Introduction Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials‚ reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials‚ reduce energyusage‚ reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution from landfilling by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal‚ and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass‚ paper‚ metal‚ plastic‚ textiles‚ and others. Nowadays
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lazy Americans do‚ recycling those items can be very beneficial. What everyone knows but refuses to address is that recycling is a healthy habit‚ not just for us but for the world. One reason that many people don’t recycle is because their neighborhoods don’t offer it. Many Americans would also rather just throw their recyclable items in the trash because they are too lazy to take it to a recycling bin. Recycling can create many jobs and in time improve the economy. Recycling can also save natural
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Research Paper: Should Recycle be mandatory? February 15‚ 2011 Should recycling be mandatory? Is recycling really going green with the environment? Or is recycling just a way to go for green material known as dollars? Recycling is a method in which materials that are not used anymore by people are processed in order to transform them in useful products. In the recent years‚ recycling has caused a lot of controversies whether if it is a good way to go green and help planet’s health or if it
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actual emissions or discharges associated with waste disposal methods and their effects on the environment and health. On the other hand‚ the benefits and disadvantages of recycling are more complex. Development of a recycling program can be expensive‚ and recycling generates pollution. Thus‚ several questions arise: Is recycling really well for the environment? How does it affect the economy? Does it save or cost money? Political decisions are rarely implemented on the basis of original investigations
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Economic Factors of Recycling The environmental factors of recycling are wildly known but little is discussed of the economic factors‚ recycling does provide benefits and adds value to an economy. For example‚ in the United States of America‚ these benefits stem from the jobs‚ products manufactured and sales generated by the recycling industry. National recycling efforts are responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of the US every year. The Economic Factors of Recycling Increased Wages:
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Recycling (outline) Introduction 60 percent of the 200 million tons of garbage that Arabs produce yearly could be recycled. It may seem easy just to throw whatever people have finished using in the trash‚ but our wasteful ways have negative effects on the environment. The solution to this problem is to recycle. It is the best way to protect natural resources and to reduce the costs of processing garbage and of cleaning up. The citizens of the Arab world should start thinking seriously
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The Advantages and Drawbacks of Recycling （Synthesis） Nowadays‚ recycling has become an indispensable part of people’s lives. It is necessary for the industry‚ the society‚ and the environment today. However‚ recycling is not a fad‚ and it has a long history when it can be recorded. Before the days of mass production‚ households recycled their material possessions as a need of economic. Recycling has been one of the growth industries of the 1970s‚ 1980s‚ and 1990s‚ and become one of the best
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Why Should People Recycle? I am not a big “earth person” but I do believe in recycling because I think recycling is a good thing. In fact I think everyone should recycle to make the earth a better place as a whole. A few good reasons why recycling is a good thing‚ the more people recycle‚ the less room is filled in landfills. Also‚ when people recycle they are reusing materials‚ therefore saving resources. If everyone recycled‚ think of how much more space there would be in landfills
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------------------------------------------------- Recycling Benefits the Environment Garbage and Recycling ‚ 2003 Recycling Benefits the Environment Sam Martin asserts in the following viewpoint that recycling is an effective way to reduce waste. Although recycling programs do adversely impact the environment‚ Martin contends that alternatives such as landfills—which can pollute the air and water surrounding them—are much more harmful. According to Martin‚ consumers embrace recycling as a way to help the environment
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Recovery & recycling of PET The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive The European Union‚ with the adoption of its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive‚ 94/62/EC as amended by 2004/12/EC‚ is legislating for more effective recovery of used packaging and for the reduction of the impact of packaging on the environment. a) More effective recovery Recovery of PET packaging falls under the requirements for recovery and is classed together with other plastic materials in the targets laid
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