Recycle

RECYCLE
We use all kinds of plastics, papers or cans every day. Most of us toss our trash into a dumpster or stuff it down a garbage chute without much thought. Did you know, according to the website recycling-revolution, it puts that on average each of us throws out 4.4 pounds of waste per day. This means almost a ton of trash per person, per year. When we drop our trash on the street, toss it out a car window, or dump it into a lake or river, we pollute our cities, countryside, and waterways. When we leave it out in the open, we spread disease. When we bury it, we risk having poisonous gases and liquids from the refuse seep into our drinking water. Our earth has limited quantity of natural resources, such as air, water, fuels and plants. Some of these resources can be reused if we recycle them.
Recycling saves a lot of natural resources because every time you turn something into the recycling center, part of that is reused on a future product. It is vital to save as many of the earth’s materials as possible. A tree can be replaced with another tree, but once they are used, it is impossible to renew a lump of iron ore or a drum full of oil. About half our domestic waste is paper, which can be recycled if collected carefully. By recycling paper there is less pollution from burning. Recycling paper saves almost 65% energy than making new sheets of paper. Old glass jars and bottles can be crushed and melted to make new glass objects. Same with metals, using up loads of energy to extract aluminium from its ore, so recycling cans made of aluminium saves energy. Plastics are a major source of environmental pollution and are much easy to be recycled that generally thought. Recycling plastics is possible but not simple.
Recycling has a variety of economic impacts. For the companies that buy used goods, recycle them and resell new products, recycling is the source of all their income. In the level of the individual, one of the benefits of recycling is financial income. There are a lot of things lying around the house that we no longer want or need that might just end up in a dumpsite somewhere, that we can recycle and earn money from. There is also the financial benefit for the communities who recycle in that there will be reduced costs of waste disposal or recycling. Do you think recycling is expensive? Consider these recycling facts: aluminum cans are the most valuable item in your bin. Aluminum can recycling helps fund the entire curbside collection. It’s the only packaging material that more than covers the cost of collection and reprocessing for itself.
Recycling can conserves natural resources such as tree, metal, oil, natural gas and many others. For example, recycling one ton of newspaper can save seventeen small trees. Conserving renewable resources through recycling also helps preserve undisturbed land and natural diversity by reducing the amount land needed for agriculture and timber production. Plastic bottles can be recycled into new plastic bottles and polyester fibres for use in fleece jumpers and car mats. This way, we help to reduce the amount of natural resources needed to make products and packaging. Also less mining and extraction occurs, which is beneficial to the natural habitats of wild animals.
We can also save energy by recycling.. Using energy requires the consumption of scarce fossil fuels and involves emissions of numerous air and water pollutants. Supplying recycled materials including collection, processing and transportation use less energy than the steps in supplying virgin materials to industry including extraction, refining, transportation and processing.. Recycling paper cuts energy usage in half. Recycling a ton of glass saves the equivalent of nine gallons of fuel oil. Recycling used aluminum cans requires only about five percent of the energy needed to produce aluminum from bauxite.
Finally, for a conclusion ,the most important aim for us today should be the concept of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We need to reduce the use of non-biodegradable objects, we need to reuse objects as often as possible and recycle as well. Recycling benefits everybody, and takes only a little trash-sorting to put into effect. Small acts of recycling can make a big difference.