Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The importance of recycling

By Corey Talbot


There are many reasons that recycling is the best way to handle any wastes that you create, whether in your home or office. Recycling waste is an important part of life, and everyone should plan the recycling of waste in their homes in order to ensure that our planet is cared for and protected.

The first reason that recycling waste is important is that it ensures that the waste doesn't harm the atmosphere. Recycling is just one of the methods of disposing of waste, and the other methods are:

Incineration

Landfill

Ocean Dumping

Each of these methods has many downsides to using them:

Incineration causes large amount of carbon to be released into the atmosphere, which harms the atmosphere even more. Landfill takes up a large amount of space in many areas around the world, which occupies land that can be used for construction or other useful purposes. Landfill also causes a large amount of toxic gases to be released into the air, which further harms the environment. Ocean dumping causes the depletion of marine life, and can actually poison humans through the toxins in the garbage being transmitted to humans through the fish that they eat.

Another reason that the recycling of waste is so important is that it uses items that are garbage and transforms them into something new. Every man made material can be reused and recycled into something new, and it is important to ensure that, by recycling waste materials, humanity does not continue to add to the amount of non-biodegradable waste around today. Instead of constantly creating new amounts of plastic, aluminium, and paper, recycling wastes ensures that products made out of those things can be reused.

Paper can be recycled and used to make newspapers, magazines, and new paper. Cardboard can be recycled to create new cardboard products. Glass can be melted down to create new glass products. Aluminium cans can be melted down to create more aluminium cans. Plastic from bottles, wrappers, and packaging can be recycled into new plastic products. There are so many ways that recycling waste is the best decision every individual around the world should make.

It is important to manage any waste you create in your home by separating your wastes. Recycling waste starts by making small decisions every day, and the first step that you should take to begin the recycling of waste in your house is to set a few different garbage bins in your house. Set one for biodegradable garbage, one for glass products, and a third for plastic. You should also have a way of collecting cans that your use in your house.

Once you have begun separating your garbage, you can easily take your garbage down to your local recycling centre. Some places even pay you a certain amount per kilo that you recycle, and you can try to find some of these places when you are planning how you will be recycling waste that you generate.

Make that decision to start recycling, and you will be making a difference and saving the planet in the best way that you can.




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