How does recycling old buttons help the environment?

# It does not get lodged into animals mouths or throats causing pain and most of the time result of choking to death. # It prevents the occurance of polluting and digging for more plastic matierials to melt down and make into toys or other plastic items. # If the button is metal it provents the gas and money from being spent to dig up more metal. # If the button is metal recycling it helps prevent rust and pollution occurances with liquid rust. # It prevents the pollutions caused by the gas it takes to run the machines to dig up the materials to make the buttons.