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Why Burning Garbage is one of the worst things you can do to dispose of waste.
 
Instead of buying a garbage bag tag and putting garbage to the curb to be collected by a garbage truck, some people choose to burn their garbage and recyclables.  These people think that they are saving money, but in return they are hurting everyone’s health.  When they burn garbage it pollutes the air that we breathe with chemicals that we sometimes can’t even see.  These chemical pollutants can really hurt your eyes and throat.  Once in our air some of the pollutants eventually settle down to the ground.  The settling chemicals land in the water that we drink and swim in, on the grass where we play and in the fields that we grow our food on.  So, by burning recyclable material and garbage the effects are felt by humans, animals, the plants that we eat, and the water we drink.
 
Please do not let anyone you know burn garbage, there is no excuse good enough to put your health at risk.

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