Does Recycling Truly Make a Difference?
So many pieces of life pass by each day that people believe they know everything about, but actually do not. Recycling, a word that almost everyone world wide is familiar with; recycling carries a positive image however, how much do we actually know about recycling. Most are informed enough to know that recycling is the idea of taking old, second-hand products and breaking them down to produce new products, but exactly how effective is it? Recycling should be practiced and encouraged by everyone because of its ability to better the environment now as well as in the future. I believe that the benefits far outweigh the negative effects of recycling and our planet earth.
In some way, shape or form, any common …show more content…
Landfills are filling up more rapidly, and more space for our “garbage” is needed. Many of what people today consider garbage could be recycled. Any kind of plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, and even some types of metals (most common aluminum cans) can be recycled, and are commonly found in landfills across the world. In a study made by Elizah Leigh, she states “Here’s what happens to our trash when it’s not recycled. The majority of our municipal solid waste is buried in landfills, or – as the case was in 2010 – 29 million tons is incinerated by one of the Untied States’ 87 waste-to-energy facilities” (Leigh). Recycling decreases the amount of waste put into landfills, and that improves the environment by allowing people to manage the amount of land we overfill with junk. Almost all items that have the ability to be recycled do not decompose easily, which explains why they add an abundance to landfills; they do not ever deteriorate or decay. It should be a priority to conserve and protect the environment because once it is damaged, it possibly could never be restored. It is much easier to plan well for our future than to react to poor planning in our …show more content…
Write John Tierney wrote in the New York Times, “Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it’s still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill,” and “When it comes to the bottom line, both economically and environmentally, not much has changed at all.” (Loki). As said earlier, almost all recycling centers are nonprofit, mainly because all funds are put toward the recycling process of making new out of the old. Recycling is not cheap, but since when is anything that betters our environment? It is more cost efficient to dump all waste into a landfill or even to burn it instead of spending time on tedious recycling. Short term, it sounds like the all around more efficient route to take, but long term, it increases pollution and speeds the process of global
So many pieces of life pass by each day that people believe they know everything about, but actually do not. Recycling, a word that almost everyone world wide is familiar with; recycling carries a positive image however, how much do we actually know about recycling. Most are informed enough to know that recycling is the idea of taking old, second-hand products and breaking them down to produce new products, but exactly how effective is it? Recycling should be practiced and encouraged by everyone because of its ability to better the environment now as well as in the future. I believe that the benefits far outweigh the negative effects of recycling and our planet earth.
In some way, shape or form, any common …show more content…
Landfills are filling up more rapidly, and more space for our “garbage” is needed. Many of what people today consider garbage could be recycled. Any kind of plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, and even some types of metals (most common aluminum cans) can be recycled, and are commonly found in landfills across the world. In a study made by Elizah Leigh, she states “Here’s what happens to our trash when it’s not recycled. The majority of our municipal solid waste is buried in landfills, or – as the case was in 2010 – 29 million tons is incinerated by one of the Untied States’ 87 waste-to-energy facilities” (Leigh). Recycling decreases the amount of waste put into landfills, and that improves the environment by allowing people to manage the amount of land we overfill with junk. Almost all items that have the ability to be recycled do not decompose easily, which explains why they add an abundance to landfills; they do not ever deteriorate or decay. It should be a priority to conserve and protect the environment because once it is damaged, it possibly could never be restored. It is much easier to plan well for our future than to react to poor planning in our …show more content…
Write John Tierney wrote in the New York Times, “Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it’s still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill,” and “When it comes to the bottom line, both economically and environmentally, not much has changed at all.” (Loki). As said earlier, almost all recycling centers are nonprofit, mainly because all funds are put toward the recycling process of making new out of the old. Recycling is not cheap, but since when is anything that betters our environment? It is more cost efficient to dump all waste into a landfill or even to burn it instead of spending time on tedious recycling. Short term, it sounds like the all around more efficient route to take, but long term, it increases pollution and speeds the process of global