How Recycling Benefits Society

Among the many things that you can do to help protect the environment, recycling is one of the most popular things to do. Recycling refers to the reprocessing of used items or Manufacturing Costs, And Saves Money

According to environment advocates and government planners, recycling saves businesses, governments and households considerable sums of money.

According to the Institute for Local Self Reliance, communities save money when they treat recycling as a replacement for traditional waste disposal and handling methods. Through implementing recycling initiatives in local communities, community managers and planners redesign their garbage collection schedules, as well as reduce the operating time of their trucks and equipments.

While some skeptics argue that recycling costs so much more than traditional garbage disposal methods, green advocates say that the prices paid for scrap materials are a direct measure of the immense value of recyclables. For example, scrap aluminum fetches a high price because recycling it eats up less energy as compared to producing a new aluminum can or container.

Recycling Saves Energy

According to data from the US Energy Information Administration, a paper mill actually uses 40 percent less energy to make paper from recycled materials, than it does to make paper from freshly-cut lumber. Proponents of recycling also trees that the need to use a second timber or logging truck is defrayed when paper is collected and used for recycled.

The US Environmental Protection Agency also notes that recycling aluminum cans for example saves 95 percent energy as compared to producing aluminum cans from bauxite, its virgin source. Producing recycled paper also consumes less energy and water, as compared to harvesting, processing and transporting timber.

Recycling Provides Additional Jobs

Recycling actually helps provide new jobs. While some critics counter that recycling creates jobs that offer low pay and terrible working conditions, recycling advocates stress that the jobs involving the recovery or processing of raw materials such as in mining or timber production, are actually more dangerous than recycling jobs. Mining, timber extraction and other raw material sourcing activities also often result in creating deplorable conditions for both workers and the surrounding communities.

Apart from saving money and energy, recycling also helps save precious natural resources. Paper recycling for example, helps protect forests, protects wildlife habitats, a and also allows for a wiser management of other natural resources. Recycling also cuts pollution, reduces the need for building more landfills, and also creates more jobs and residual business opportunities.

Landfill Harmonic- The world sends us garbage... We send back music.(video)

If you like our teaser, please share and follow us in Facebook. If you wish to make a donation to complete the film please visit: creativevisions.org/get-involved/cap/landfill-harmonic

---

Thank you for stopping by and reading my post "How Recycling Benefits Society ". I have my most recent post listed below. Have a look around my site and tell me what you think. It is the only way that I will get any better.
Thanks again and y'all come back now

Keep Smiling
reuben

My Recently Published Post

Solar Panels Everything You Wanted To Know
The Benefits Of Wind Power
A Review Of Today’s Popular Recycling Programs
Easy-To-Follow Home Recycling Tips
Wind and Solar Power

Related articles

• People don't recycle things that look like trash (arstechnica.com)
• A Greener Back to School (betsywild.wordpress.com)
• Changing Views on Paper Recycling (environmentalleader.com)
• How to avoid another Nasdaq meltdown: Slow down trading (qz.com)
• Paperman comes knocking (thehindu.com)
• SunshineBloggers Urges Readers to Recycle (virtual-strategy.com)
• Where do your recyclables (really) go? (greenreview.blogspot.com)
• The advantages of recycling centers pompano (rullsensmith2013.wordpress.com)
• The Benefits of Recycling, and The Philosophy of Reuse (socyberty.com)
• Duty And Responsibility Of Paper Recyclers (larrydkeen.com)

Photo credit: nickwheeleroz / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA