According to “Earth Day” by Claudia Atticot and Alexandra Manning, “The average American produces more than four pounds of garbage per day.” A lot of the trash thrown away is recyclable. We throw away paper or plastic that could be used today. Our Earth is being trashed and Gaylord Nelson wanted to help it by having Earth Day to encourage people to recycle and make our world better. In fact, plastic is a big factor and part of all of the recycling trouble. According to the passage “Earth Day” by Claudia Atticot and Alexandra Manning, “In 2012 the U.S. produced 32 million tons of plastic. Only 9% was recovered from recycling.” If we had recycled more of that plastic, we could power a computer for 25 minutes. This shows that we can take trash