I think that people in America would like to recycle and "go green" but the fact of the matter is that we are too lazy. If you were to place a trash can next to somebody and then a recycling bin 20 feet away I am willing to bet a high percentage of people would just toss their plastic bottle in the recycling bin. You might sit there and say that I am wrong, but i see problems worse than this in our own school. We have recycling bins and trash cans next to each other and I see kids throw their bottles in the trash. Why you may ask? I ask the same question to myself but I do not know the answer. Maybe we just don't think about it enough and if that is the case then recycling needs to be advertised more. Recycling has many benefits so I cannot really understand the reason why people would not recycle. Maybe there should be some regulations on recycling, but all I know is that we are not utilizing our re-use of re-usable resources. I think we need to take more accountability for our actions, and begin to recycle as a nation instead of just select communities.