Recycling By: Justin Andersen
Picture how much reusable trash America wastes
a year, plenty of that trash ends up in a landfill, but a tiny
amount of that is recycled. A majority of the world knows
the some benefits of recycling, except there are a few we never thought of. Also on the other hand there are multiple negatives to recycling to. So in the end the real question is, are the negatives out weighing the positives.
The Benefits
Recycling has many benefits such as it saves natural resources, energy, labor costs, while reducing pollution, and conserving landfill storage. Curbside recycling programs produce less pollution and less water than making new products from virgin materials. Also when president Clinton was president he ordered that at least twenty percent of the paper used by federal agencies, had to be recycled. I feel that recycling all that paper had to have saved a lot of wood. The EPA suggested all states had to recycle twentyfive percent of recyclable material; except some states such as Rhode Island said that seventy percent of recyclable material had to be recycled. In the 1980s the alarm over preserved waste disposal " triggered." recycling one ton of material saves at least one hundred and eighty seven dollars worth of electricity. I feel that if all recyclable material was recycled then we would save a lot of money and save the environment. For