The Benefits of Recycling

THE BENEFITS OF RECYCLING Recycling is one of an important thing to save our life. Recycling means reducing the demands for waste treatment capacity and reducing waste streams. The consumption of non-renewable resources will increase if the less obvious recycling increased. The objectives of recycling are to minimize the resources utilization and emissions of all streams of materials in the production cycle. All the people in the earth should make recycling as their routine in their daily because there are many benefits of recycling (Virtanen & Nilsson,1993).The benefits of recycling are recycling can conserves natural resources, recycling can protect the environment and recycling also has economic benefits. Firstly, recycling can conserves natural resources (V. Reinfeld, 1992). A lot of natural resources can be conserves by recycling such as tree, metal, oil, natural gas and many others. For example, recycling one ton of newspaper saves 17 small trees, and paper manufacturer from secondary fibres uses 60 per cent less water and energy than comparable virgin paper. Conserving renewable resources through recycling also helps preserve undisturbed land and natural diversity by reducing the amount land needed for agriculture and timber production. By making products with recycled material slows the depletion of non-renewable resources such as metal, oil, and natural gas, reduces the encroachment of new mining and drilling operations (RMT University, 2005). Secondly, recycling can protect the environment because by reducing the amount of waste needing disposal, recycling saves land and reduces the potential for air and water pollution (V. Reinfeld, 1992).300 million rolls of tax paper we use each year is enough to go from the earth to the moon 26 times (Mohammad Shahidul Islam, 2011).We can recycle almost everything we use. It is better to buy recyclable items so that they can be recycled and new material can be manufactured out of the scrap. If everybody