Can We Say "NO" To Recycling
Lately the earth’s capacity to tolerate exploitation and absorb solid wastes disposal has diminished, due to excess trashing. People dispose lots of stuff, and simply do not care. Therefore scientists found out a way to reuse things and that process was called "recycling". This new approach seemed quite successful at the beginning, until its true identity appeared. Recycling first started as man’s best friend, people were intrigued by this new phenomena. What could be better than using things that were already used. Recycling has been very useful especially that man is constantly consuming, burning up, wearing out, replacing and disposing at an alarming rate.(Durning 1992). However, unfortunately recycling
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According to Plenum, incineration is the process of disposing of the "Combustible portion of the community wastes"(81). This burning pollutes the air in the area around it. It is not the way to solve the problem of recycling because it solving one problem by creating another which is air pollution. In this process a number of pollutants are emitted which poisons the air. Carbon dioxide and lead are by products of burning that most health organisations consider highly toxicating. These by products affect children mentally and physically. In addition, carbon dioxide is considered one of the main reasons of global warming because the molecule itself captures heat an stores it in it thus creating the green house effect. Besides plastics are rather toxicating when burnt according to Plenum, Acrylic type plastics emit HCN gas, Bromine components that are added to plastics results in the emission of HBr , which are all dangerous pollutants (157). Obviously burning cannot be considered an alternative and as stated in Consumer Reports, "Recycling does help to keep garbage out of landfills and incinerators, both of which pose environmental problems."(Feb 1994). Although burning lessens the physical amount of the waste materials, it is considered one of the easiest way to pollute the air.
Though these are great advantages to us and the environment, but recycling
Recycling has been the environmental crusade to reducing the human footprint, with it’s spotlight shining down on in recent years. It was the noblest of causes, recycling being a great idea for the environment and society; but it is being handled poorly. Its modern descendant has turned into a corporate scheme with recycling becoming a business, instead of being about the environment because marketers are using environmentalism as a excuse for overconsumption, recycling products are only being recycled for profit, and cities & big business use inflated numbers to attain media attention. Let’s now take a look at the bread and butter of
In recycling, raw materials that have already been obtained are used, which reduces the need for more materials to be extracted. If we recycle enough to slow the rate of extraction bringing it lower or equal to the rate that our resources replenish themselves we are living sustainable. This project is especially important because it focuses on recycling objects that take a lot of resources to make and that can't be organically broken
Recycling is a very essential and crucial process in our world today. The term recycling means that waste can be converted into new products instead of being discarded. As the population continues to grow, humans are using more and more products. In order to reduce the amount of waste on planet Earth, and to preserve its resources, recycling is significant. Not only does recycling allow the environment to thrive, but it also allows living people to thrive as well. There are many materials that can be recycled. Plastics, electronics, aluminum, food and glass are only but a few products that can be recycled. Recycling can benefit our environment in numerous amount of ways. However, without recycling, negative impacts on our environment can occur. Some of these effects include pollution whether it is air, land or sea, depletion of natural resources and even an increase threat to global warming. Therefore, recycling is extremely important to sustain our environment.
Recycling is presently one of the most controversial topics, considering that while most individuals put across their support regarding the act the number of individuals who actually do something in order to recycle is much smaller. Many people are currently unable or unwilling to recycle properly because the process often requires a series of changes in one's life. It is thus essential for the authorities to provide educational programs meant to assist individuals in understanding why recycling is important and in learning how to recycle effectively. People need to accept the fact that the benefits of recycling will reflect on the future and that conditions are currently critical as a result of the fact that the masses are generally unacquainted with the importance of this process.
Recycling is the process in which materials, that are no longer needed, are remanufactured making new products in order to prevent wastage of useful material and also to reduce pollution, landfill, greenhouse gases and energy usage.
The use of recycling has been introduced by many already noticing how fast our environment is deteriorating, Considering the fact, since recycling has been introduced, more and more people are taking this route to improve our society as a whole, but not everyone is recycling. When factories manufacture products using recycled materials, it requires less energy which leads to producing less gas emissions, decrease air pollution, and helps with the issue of climate change. As air pollution and exposure to air pollution increases, there are several health concerns that may be exposed to humans. If everyone makes the lifestyle change to recycle it could lead to major benefits for the world we live in. Some benefits would include the reduction for the need to extract new resources and by preserving raw materials (“Benefits of
Recycling During the early 1970s, as communities across the United States saw their landfills filling up, attention turned to alternative methods of garbage disposal, such as incineration and recycling. While incineration proved to be a thorny issue due to its toxic ash byproduct, recycling was embraced by Americans as an effective way to offset rising garbage production rates. Today, demand for recycled products is beginning to match supply, and the percentage of waste going into landfills and incinerators is decreasing steadily.
These days, our earth has been filled by a lot of waste. There is a lot of garbage, plastic waste, and electronic waste. We always produce it and dump it when we need the new one. Our waste are piling up and continuously accumulating. Plastic waste is one of the biggest problems for us now. And our solution in this problem is recycling. In my opinion, recycling is a way to manage used items into new products. We can reduce, reuse, and recycling (3R) waste management (Peter, 2013). We can reduce our waste clothes with reuse it. There are some reasons why peoples recycle used or unwanted items, which are, prevent wasting unusable materials that still have usage after recycled, reduce the application of raw materials, reduce energy
People Need to Recycle In the United Sates, where the population is inflated every year. The amount of space for landfills decreases every day. The need for recycling should not be asked, it should just be done out of habit. Everyone in America needs to recycle, to help the lamdfill problem, help the environment, and help produce new products from recycled goods. In America there is about two-hundred and eight tons of residential and commercial trash generated a year, 4.3 pounds per person a day (Prichard 1A). This is an overwhelming amount of trashed produced yearly. When people recycle this number can be drastically cut. But many people do not practice and use
Furthermore, incineration is also a common method, which involves burning of waste material in specialized machinery and producing electricity in the process (Assamoi, Lawryshyn, 2011). Incineration causes a number of different problems such as releasing dangerous emissions of metals and other noncombustible matter into the atmosphere. A number of these emissions have local effects only, but many of them affect the environment on a much bigger scale. (National Research Council (US) Committee on Health Effects of Waste Incineration, 2000). In a research done by Wing et al. (1992), shows lower lung function rates in children living in areas close to incineration sites. In general, there is a link between both incinerators and landfills with reproductive issues and cancer. (Porta et al., 2009)
air and land pollution. By recycling, we can lessen the waste materials that are placed into
We, humans, are producing waste every day, polluting and destroying our planet. To save the world, many people believe recycling is the obvious solution. It is the process of converting certain waste into a reusable material. Therefore, the recycle motto is “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle”. However, have you ever wondered why the word recycle is placed at the end? Well, it’s because it is not the only way to reduce waste and save the world from global warming. Recycling may have many advantages, but its disadvantages’ list is not a short one either. Recycling may look very simple and easy method, but when there is a need for a new unit of waste recycling, it takes up a lot of space. Not to mention the amount of money the building costs along with paying the staffs, buying new utility vehicles, upgrading the recycling unit and different types of chemical disposals. It is not only expensive but also, unhygienic, unsafe and unsightly with piles of waste materials on every location. These wastes spread infectious diseases putting human health at risk. Aside from recycling
Have you ever thought of a world without trash? If so, it may take a while to find out. It may seem harmless and innocent, but littering is an unhealthy habit people of all ages in each country do every day. Littering is a second nature to some people; after doing it for so long and often, they do not realize they do it. As more and more people continue to litter, environments, animals, and humans are being harmed by people’s carless actions. Most people don’t think that by throwing a piece of trash on the ground could be very harmful, but when that trash finds other trash it starts to build up and turn into junk. This pile of junk starts to become a nuisance to everybody around it. Not only does it stink, it looks bad as well. All this trash also affects out local drinking water, if the trash was to contaminate our local water treatment plant it would force the facility to throw away all that treated water costing us lots of money. The trash also plays a dangerous role within the local wildlife community, animals are becoming injured while in search for food some even dying from getting entangled or caught within the trash. All this trash is also playing a huge role in global warming, when trash sits in the sun methane gas gets released. When high amounts of methane get into the atmosphere it starts to damage the ozone layer which is there to protect life on earth from harmful rays of light coming from the sun. Believe it or not, but that gum wrapper or cigarette butt that
Recycling refers to a process where conversion of waste materials is done thus coming up with fresh products that inhibit waste of materials, which are potentially useful (Lynn & Eda, 15). “Consumers might also be more inclined to engage in green consumption if they know that they are making a difference.” It decreases the use of new raw materials, decrease usage of energy, decrease pollution of air coming from incineration, and pollution of water from landfilling by decreasing the need for conservative disposal of waste and reduce emissions of greenhouse gas as compared to the production of plastic. Recycling is one of the main ways encouraged to help curb environmental degradation while reducing waste. In the waste hierarchy, it is the third element of the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (Perritano, np). Recyclable materials involve many types of paper, glass, textiles, plastic, electronics, and metal. The composting or various biodegradable wastes like garden or food waste also regarded recycling. Materials that should be recycled can either be collected from the curbside or presented to a collection point and then categorized and recycled into fresh materials intended for manufacturing. The paper explores the benefits of recycling to environmental, energetic, and economic factors.
Serious environmental problems are happening at this time. These complications happen for one simple reason, people do not pay attention about the importance of caring the environment and saving natural resources for future generations. There is one activity that includes reusing materials or products to save energy and raw materials, looks like a good solution for all the environmental problems occurring in our planet. Since early ages, people had been learning about the word recycle. Many people know the meaning and the purpose of recycling. The real concern is that recycling is impractical for several