i think recycling is important.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. It is an alternative to \"conventional\" waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions (compared to plastic production, for example). Recycling can prevent the waste of potentially useful materials and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, thereby reducing: energy usage, air pollution (from incineration), and water pollution (from landfilling). Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the \"Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle\" waste hierarchy. There are some ISO standards related to recycling such as ISO 15270:2008 for plastics waste and ISO 14001:2004 for environmental management control of recycling practice. \"Recyclable materials\" include many kinds of glass, paper, and cardboard, metal, plastic, tires, textiles, and electronics. The composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste\u2014such as food or garden waste\u2014is also considered recycling. Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials destined for manufacturing. In the strictest sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material\u2014for example, used office paper would be converted into new office paper or used polystyrene foam into new polystyrene.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I like to recycle instead of throwing things away. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Me too, my family is very big on recycling, I'm glad we do it because it helps save material and can help lower greenhouse gas emissions."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Where I live we have no recycling pick up so I have to drive 15 miles to the recycling center"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's unfortunate, I'm glad you're willing to make the drive to help the environment, always important to be a part of the \"Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle\" waste hierarchy."}, {"role": "user", "content": "True. I am from California and recycling is very big. In Arkansas it is an afterthought. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I wonder why there's a difference, perhaps just a difference in attitudes or philosophies? I was reading about the zero waste philosophy, it's the idea that all products should be designed to be reused."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Probably, they still use Styrofoam which is def not zero waste  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That definitely would be against the zero waste philosophy, which has a goal of sending no trash to landfills or incinerators, seems like a nobel goal."}]