Earth day is an international celebration to promote environment protection and support environmental issues. It is celebrated by over 192 countries, including places like Panama, where they planted 100 species of endangered orchids to celebrate, or in Afghanistan, where they planted 28 million trees. Earth day began on April 22, 1970. It was founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson to inspire people to protect the environment. The holiday became national in 1990 because of Denis Hayes. Now, over a billion people celebrate it, and more people are now aware of the impact all of humanity had on the environment.

To celebrate Earth Day, one can plant trees, ride bikes, try and not use as much energy, spread awareness in one's community, do pretty much any activity to help the Earth and reduce your own impact, and either start to or continue to recycle. Many things can potentially be recycled, including aluminum, paper, plastic, and glass. We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum cans each year, and since there is no limit to how many times aluminum can be recycled, we can save a large amount of it from entering the waste stream and ending up in landfills, not decomposing. Also, recycling paper can have a huge effect. The Earth's rainforests are being cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute for virgin material to make paper products. If we recycle, we can greatly reduce this amount of paper used. Planting trees can also reduce the dramatic and terrible impact of this deforestation.