Recycle

What is the importance of recycling?

While recycling become part of daily routine for many people, the full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the drain on 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 of the great things about recycling is that process helps to minimize 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 homes or offices, 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 reused 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. 

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by: Sara Aljahdali