Why Recycle?
A post for 
Blog Action Day on the Environment.
1. Conserve Resources
- Recycling helps reduce the consumption of natural resources, such as trees used to make paper, fossil fuels used to make plastics, and metals extracted through strip mining.
- Producing aluminum from scrap instead of bauxite cuts energy use and air pollution by 95%
- Making paper from discards instead of trees not only saves forests, it reduces the energy used by up to three quarters and requires less than half as much water.
2. Reduce Waste
- Precious landfill space is conserved when you recycle; waste from houses and apartments can be diverted from the landfill through recycling programs.
- With bottle return programs you can recycle aluminum, glass, poly-coated and plastic beverage containers.
3. Create Jobs
In this region, there are a number of companies that are directly involved in processing recycled materials or in making new products containing recycled material. For example:
- Making new newsprint from old newsprint and magazines.
- Making cellulose insulation from newsprint and other mixed paper.
- Making building and asphalt shingles from mixed paper, cardboard and boxboard (e.g. cereal boxes, shoe boxes).
- Making rebar and other steel products from metal cans.
- The City’s Materials Recovery Facility has a staff of 36 to sort and market recyclables.
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It might be a bit more expensive in the first place, but it will pay out much more on the long term. Its only the inner temptation keeping us from doing it. But when you are used to do it, its no problem anymore.