Recycling trash is one really important way that we can help the Earth stay clean! It's much better to recycle things than throw them away, but it's super important to recycle plastic! Jessi is here to tell you why! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow SOURCES: https://www.earthday.org/earthday/ http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27442625 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-brief-history-of-plastic-world-conquest/ https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/plastics-in-the-ocean/ https://www.down2earthmaterials.ie/2013/02/14/decompose/