10 Smart Reasons for Everyone to Recycle
It Makes For A Nice Economy
According to estimates, every American produces an average of 7.5 pounds of trash on a daily basis. This number may seem small but when you add it up, that waste will amount to a ton of trash a year! Now, multiply that with the US population and you will quickly realize why everyone needs to recycle our wastes in case we find ourselves on a sinking boat of trash. With that being said, here are 9 more reasons to recycle now.
It Creates Jobs
Recycling makes nice economic sense in plenty of ways. Plenty of states profit from recycling revenues, often amounting in the billions of dollars, which can then be poured in to making the economy stronger. It doesn’t hurt either that our country exports its recycled products to other nations. Also, plenty of companies rely on recycled materials to produce new products.
The recycling industry is on a roll. As such, it requires manpower. That means more jobs even in these recessionary times. In fact, the industry earns over $236 billions annually, employs over 1 million workers and continues to do so.
It Reduces Waste
This is a no-brainer as recycling is intended to diminish the wastes in our landfills. And you ought to know by now of the negative impact of landfills on the environment in the form of toxic leaks in to the soil, which breeds a host of other societal problems.
It Is Eco-Friendly
Another no-brainer. Recycling does utilize fewer natural resources and needs less energy, not to mention diminishing the burden on landfills and other trash areas of the nation.
It Saves Energy
In lieu of using virgin materials that need greater energy expenditures to transform in to their final forms, recycling older materials utilize only about half of the energy. Take the case of recycling aluminum, which saves on 90 percent of costs necessary to make aluminum from scratch.
It Diminishes the Burden on the Land
An example, a company that contacted local contractors to use their stockpiled mountains of glass to use as substitutes for sand and gravel in building roads and highways. You can imagine the space that stockpile would have taken in the landfills.
It Lessens Global Warming
Every material that we recycle means fewer amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted in to the air, thus, lessening the effects of global warming.
It Reduces Water Pollution
There are plenty of ways with which this is possible; transforming recycled materials into new products often requires less water, toxic leaks from landfills are diminished with fewer trash in them and they all finish up with healthier, cleaner and clearer water.
It Protects The Wildlife
Because there is a smaller need to harvest the forests of its riches – trees, that is – the habitats of plenty of wild animals are spared. As such, they are protecting the wildlife.
It Creates New Demand for Recycled Products
Keep in mind that every small paper, tin can and other junk that you recycle benefits not you and your immediate surroundings but the national economy and international community as well.
Thanks to the ripple effect, the method of making and buying recycled products generates a new demand for them and the cycle of recycling starts again and again to the benefit of society and of the environment.
