Recycling

Recycling and its Advantages

Reprocessing of old materials into new products with objectives of prevention of waste materials, reduction of consumption of fresh materials, plummeting energy usage and lowering down the greenhouse emissions is called Recycling. It is not a new concept rather history tells that people in the age of Plato were familiar to recycle things for their economical and environmental benefits. During the Second World War the government had practiced the process many countries involving in war, even the post war era had the magnificent example of recycling process.

Many debates around the globe has been occurred to advocate the benefits of this process yet countering, advocates of recycling a large number of critics also came on the screen negating the benefits gained by recycling. One such opponent is John Tierney who in an article in New York Times claimed that New York recycling program would cost $3000 per tons of recycled materials if public waste to spend their time by recycling things. It has also been argued by opponents that recycling is not an economical process as the cost on recycling of some goods can outweigh its environmental benefits.

Recyclables can be instigated from homes, offices, industry and factories, familiar and common recyclables are glass, paper, aluminum, metals, textiles and plastics. The cost consumed in the process of converting used materials into first hand products must need to be considered as compare to the cost taken by the manufacturing of new products.

Concrete collected through demolition of buildings can be recycled into the production of new projects and saves the need of crushing stones into concrete. Batteries can also be recycled though their recycling demands high measures as they are made of harmful material cadmium and mercury but the batteries used in automotive mobiles can easy recycle. Compositing, a process of breaking aerobic bacteria into fertile topsoil, of many household materials is done which helps you to make the environment clean in an economical budget. Iron and steel are famous reprocessing materials as both are recycled in the top quality new products, on the other hand aluminum is also reprocessed to make new products and interestingly it saves a large amount of energy spend on the processing of new aluminum products. Glass recycling is another tremendous use of manufacturing glass products free from contaminates, paper recycling is well known yet it need not to forget that every time paper is recycled its quality lower down, the papers having the coatings of aluminum foil are not recycled easily, beside that the paper used for wrapping gifts can not be recycled due to its already cheaper quality.

Unlike steel and aluminum, plastic recycling poses unique challenges because plastic can not be sorted out using magnetic technique, then cork and caps of plastic made materials also have not the ability of recycling yet numerous products have been manufactured and are manufacturing using the recycled plastic. Textile recycling has its own gains though it is not an economical recycling but many organizations are encouraging this recycling as it provides clothing to the needy, recycled textile goods are sent to third world countries as a charity as well.

The question arises that how can one know what thing needs to be recycled and what not? Even it is quite surprising that many people still do not think it a productive idea and are ignorant of the fact that by recycling only a single plastic bottle one can not only save the environment from the in the production of new plastic bottles but also can save the amount of oil used for the production of new bottle as well. Surprisingly 60% of the rubbish you throw in the Use Me bins can be recycled. One year of recycling can save many trees, metals and papers in a more economical and user friendly environmental way.