Recycling, Reducing, and Reusing Paper
Tyree Jones
Argosy University June 23,2016
Mrs. Crystall Gomillion
Introduction
This paper is about the recycling, reducing, and reusing of the waste material. Recycling is simply taking something that has been used and processing it into new products or simply using them at their current state. The main purpose of recycling is to save on resources and money as well. For instance, paper can be recycled into tissue paper or Manila paper and the same can save more cutting of trees in the environment. Some of the things that can be reused include used alcoholic and soda bottles, sawdust, and animal waste. In this paper, discussions have been divided into three parts in which I am going to report and analyze the recycling that was
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This was a good step because all the collection would be regarded a waste in the dumpsite suppose it found its way there. Preventing garbage from going into a landfill and putting it into proper use is the most ideal thing that a community can ever do. This is because apart from saving on resources, recycling ensures that pollution is minimized through minimal dumping. In my community, North Carolina, the entire population adds up to 9,535,483 people. This means that if everyone in my community embarks on recycling trash, a lot of garbage would be reused and this will prevent further pollution of the environment. In estimation, about 30 sacks of garbage were recycled in the one week that I undertook the exercise. This means that if everyone joins hands in reusing garbage in my community, the recycled garbage would translate to 30* 9,535,483= 286064490 sacks of garbage in a week. If we look at the amount of trash that my community could save in a year; 286064490*52= 1.48753534E10 sacks (Gibbons
In conclusion to this investigation one thing is clear and that is that recycling reeks benefits to the environment, Recycling material when compared to making material from raw material is a more efficient energy saving and more environmentally friendly way to reuse material that is usually consider as trash such as empty glass, and plastic bottles, or old newspapers. Recycling helps reduce the possible carbon emissions greatly and does reduce the human carbon footprint. But Recycling doesn’t resolve the pollution that is around the world today. Leading to new questions, questions like what about the landfills are they sustainable, and if so for how long. How long until the air becomes unbreathable? How long until Earth becomes its own furnace?
A very important issue tied to Canada’s future sustainability is that of recycling. There is currently a shortage of suitable landfill spaces in Canada, and the current landfills produce harmful emissions (Statistics Canada, 2008). Using methods to divert as many of these wastes away from landfills will help to slow their growth and improve Canada’s future outlook. Recycling is one such method.
There are many benefits to recycling, but a lot of people will argue against it. As Bauer, Mary states, “[Recycling] is a messy process that uses caustic chemicals and produces harmful byproducts and emissions” (12). Regardless, recycling programs have been implemented in many places, such as California and Georgia, and have been successful. Hence, individual’s states in the United States should make recycling mandatory because recycling will reduce E-Waste pollution, reduce waste, and benefit the economy. According to Thomas, Valerie.
In the late 1990’s people consume large amount of products that at that time the average usage waste of the product s is approximately 200 pounds of wastes per day from each person in the united states ( Biswas et al., 2000). Year after another the wastes kept growing until they developed recycling industry to solve the problem. In addition, Biswas et al. (2000) also mentioned that when the recycling industry has developed, Pieters and Clooegues were thinking of a way to motivate the people to recycle.
Reduce, recycle and recycle could be a construct that individuals area unit beginning to perceive and to use to each life round the world (GOV.UK, 2013). This knowledge base essay can explore info concerning use by totally different resources that are provided to use such as the web, books, journals and alternative resources that needs to offer American state info on use. This essay can discover use as business, environmental and policy perspective. Use is that the methodology by that we tend to recover valuable resources to be re-used once more and once more. However just one a part of healing the atmosphere, it's a sensible action that people altogether businesses participate in daily routines on recycling (Reclaim, 2013). While recycling is only one part to healing the environment it is a practical action that individuals in all businesses and people take part in every day.
Recycling was never really a big impact for people, in fact even when the percentage of people using it increases greatly throughout the years 1990 following up to present time only rose up to the 30s. Out of the 100 percentage of total population, only 30 percent practice some sort of recycling; not even half of the population (Evans). If
If everyone recycled think of how much more space there would be in landfills across the world. There is only so much room on this earth and we are using a huge portion of it for our trash. Clearlake, California alone on a busy day can bring in 80,000 pounds of trash to the local dump. I know this because I work at the local dump in Mckinleyville. I also see a lot of people that throw away their recycling for the simple reason of being too lazy to sort it. I watch bag after of bag of plastic, aluminum, and glass get thrown into the bin which we haul straight to a landfill in Anderson, California. If everyone in Mckinleyville recycled there plastic, aluminum and glass they could save thousands of pounds a day from going to the landfill. I think people are not informed that waste is a big problem in this world. But in fact conservation is an issue, and resources and energy aren't too plentiful. Someday these resources are going to run out. But the more we recycle the longer we can make these resources last.
Some people say recycling is a waste of time. If one is a very busy person, then maybe. But taking that extra two seconds to recycle, saving energy, money, resources, and the world isn’t a bad plan either. If everyone would take the extra two seconds to recycle, the extra effort would help to make the world would be a much cleaner and more efficient place. Recycling could also help to lower taxes in the long run. Recycled materials have value, and trash costs money. A city recycling program could sell it and make money. Then, with the extra money, the city wouldn’t have to charge as much money on taxes. Now how does those two extra seconds sound now? One can better the place they live in and save some money by taking two extra seconds to recycle.
Our world is getting to the point to where we will be surrounded by trash. There are hazards happening because of the excess trash, which could have been recycled. Although the government is not doing their best to make these hazards stop, surprisingly it is the non-governed organizations that are trying to make the difference. Proven studies and facts have been made about these issues, so people should take this into consideration and start recycling more. Recycling is a beneficial process that is not required globally like it should be because citizens are uneducated on the process and what it can do. People who are not recycling do not know the hazards they are causing everywhere.
If we all do our part and recycle and watch what we throw out it will make it easy for the trash companies to see what goes where and recycling certian materials is better than making something all over again. For example, aluminum can be used again instead of making a new one from scratch. We should all watch what we throw out I mean who doesn't want to make Earth cleaner.
A. Recycling is the recovery of useful materials such as paper, glass, plastic and metals from the municipal solid waste stream to use to make new products, reducing the amount of virgin raw materials needed. (http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal - I plan to cite on PP)
Most importantly, it saves lives. We should all learn the importance of recycling. For example, some sea lions won?t get stuck in plastics if we recycle. We would also breathe better air. We can recycle and aluminum can and put it back on the shelf for something useful. If we just leave it in the landfill, it?ll decompose and it?ll be of no use. It?ll also reduce pollution or else it?ll make a new one.
Recycling is of great importance, and its importance is economic and environmental. It preserves natural resources, reduces depletion, reduces the amount of waste, reduces its growth, conserves the environment, cleanses it of some harmful waste, reduces unemployment and creates opportunities. New work.
There are also several long term benefits of recycling. For example, “collecting and processing secondary materials, manufacturing recy...
Recycling is such a fantastic way for us to reuse the waste we once throw. Yet, not everything is easy to be done in this world. There many difficulties that face recycling process economically and socially. Usually In order to recycle, waste paper needs to be sorted and treated from any Impurities. Which means that companies will loss finance because there must be someone or something that could sort or treat these papers. Another problem is that to start recycling, companies needs a lot of good recyclable supply to pick it up; after all, they need good economic benefits (Problems with Recycling, 2014). According to the Waste and Resources Action Program, there are some barriers p...