Seven Benefits of Recycling
- Recycling Helps Protect The Environment.
- Recycling Helps Conserve Limited Resources
- Recycling Promotes Energy Efficiency
- Recycling Helps Build A Strong Economy
- Recycling Creates Jobs
- Recycling Builds Community
- Recycling Can Be Financially Rewarding
Recycling is a process – A series of activities, if you will, that includes: the collection and sorting of waste materials, the processing of these materials to produce brand new products, and the purchase and use of these new products by consumers.
Recycling is more optimized and efficient way we practice the three R’s of waste management: REDUCE. REUSE. RECYCLE.
Reducing waste that otherwise gets carted off to the recycling centers or landfills is achieved through an intentional decrease in our purchases and consumption, composting of organic waste, and flat refusal to use disposable items like polystyrene and plastic bags. Reusing materials serve to lengthen a particular item’s usage. Examples of this are: repurposing glass bottles into artistic lamp shades, giving your old cell phones to family or friends for reuse, and upcycling street trash bins into community swimming tubs.
But, why recycle? Why go through all the trouble of recycling your garbage? How does recycling benefit us and the environment?
Let’s review the benefits of recycling
Recycling Helps Protect The Environment
Recycling Helps Conserve Limited Resources
Resources like oil and precious metals bold, silver, bauxite, copper, etc. are all finite resources that will be exhausted, sooner or later. Cell phone and computer manufacturers, like Dell and Apple, recognize the need for a steady supply of raw materials – most are active in buy-back programs to recycle materials from used products.
Recycling Promotes Energy Efficiency
Recycling Helps Build A Strong Economy
Recycling Creates Jobs
Recycling Builds Community
Recycling Can Be Financially Rewarding
The benefits of recycling to each of us, to society. and to the environment are our compelling reasons Why we recycle. For many of us, recycling has become second nature – a way of life. It’s a small but extremely vital component of environmental protection – without recycling. All our efforts to protect the planet will be less effective, even futile. Let’s all continue recycling.