pl China doesn't want to recycle for nz or any other country because they want to look after themselves.Recycling is important because if you put the wrong thing in the rong bin it will make a gas could methane and makes fire and set sothing of like a bomb that can hurt or injury you really bad p2 Sometimes it takes thousands of years for most of the terrible trash in landfills to decompose and break or rot down. For example when trash is buried in a landfill with no oxygen it produces methane. This toxic gas is poisonous to living things and bad for the environment. P3 con You can turn old things into new thing like a cardboard box or some left over paper or maybe something else but it is helpful to do that to make new things.