It Really Isn’t Garbage

Lyrics

It really isn't garbage 'til you mix it all together It really isn't garbage 'til you throw it away Separate your paper, plastic, compost, glass, and metal And then you get to use it all another day There's garbage in the kitchen, garbage in the bathroom Garbage in the basement and in the backyard too Sometimes it seems to me that we are burying our future That stinkin' pile of trash gives me the garbage blues It really isn't garbage 'til you mix it all together It really isn't garbage 'til you throw it away Separate your paper, plastic, compost, glass, and metal And then you get to use it all another day Don't put it in a landfill, it gets in your drinking water It hurts the fish and beaches if you put it in the sea Take time to just recycle is (one) solution to pollution Don't count on someone else it's up to you and me It really isn't garbage 'til you mix it all together It really isn't garbage 'til you throw it away Separate your paper, plastic, compost, glass, and metal And then you get to use it all another day Now there are some folks who say " We really ought yo burn it" "It's so convenient, makes new jobs, electricity" But if we're gonna burn it well you know we're gonna breathe it And what to do with what is left there is no guarantee It really isn't garbage 'til you mix it all together It really isn't garbage 'til you throw it away Separate your paper, plastic, compost, glass, and metal And then you get to use it all another day