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