Question

What is recycling of waste? Explain with one example. State two advantages of recycling?

Answer 1

Recycling is a process to change waste materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from land filling) by reducing the need for 'conventional' waste disposal and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to plastic production.
Plastic recycling : Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles and then casting them as plastic chairs and tables.
The two advantages of recycling are :

1. Eliminates Landfill Waste : Not only are landfills total eyesores-they smell. Really bad. It sucks for communities having to live in the vicinity of one of these mountains of trash-it just keeps growing and growing and oozing out odors and potentially hazardous waste. People are no longer okay with putting trash in a hole in the ground. They want to see that all food is used for compost, cans are used to make more cans.
   
2. Benefits the Environment : Some of the benefits of recycling to environment are :
   

• Recycling reduces pollution because trash isn't being burned and manufacturers can reuse materials instead of creating new ones which is more energy efficient.
• Recycling hazardous waste prevents it from going into the landfill where it seeps into the ground an damages the local ecosystem and water supply.