the terms recycle and reuse are often used interchangably. although they are both good things to practice they are in fact to seperate things. in the recycling process, a large ammount of energy is used in order to change one old product into a new one. this is probably the greatest downfall of recycling. often times it is best to reuse items instead of always throwing them in the recycle bin. a glass bottl efor instance can be used to collect change.  a piece of paper has a lot more use than we give it credit for too. get creative, fill a whole page with work from numerous sources. recycling is great; it cuts down on the innitial production of goods, but try reusing things to save energy.