycling Can Equal Money

To the editor:

Each aluminum can takes the equivalent energy of half a gallon of gasoline to make! (This is for a new can—much less for recycled can.) Each plastic drinking bottle takes the equivalent energy of a quarter of a bottle of oil! (This is for a new bottle—much less for a recycled bottle.)

Several people have told me that they have given up on recycling because people always throw garbage in the recycle container. Please do not give up on recycling so easily. People who buy the recycling go through it very carefully. So when in doubt, recycle! 

But it is very important to rinse things before you put them in recycling. 

Harley Horsager, Lakeville