Now for every drop of water that goes trickling down your drain,
There's a billion drops of water that will echo in refrain.
And those billion drops of water make a million quarts or more
That could irrigate a desert, that could fill a reservoir.
And for every drop of petrol that goes out your car's exhaust,
That's a billion drops of petrol to the world forever lost.
That's a million pounds of poison shot into our atmosphere
'Cause we drive instead of walking or of sharing with those near.
Chorus:
People won't you please recycle the resources of the earth.
Reexamine each trash item; see if you can estimate its worth.
People, if we'd just recycle, we could make abundance out of junk.
If we'd change our wasteful habits, we'd keep Spaceship Earth from
being sunk!
II.
And for every pice of plastic that is in your garbage can,
There's a million pounds of plastic that are strewn about the land.
that's a million pounds of plastic that will simply not degrade.
Those are pounds of plastic that could into useful things be made.
And for every piece of paper that you heave into the trash,
There's another million trees that in the forest you'll hear crash.
That's a half a million acres of our forests lying bare.
That's a half a billion trees that won't be filtering our air.
Chorus.
III.
And for every can of soda that you thoughtlessly discard,
There's a million cans of soda in America's backyard.
That is metal we could use to make a million light-weight bikes.
Bikes that we could use for fitness or to take along on hikes.
And for every packaged item tha you purchase in the store,
There's a raw, whole food alternative that will give you so much more.
That's a million pounds of wrapping that you'll never throw a way;
That will not come back to haunt you in the not so far away.