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The Benefits and Reasons of Recycling The Benefits and Reaso ns o f Recycling 0 co mments
Recycling is a series of activities or process that goes on to include collection of waste materials, sorting of those materials and then processing them to create brand new products. T he newly manuf actured products are then purchased by consumers. In this age of growing environmental concerns, people have understood the various recycling benef its and thus, more recycling plants have been set up throughout the world. T here are various reasons and benef its of recycling, the primary one among which is environmental – creating an eco f riendly surrounding. It is an ef f icient way of managing and reducing waste without causing much damage to the environment. T he multiple recycling benef its and their reasons have been discussed below. Managing Garbage T he primary aim of recycling is to manage the amount of waste and garbage, both industrial and domestic that is being sent to the landf ills. Many of these waste products are toxic and detrimental to the environmental. Most of these are industrial wastes and these have to be recycled by industrial recycling equipments. T hese waste products have to be taken to the nearest recycling plant f or processing. Checking Pollution Of tentimes the toxic released f rom the waste products in the landf ills seep down to the groundwater level, which severely af f ect terrestrial lif e – plants, animals, humans alike. A toxic soup called Leachate is produced when the chemicals get blended with the garbage. Immediate recycling of wastes checks this problem and thus, plays an active role in checking land and water pollution. Saving Energy Another major reason and benef it of recycling good is saving energy. Although, industrial recycling equipments do consume energy but it is much less when compared to the energy consumed upon manuf acturing new products. Some products when recycled prove to be energy ef f icient. Hence, many industries pref er to go f or recycling than creating new products. Some products that are often recycled are: •
Steel
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Paper
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Aluminum cans
Saving Natural Resources Manuf acturing new products lead to depletion of a huge amount of natural resources. During the process of manuf acturing, a lot of trees, f ossil f uels, natural oil and natural gas get consumed. Since, most of these are non-renewable sources of energy, people these days pref er recycling of used and discarded products than manuf acturing new ones as these save the natural resources to a large extent. Economic Reasons T here are various monetary and economic reasons of recycling. T here are various companies that buy used products, recycle them and then sell the newly manuf actured goods. For them, the only source of