Category: Recycling

The collection and conversion process of waste materials into usable and new materials is called Recycling. It is one of the eco-friendly methods of solid waste management for a sustainable society instead of letting it go to landfills. Current disposal methods threaten our environment and health, but with sustainable recycling, we conserve natural resources and decrease the harm we cause to the world. Recycling non-renewable materials reduce environmental pollution and protect natural ecosystems. Nevertheless, we have to remember that not every recycling operation is sustainable and beneficial for our environment.

More and more people recycle everyday. This helps to reduce the need for landfill and more costly forms of disposal. Recycling also reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials all of which create substantial air and water pollution. This helps to save energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping to tackle climate change.

Recycling reduces the need to grow, harvest or extract new raw materials from the Earth. That in turn lessens the harmful disruption and damage being done to the natural world: fewer forests cut down, rivers diverted, wild animals harmed or displaced, and less pollution of water, soil and air.