By recycling aluminum cans, new cans can be made with only 5% of the energy that it takes to make aluminum cans from new material. Americans waste millions of tons of food and other recyclable materials each year, which has negative environmental impacts. If Americans increased recycling rates, it could significantly help the environment by reducing waste and energy usage.

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Recycling
Read the list of supporting details. Decide which details could go together into a
paragraph and put an X on the line next to those details. Determine which detail
makes the best topic sentence. Then write your paragraph, adding an appropriate conclusion.
On average, every American generates more than four pounds of trash every day.
While three quarters of what we throw away is recyclable, we recycle less than a third
of it.
Americans waste millions and millions of food each year. If that wasted food were
composted, it would have the same impact on the environment as taking two million
cars off of the road.
A used aluminum can can be recycled and back on the grocery store shelf as a new can
in less than 60 days.
By recycling one aluminum can you can save enough energy to listen to a whole album
on your iPod. Recycling one hundred cans can save enough energy to run an electric
light bulb for two weeks.
By recycling aluminum cans, new cans can be made with only 5% of the energy that it
takes to make aluminum cans from new material.
Every hour, Americans throw away twenty‐five mission plastic bottles.
A running faucet wastes two and a half gallons of water each minute.
Almost 90% of American have access to either drop‐off or paper recycling programs.
In 2009, Americans threw away enough tons of glass to fill tractor trailers stretched
from New York City to Los Angeles.
By making a commitment to recycling, Americans can have a profound, positive impact
on the environment.
If everyone in America recycled just one out of every ten of their newspapers, they
could save twenty‐five million trees each year.
Write the sentence that you plan to use as your topic sentence.

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