Recycling In America

Everyone knows that recycling will eventually make the world a better place, so citizens in the United States try to use this to their advantage to create a better tomorrow for our world. Although, when one repurposes these materials, they do not take a moment to think about how those recycled items are then repurposed and reused by manufacturers and companies to make things we use and purchase, thus contributing to our economy, how many items end up buried in landfills, and if recycling cohorts and generally everyone on earth is contributing enough so that we can make the world a better place by solving some of its biggest predicaments. These aspects of recycling no one dares to think about, but if one stops and takes a break from their own …show more content…
For example, when the recycling levels reach about seventy-five percent of the country’s population, it is predicted to create about 1.5 million new jobs in the U.S. as a result of recycling, composting and reusing. Additionally, recycling properly creates valuable resources for U.S. manufacturing and can become a highly valuable export to countries such as China and India, which can steer our economy into a salvational state. The United States’ economy has been very much changed after the past decades. The weak money-based recovery since the great recession has been seen as a lack of labor market energy and depressed levels of investment. The gargantuan expansion of government's size and range, increased legal/law-based and money paid in taxes, and the loss of confidence that has went …show more content…
According to recent studies done around the country, the U.S. recycles less than twenty-two percent of its discarded materials, and these have not improved in twenty years despite the billions of dollars spent on recycling competitions, symposiums, awareness campaigns and new sorting technologies. Many people do not realize that in order to have the obligation to earn redemption from our past years of polluting and killing the earth, they have to use these words of encouragement from environmentalists and socialists everywhere as encouragement to veer our society into the right direction. Unfortunately, many occupants in the U.S., according these statistics, are seeing these recycling epidemics as inopportune moments that will not make a difference. “One fact remains - if the public is confused when they approach the recycling bin, they will continue to: make mistakes, be apathetic and be skeptical about recycling - and therefore, contamination levels will continue to be high, recycling will continue to be economically crippled, recycling levels will not increase and environmental progress will be stalled. Read industry leader