Why is recycling important?
It is the separation, collection, remanufacturing, or conversion of discarded or waste resources into new materials.
It helps to extend the life and usefulness of something that has previously served its function by reducing it to its basic ingredients and then utilizing those materials to create something usable. It is one of the three golden commandments of sustainability (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) and provides several advantages for both humans and the environment.
Importance of recycling
The world's natural resources are limited, and some are scarce. Recycling paper and wood may conserve trees and forests, recycling plastic means less new plastic, recycling metals means less mining, and recycling glass means less reliance on new raw resources like sand. Of fact, the reality is far more complicated, but the basic concept remains relevant.
1: It decreases the demand for fresh raw materials to be grown, harvested, or extracted from the Earth. This, in turn, decreases the negative disturbance and damage to the natural environment, which means fewer trees are chopped down, rivers are diverted, wild creatures are hurt or relocated and pollution is reduced.
2: It's also preferable to recycle old items than to devastate someone else's town or land in quest of fresh raw materials. Due to the obviously increased demand for new commodities, more of the poorest and most vulnerable individuals have been uprooted or otherwise exploited.
3: Manufacturing things out of recycled materials often consumes less energy than making them out of fresh raw materials, sometimes by a significant amount. Creating new metal from existing items, for example, requires 95% less energy than making it from scratch. While this is not always the case, making something a second time generally requires significantly less energy.
4: Since recycling requires less energy to source and process fresh raw materials, it results in decreased carbon emissions, which can assist with global warming. It also keeps possibly methane-emitting waste away from landfills. Overall, limiting the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere is critical to halting climate change.
5: This is also economically sound. Recycling may help the economy in a variety of ways. Recycling waste is six times less expensive to dispose of than normal waste. Recycling food waste and green waste is also a good idea, since it typically results in a lot of beneficial compost.
Conclusion
Recycling is much more than just decreasing waste sent to landfills; it has a longer range of benefits that aren't restricted to the environment - there are economic and social benefits as well.
If our civilization is to actually achieve any sort of sustainability, recycling must play a central role. Even though we live in a consumer-driven world with an ever-increasing demand for new goods, if we begin to look at the waste produced by this level of consumption in a different way, we may be able to transform our issue into an opportunity.
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