You can also turn it into a pool, bath or beach toy for your kids. Slice or cut out simple shapes, and make a sail using a toothpick, lollipop or some thin stick. You can also design Styrofoam into rings or squares that the children can use as a float in the pool. Styrofoam boxes can also be used for leftovers to help germinate seeds. While some critics counter that recycling creates jobs that offer low pay and terrible working conditions, recycling advocates stress that the jobs involving the recovery or processing of raw materials such as in mining or timber production, are actually more dangerous than recycling jobs. Mining, timber extraction and other raw material sourcing activities also often result in creating deplorable conditions for both workers and the surrounding communities. You may also need to break cardboard down, depending on your town or city s recycling program, so that it easily fits in a brown paper bag. You may also bring it along with your mixed paper wastes. Cal or notify your local community recycling facility, and find out whether they accept corrugated and flat cardboard. The dumping of these waste in landfills, or their burning in incinerators, is already having a very negative impact on the environment. Because a computer has different components that are made from a wide array of raw materials, these release toxic ingredients like mercury, lead, cadmium, and other radioactive material into the groundwater, soil or air. From 2005 alone, 50 percent of all paper products in the country was recycled, which amounted to 42 million tons of recycled paper. Container and packaging recycling has also increased by forty percent. The amount of solid waste ending up in US landfills has also decreased by 9 million tons from 1990 to 2005, and the number continues to decline each year. The best way for making money from recycling is by going to a recycling center that pays for items like bottles, cans and newspapers. If you wish to expand your collection of recyclable items, you could ask your neighbors to give you their old items or appliances. You can do this by putting up signs or advertisements in your area, where you can arrange to pick up the recyclable items from your neighbor s homes.