Recycling Of Recycling

Household waste management is a growing problem in the United States and many other parts of the world. “The U.S. creates a lot of household solid waste per day per person. If there is a huge population of millions of people in a small area, household garbage can easily accumulate to 100,000 pounds per day. A few years ago, residents made a million tons of city waste per year and a billion tons of industrial solid wastes. In 2006, the U.S. residents generated half of 251 tons million tons of municipal solid waste per year and about 8 billion tons of industrial solid waste. This tremendous amount of waste includes both hazardous and nonhazardous waste. (Massawe, et.al, 2014)” A better understanding of household behavior is needed to assist

Recycling is a process that makes certain materials to be reused in some other ways; which gives improvement over landfilling, incineration and reduce environmental pollution.

Recycling is a method used to change waste materials into original resources to avoid waste of potentially beneficial resources. Utilization is a key factor of modern waste reduction and it is a substantial feature of the ‘Reduce’, ‘Reuse’, ‘Recycle’ waste hierarchy. Recycling is far more authoritative than most people are inclined to consider. The first rule of eulogy is that everything is connected.

Us humans use so many products in our daily lives. We usually use the product and just throw the container away, not knowing that it might contain chemicals that are harmful to the environment. We also eat so many products and throw away the wrap, container, bag, etc, in the same trash can. We don't separate our garbage and select the right category for it. Sometimes humans don't realize what it takes to make a certain product and we just use it one time when we can use it more than just one time. There are so many ways us humans can recycle and help the environment. Sometimes we are not well informed of the causes that lead to global warming and contamination harmful for all the humans, animals, plants, and all our natural resources and the many different ways we can help to stop all this. We are responsible for taking care of our planet, and preserving it in good condition. it is very important to recycle and help the environment.

Although there are numerous benefits to recycling such as a whole job and market industry and environmental conservation, majority of these benefits cannot be accessed without the participation of the public. Unfortunately, a large majority of the general population does not recycle mostly because of the time it takes to simply sort recyclables or take to a drop-off facility. Therefore, a new system should be put in place and spread to increase the recycling participation to completely access the benefits of recycling and to reach a strong level of sustainability. Thankfully, most people are motivated by money or lack thereof, so a deposit system would motivate more people to recycle by giving them the choice to make their money back and recycle or simply lose money. Additionally, this deposit system would motivate the public because they would simply input a relatively low time cost for a financial reward. Because of these known motivational trends, the deposit system will definitively improve the recycling participation rate leading to increased environmental conservation and a solid level of sustainability.

Although recycling of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) based plastics decrease the amount of these polymers that end up in municipal waste, the cost of recycling these plastics for the producer are an important factor to weigh in to whether they should be recycled or not. PVC is a soft and flexible plastic used to make clear plastic food wrapping, computer cables, and even pipes and parts for plumbing. Because PVC contains numerous toxins, food products using PVC require virgin material for their construction. In general, there are two types of PVC recycling processes, mechanical and feedstock, which include their own respect costs, purposes, and benefits. Although there are a large number of costs for the producer for recycling PVC from the toxicity to the inefficacy of its recycling process, there are many benefits that include reducing the amount of PVC in municipal waste and its usefulness as a recycled product.

The recycling process where all things recyclable is mixed together in one recycling bin is called Single-stream recycling. It is easy for consumers and businesses and reduces miles driven for collection trucks and related tailpipe outflow. By making recycling easier, at least 40% more recyclable items are collected overall.

Recycling is an essential component of speedy and efficient waste management. Non-biodegradable wastes and products sapping precious natural resources, essentially trees, and fossil fuels can wreak havoc on our environment and bio-diversity ("Recycling", 2017). My goal is to start an at home recycling program by following the correct steps to be taken that will not only benefit me but will also help the environment. There will be critical timelines for implementing these action steps and ways to measure progress towards achieving my plan. I will also need to find out what barriers I might encounter during the process and how to overcome them. After that, I should find support resources to help me tie everything together and ensure that I am following my plan and getting as much information as possible.

Have you seen how great the sky looks lately? Individually as humans we have been doing a great job in maintaining our environment. Just look at how many more landfills we have compared to recycling plants, It’s truly an amazing sight to behold. It is nice to know that all of the materials that could have been reused are going back in the ground where they came from. We are often bombarded with news articles, tv commercials, and social media about how the destruction of the Earth is approaching at a pace faster than before. These are alternative facts. Trees are everywhere. They’d rule the world if it weren’t for us. It is difficult to travel for more than ten minutes without seeing a tree. However, self-proclaimed environmentalists get aggravated if you try to cut so much as a single tree without pledging to plant one hundred more!

Recycling the waste or converting the waste is very crucial, waste to value is one of the leading cures to help the country economically and environmentally. Leaving the rubbish unattended will release harmful gases thus we have to take an action and think out of the box and think of a way to use the waste and convert it to a beneficial product creating a closed circle with no waste to concern about.

Due to the global consumer society we live in, the world has no shortage of trash. There are billions of people across the world that purchase, use, and dispose of products. As a result of the high-volume waste production, there are different options for disposing that waste. The leading options of disposing trash are recycling and incineration. Recycling renews waste to become reused and redistributed whereas incineration burns waste into energy. It is significant to choose the correct route of disposing waste to make sure it benefits communities, the economy, and the environment. Natural resources are finite, so it is necessary to use a disposal process that reduces the raw material production and extends the life of products that already exist. For this reason, recycling is a great solution.

“Recycling is the only key to a less polluted future” - Anonymous. This quote is a quote that we should start to follow. I think recycling should be a mandatory rule for everyone in the entire world.

Plastic bags are an everyday part of our lives, we use them without thought and often discard them in the trash once they are no longer needed. If you looked in your kitchen in the pantry or under the kitchen sink; you would probably find a significant number of plastic bags stored there. We rarely stop to think about what the proper way to dispose of a plastic bag would be or if there is a proper way to achieve this. Just take a moment to reflect about how much plastic based products are a vital part of our everyday lives. Then ask yourselves, what we as a community, can do to explore methods for the disposal of plastics bags. One option that comes to mind includes contacting your local county representatives to ask about increased recycling or proper disposal opportunities for plastic bags. If recycling plastic bags in your local area is too cost prohibitive, then perhaps there should be a discussion on alternative options the plastic bag.

Educating the community is a vital part of making the recycling program more successful, reduce landfill waste, preserves limited resources and encourage community involvement.

Earth’s total resources are only good for 2 billion people at the current demand, according to “The World Counts”. However, our population as of now is 7.5 billion people. The idea of recycling was not to address until the year 1970. The motto then was “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” (Bradbury, 2014). Overall, the sum of this matter is the consumption of a resource is faster than it can be replenished. Causes for resource depletion are overpopulation, overconsumption that reverts to waste, deforestation that concludes with the destruction of ecosystems along with leading loses of biodiversity. Adding with mining of minerals and oils, technology and industrial development, and lastly pollution and contamination resources (TheWorldCounts).The philosophy behind the general idea of recycling is towards the demands of ‘We get what we want when we need it’. With that type of mindset, it diverts to the main reason of why our resource is being depleted at a fast rate. Although, no matter what direction the issues face, it still remains as a fact that we consume more resources than we can replenish. That is why it is necessary to recycle but it is not efficient for the time being. If manufacturers made everything biodegradable (such as cardboard) that issue can be alleviated.