Recycle: Trash Talk
You ever stop and wonder where does all the trash you throw away go? From you dumpster to the huge garbage truck that struggles through the inner city until it gets to a holding place or a near by landfill.
There is a lot that goes into the disposal of trash from the gas used to keep garbage trucks running to the hours of labor to pick up the trash from each household.
Did you know?
Well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, landfilling, and incineration.
Recycling needs to become part of ALL our daily routines. The full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the use of limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important. Here are a few other reasons why recycling is extremely important to our world today.
One really good thing about recycling is that it minimizes the presence of waste materials in our communities. Because items such as glass, paper, and plastics are being reused to create new products, they do not end up taking up space in a landfill somewhere. Since most people are not interested in having a garbage dump located near their home or office, recycling makes it possible to avoid creating newer and larger landfills that would otherwise be necessary to accommodate all the waste.
While many people realize that recycling is good for the environment in terms of easing the demand on our limited resources, they may not realize that choosing to reuse and recycle items also makes it possible to cut the cost of producing products significantly. For example, it takes anywhere from seventy-five to ninety-five percent less energy to produce aluminum cans from recycled products than it does to create them from raw materials. Thus, the importance of recycling not only extends to preserving raw materials but also to easing the energy needed to manufacture various goods.
RECYCLE, REUSE & REDUCE!