Recycle

Benefits and Drawbacks for the use of Recycling

"Recycling is everybody’s business. From industry to government,
from schools to our very own households, America’s commitment to
recycling has helped keep our communities clean and our economy strong.
Federal agencies are further reducing waste generation, increasing recycling,
and increasing purchases of recycled products.
Working together, there is even more we can do. Today, we challenge every
American to step forward, take action, and contribute to this important
national effort. By bringing new partners to the recycling efforts of businesses
and families across the nation, we will better protect our natural
resources, improve our quality of life, and strengthen our economy."
— White House Task Force on Recycling

Why is recycling important?

Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live as well as living life in a fresher, cleaner, and healthier manner. Recycling is important to both the natural environment and us human beings. It plays a significant role in our modern society today. Without recycling, our world would end up leading to global warming, which is not a very good thing. We may not know it, but the waste we deposit increases relatively high, which causes recycling to go up even higher. We must always be on our tip toes in reacting fast as the amount of waste we establish is increasing all the time.

• Increasing wealth means that people are buying more products and ultimately creating more waste.
• Increasing population means that there are more people on the planet to create waste.
• New packaging and technological products are being developed, much of these products contain materials that are not biodegradable.
• New lifestyle changes, such as eating fast food and using fast items, by creating additional waste that isn’t biodegradable.

What we should do...

-Make our air and environment cleaner and healthier.
-Give discarded products a new and useful life.
-Save the city money to reinvest.
-Leave future generations a promising world.

Benefits

There are many beneficial ways that help not only our economy but also our land. Where would we be without our land or even worse, without a future? That is our biggest concern right now. Today, wasteful garbage increases more and more each day. That is why we are the ones that need to put an end to it all, just by simply voluntaring to recycle. Is that so hard?
Recycling is helps reduce gas emissions. It is also beneficially helpful by reducing the two inputs, energy and raw materials, to a manufacturing system and rescues the total amount of desecrated materials for discarding. By converting waste into valuable products, recycling establishes jobs, contributes feedstock to manufacturing, and adds significant value to the entire U.S. economy.

Recycling...

• Saves our environment.
• Preserves resources for our future generations.
• Saves natural resources.
• Prevents emissions of many greenhouse gases and water pollutants.
• Saves energy.
• Supplies valuable unrefined materials to industry.
• Creates jobs.
• Reduces costs.
• Stimulates the growth of greener technologies.
• Reduces the need for new landfills and incinerators.
• Establishes an accomplishment of a “feel good” attitude of being environmentally helpful.

Drawbacks

Though, there may be numerous of beneficial ways to recycle, there are also drawbacks, with collecting methods. Who would have thought there would be drawbacks? Well in every case to an issue, there is the bad with the good. Let’s take a look at some of the interesting drawbacks there are:

• In most cities, the main problem is the expense, due to the population and waste that are continuously increasing each day.
• The increase of collecting separated wastes adds to vehicle movements and the production of carbon dioxide.
• During the process of recycling, people might accidentally use improper procedures.
• Most people find it easier to just throw things away.
• Recycling does in fact require lots of energy. Furnaces are heated up to a thousand or more degrees Celsius in most cases.
• Not every material product can be recycled.
• It requires more effort.
• Remembering that not all people recycle.