Recycling is important if we want to preserve our planet in the future. It is better for future

Recycling is not a new concept. The history of recycling goes back thousands of years. According to the Environmental Encyclopedia article “Recycling”, published in 2011:

As of January 1, 2003, the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario started to ship one hundred percent of its garbage into the landfills of Michigan.  In 2003, Toronto exported garbage at a

In Canada, a disparity exists among the provinces in terms of recycling efforts and initiatives. A recent study ranked the Canadian provinces in terms of recycling, and based the rankings on both access and utilization of recycling programs. The top three Canadian provinces in 2006 were Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Ontario (Statistics Canada, 2008, para. 16-17). One might find it surprising that the smallest province in Canada is actually the national leader in terms of recycling. The worst province in Canada in terms

Many states such as Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa and New York have established incentives for those who recycle. For those people who choose to recycle they are awarded a deposit or a refund on any type of plastic or aluminum bottles. This is law is known as a Bottle bill or container deposit law. Most states refund five cents per can or bottle, but some can refund up to10 cents. The amount of the refund depends on the recycle price on the container. On some soda cans you can receive between 5 and 10 cents for every can the

In Broward County, Florida there are an estimated 812,565 housing units and 48.1% of those housing units are multi-unit structures (U.S Census Bureau, 2014, p. 1). Currently, the county’s 31 cities and unincorporated areas of the county have implemented recycling programs that provide single stream recycling to single-family homes. Broward County cities provide single-family home residents a recycling container at no additional cost, for use in single stream recycling, in which recyclable items are all placed together in one container. These containers are placed curbside and are collected once a week. Residents are encouraged to recycle the following items; newspapers, inserts, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, office paper, soft covered books, file folders, cartons, crushed boxes, plastic containers, cardboard and aluminum, steel and tin food and beverage containers.

Solid wastes are any abandoned or discarded materials, thus solid wastes can be liquid, solid, semi-solid or containerized gaseous material. The solid waste contains municipal garbage, waste tires, industrial waste, agricultural refuse, toys and furniture, oil and so on. Normally, The Municipal Solid Waste contains four components, which are recycling, composting, disposal and waste to energy. The biggest issue facing Toronto in the near feature would be the solid waste issue because solid waste would cause pollution, land lacks and health problems. The way to address the waste problem would be collaborating with the government through specific method and program such as invented new technology, increase involvement of public engagement and use of geography information system and mathematic model. There are some evidences show that solid waste would be the serious problem. Toronto’s 2015 Vital Signs Report points that “After increases over three years in the amount of residential waste generated (from 799,812 tonnes in 2011 to 815,450 in 2012 and 823,743 in 2013), 2014 saw a small 2.3% decrease from 2013 (to 804,369 tonnes).”(Toronto Foundation, p158). At the meantime, it seems that Toronto issues are getting worse because it is hard to find landfill site, the rising disposal costs relate to landfill and the way that transport the waste to Michigan would cause high transportation cost.

Canadians create a lot of waste. In 2008, Canadians produced over 1,031 kilograms of waste per person and overall sent approximately 26 million tons of waste for disposal to landfills or incinerators. The good news is the amount of materials diverted, using recycling and other diversion methods, increased by about 10% to almost 8.5 million tons during the last decade compared to an increase of 3% for total solid waste. Total current expenditures on solid waste management by local governments in Canada cost us approximately$2.6 billion in 2008. The majority, around $1.1 billion, was related to collection and transportation. Aside from using less, there are a number of reasons to process what we do use in different ways that are more economical and often profitable.

There is room for a lot of improvement in Quebec’s waste management: currently, about half of household waste is eliminated (MDDELCC, 10) which is not economically viable. To reach its sustainability goal, the province drafted the Quebec policy for waste management 2011-2015. By the end date, it aims to reduce household waste to 700kg/person and to increase the diversion rate of paper, plastic, glass and metal scraps to 70%, and of organic waste to 60% (MDDELCC, 11). An additional benefit of these propositions is the creation of hundreds of jobs (MDDELCC, 2011). The plan, albeit optimistic, is still unclear about how to effectively implement waste recovery. In 2012, 6 years after the start of the City of Montreal’s composting initiative, only 12% of organic waste was being recovered (Bruemmer, 2014). Montreal plans on building two biomethanization plants (where compost is converted into biogas), along with two composting facilities (Bruemmer, 2014). Four proposed sites have been rejected due to public opposition while an existing one closed this summer. Situated in Montreal’s Southwest borough, the latter estimates that its yearly methane offset equals 800 000m3, “which represents about 35 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is worth nearly 500 000$ in the Quebec cap-and-trade system” (Compost Montreal,

Studies have shown that recycling reduces waste sent to landfills, conserves natural resources, reduces pollution and creates jobs. Many apartment complexes in Fayetteville, Arkansas have started a recycling program to contribute to this sustainable project. However, Garden Park apartments, a 10 acres community located in Fayetteville does not account for a recycling system. Given the situation, a current resident decided to work on a project whose goal is finding a solution to such problem by implementing recycling bins in the locations of the property. In order to accomplish this project, some research and steps must be first completed. This proposal explains in more detail the problem, the solution, and steps involved in the implementation of the recycling program.

All municipalities in Ontario must abide by the regulations and restrictions stated in the Environmental Protection Act of 1990, as outlined in the “How Waste is Regulated” section on the Recycling Council of Ontario’s website. Unfortunately, as outlined on the provincial government’s website under General Waste Management Laws, this act only offers broad and unspecific regulations. As a result, in order to reduce pollution output even further, most local municipalities decide to establish their own waste management strategies. Municipalities are becoming more cognisant about the importance of environmental sustainability. Implementing region-specific bylaws that pose limits to the amount of waste that can be output is a good way to further ensure the preservation of the environment.

Second of all, recycling plastic bags is a huge issue. Customers don’t take out the initiative to recycle plastic bags. Only about one-third of Quebecers recycle plastic bags. Canadians use a huge amount of plastic bags, yet 50% of them are used once then thrown away. If plastic bags were banned, 100% of bags would be reused. Educating the citizens of Canada about recycling plastic bags is inoperative because recycling plastic bags does nothing to help the environment. This is because the market price for recycled bags in Canada is $55 per tonne. The energy and funds required to collect and process plastic bags far exceed the $55 market price after recycling. More resources would be used to recycle plastic bags; making recycled plastic bags more inadequate for the environment.Therefore, using reusable bags is more environmentally friendly.

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

As we all know recycling is the main key to preservation to sustainability; but most of us need to be reminded in how it play the biggest role in our environment. “Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into reusable objects to prevent waste of potential useful materials (Morris, 2013)”.

Recycling has become well known for its ability to help save the environment, which include areas like energy conservation, resource conservation, reduction in air and water pollution, and reduction in greenhouse gas generation. Recycling has also become an important segment when it comes to the state and national economy. Recycling creates local and state jobs and helps generate revenue.

Over the past decade, concern about the environment has brought with it a massive increase in recycling in Australia and around the world. Recycling has become all the time more important part of our modern culture. Recycling is not a new concept. The practice of recycling has been around for thousands of years. The history of recycling started during the times of industrialization.During the time of production, massive waste materials come out. It will create the heavy loss. So from that time they think of reusing the waste products and recycling came to the practice.