Did you know that in the U.S. alone, industries move, mine, extract, shovel, burns,wastes, pumps, and disposes of 4 million pounds of materials every year? Most waste products make it way into landfills. Landfills are places to dispose of waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land. In those landfills it takes Aluminum cans 80-200 years, plastics 10-1000 years, glass millions of years and paper 2-6 weeks to decompose. However, many people will argue that recycling can become inconvenient and time-consuming and that they don’t have enough space at home. Even when the benefits outway the negatives.Recycling can benefit future generations, animals whose homes are being destroyed, by reducing the use of limited natural resources, the environment, and limit the overflowing of landfills. Recycling saves resources, reduces the amount of garbage, and is cost effective. Thus I …show more content…
According to an article from Stanford University by Ashley Michael's, she believes that “with a well-designed program and the right technology, recycling can be more effective in terms of energy, money, and natural resources compared to manufacturing everything from virgin materials that sends it all to landfills when consumers discarded”. Reusing Recycled products create more jobs and make production cost go down, as well as making people become more aware of what they buy, use, and makes them more responsible. By having people become more responsible by having them recycle, they are less likely to use products that have been produced from virgin materials. Meaning that the cost of products will go down because people won’t have to harvest the natural resources, and export it to business instead of by using products that were already made and broken back down to be reused it will cause the cost to go down as well as create local