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Recycling
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Should recycling be encouraged? …
1. Recycling reduces consumption of energy.
Transporting raw
materials and processing
them require a significant amount of
energy.
For instance,
recycling paper
consumes less energy than processing
trees. The same thing is true when it comes
to recycling or re-purposing wood.
2. It reduces air and water pollution. A major
source of pollution
today is industrial waste
that comes from factories producing plastics
and cans. If both products are reused,
instead of manufactured from scratch,
pollution can be reduced significantly.
3. Recycling could mitigate global warming.
A large proportion of our waste is burned,
which contributes to global warming. By
minimizing
our waste, recycling could go a
long way in helping us prevent global
warming from worsening.
4. Recycling decreases the amount of waste in
landfills. It enormously reduces the
possibility of landfill sites overflowing, which
contributes mightily to environmental
degradation and
causes land and water
pollution.
5. It raises environmental awareness. When
everyone becomes accustomed to
recycling, people will be more eco-
conscious and would participate more in
eco-friendly activities.
6. Recycling can help you save money.
There
are companies that pay cash for
your trash,
like old water bottles, electronics
and other things.
7. It can minimize logging.
YES
1. Recycling results in more pollution and
energy consumption. Recycling tons of
garbage will require waste to be
transported, sorted, cleaned and processed
in
separate factories, all of which need
energy.
2. Recycling will produce pollutants, including
toxic chemicals after breaking down the
waste materials. This can hurt the
environment further if not planned well.
3. Recycling is not always cost-effective.
Recycling costs can go thrice
as high as
the cost of putting garbage in landfills. The
process is also labor intensive and the
manpower requirement is high.
4. The jobs created by recycling include
sorting garbage, cleaning toxins and doing
other manual and back-breaking labor,
which can result in low
income and poor
quality of life in the community.
5. Recycling does not guarantee quality
products.
6. Recycling can be harmful for us. For
instance, bleaching is required to recycle
paper, which involves a harsh chemical that
is harmful to our health.
7. Recycling can give
people a false sense of
security. People might not realize that the
only real benefit of recycling is reducing the
damage from human folly.
8. Recycling sites are always unhygienic,
unsafe and unsightly.
