Recycling Or Converting Waste Of Energy?

Recycling and conservation are the solution to climate change and to saving energy. America sends a majority of its trash to landfills when it could be put to much better use by means of recycling or even by burning it to produce energy. Pollution is greatly reduced when recycling because the need to collect new raw materials goes down. Recycling is great because it can help people conserve this Earth for future generations who deserve to have a healthy Earth. Once the United Stated reaches recycling levels of 75%, it would be the equivalent of getting rid of fifty five million cars from the roads in the U.S. each year.

Some of the risks of incinerating waste are that if it's not controlled incineration it could give off atrocious fumes that are harmful to human life and wildlife. Some of the benefits are that if controlled can lower waste by a large amount. Cost can sometimes be a gigantic factor in our waste management because of the machines used to incinerate the trash in a safe way. The fumes from the incineration can be very dangerous if breathed in because it's just a waste that is harmful already thrown out. This method will lower and raise pollution at two different rates. It will lower it by destroying all of our trash at a fast rate and raising pollution by the fumes that can fog up the sky. The skyline of our city will be affected by the smog that the incineration gives off, but with our filtration system, it can be stopped. This method is very useful, except that it can also be harmful if not handled properly. The design of the incineration machine can also play a part in how we can control the fumes that are given off. Our design is a way to turn the harsh smog back into clean air by filtering the polluted air. The tradeoffs would decrease because if this design works, then all waste in our city would mostly be burned and little bits would still be used for recreational uses. This can be a loss of cheap resources because of our playgrounds and benches we will have to use wood and plastic which cannot be cheap. We can save a decent amount of waste for recreational use in the future. If we save some of the waste instead of incinerating it all we can have a huge impact on our city's budget. The only engineering impact that would be more important would be making specific factories for the production of recycled material equipment. The engineering disciplines that we are using are industrial for

Waste to energy is a great component in helping to keep generating clean, renewable energy with the credible management with municipal solid waste. Waste to energy is the best resource for communities around the world to use for reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering energy from waste.

Over the years, recycling has been apart of the american community, but recycling has been costly and has been causing more pollution to the united states than recycling it self. I think that the recycling in the united states should be abolished because, the pollution produced by the collection trucks and the recycling process itself creates more emissions and it’s more expensive and takes more energy and water to recycle old paper than to cut down and process pine trees and then plant pine seedlings.

America currently has a growing population of over 300 million people. Every day the average American produced 4.4 pounds of garbage. As a nation Americans produced over 200 million tons of waste in 2013. Only 34.4 percent of that waste was recovered. Over 65 percent of that garbage is left to rot and pollute the environment. Many other countries face the same epidemic. There are many ways Americans can reduce pollution and keep our planet cleaner, one for those ways for instance is recycling. Recycling defined is to treat or process used or waste materials, to make suitable for reuse. The process starts by knowing what to recycle and how. Understanding the effects and benefits of reprocessing can persuade people to make

In 2012, Americans generated about 251 million tons of trash and recycled and composted almost 87 million tons of this material (“Municipal Solid Waste”). There are many ways to end our environmental crisis, such as reducing our amount of trash, recycling items, and reusing other items.

The EPA has a ‘Waste Management Hierarchy’ and it begins with reducing and reusing what we consume in order to reduce waste.

(according to sources). Frankly, trash kills the earth. Additionally, the stink of burning anything can

Yes, recycling is often preferable to sending materials straight to the landfill, but recycling has its own demons. A big concern regarding recycling is the possibility of encouraging over consumption. As award winning environmental journalist Amy Westervelt explains in her essay, “Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment”, people will ease the guilty they feel for massively over-consuming disposable goods by tossing the used items into their recycling bins (213). But not everything that’s recyclable gets recycled—recycling is

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

My main concern about waste disposal is toward poverty. In every society, for it to work effectively the waste disposal has to be handled properly. The lack of proper waste disposal can contribute for the underdevelopment of the community. For instance, in poorer community that does not have resources to dispose of the trash properly create a series of problems. For example, when there are a lot of trashes in a community, it will prevent investors to invest in a community, the housing market, schools and stores will decline, in consequence the houses will loose its value. This will create a ripple effect because people will start immigrating toward a better place where it is much cleaner. Families will try to move to a better place where their kids can have a better future. I ask myself who wants to live in a dirty environment? I hope nobody. That’s why I believe that the government should help the poorest communities about the ways to handle waste disposal, and better educate them about recycling.

Waste management applies to a variety of resources, from food to energy to water. Nature itself produces no waste,

Therefore, this correlation makes it clear that countries need to have the right tools to deal with the increasing amount of waste in order to minimize both the economic costs, and the environmental negative effects that come with waste. One can argue that recycling is one of the best tools to fight the increase in waste production. Recycling would not only lower the total amount of waste that needs to be disposed of in the end of the waste stream, which would reduce both the cost and the environmental damage, but recycling would also lower the need to use virgin raw materials, which reduces the strain on natural resources.

Pollution is a major problem globally and it becomes greater as the human population continues to rise exponentially. One of the major problems with increased population is higher waste production, which creates increased air, soil, and water pollution. To resolve this problem waste reduction must be of primary importance in preventing and reducing pollution. Waste management can be an expensive undertaking if not managed correctly so sustainable practices must be addressed. While pollution prevention and reduction programs can be expensive if not managed correctly, waste reduction is essential for the reduction and prevention of pollution.

First, the size of original waste would greatly decrease. From the statistic from the Japan government, using incinerators will reduce the solid mass of rubbish by 80%-85% and also the volume of waste by 95%-96%. This shows that using incinerators would decrease a large number of solid waste. Second, the generated heat could be used to generate electricity. As the heat from the incineration could be used as a kind of energy. The power stations could burn less coal and petroleum in order to release less air pollutant. This would help to ease the situation of global warning.