WHY?

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Why do we recycle? Good question.

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Recycling is essential for several key reasons:

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1. Environmental Protection: Recycling helps reduce the need for raw materials, conserving natural resources like timber, minerals, and water. This minimises habitat destruction, pollution, and the energy required to extract and process these materials.

2. Waste Reduction: By diverting materials from landfills, recycling decreases the volume of waste that ends up in landfills, which overflow and lead to harmful emissions, from pollutants in the air when material is burned to toxicity of the ground and groundwater from harmful leaching.

3. Energy Savings: Recycling often uses less energy compared to producing new products from raw materials. For example, recycling aluminum saves up to 95% of the energy required to make it from bauxite ore.

4. Economic Benefits: Recycling creates jobs in collection, sorting, processing, and selling recycled materials. It also supports the development of a circular economy where materials are reused rather than discarded.

5. Climate Change Mitigation: By lowering greenhouse gas emissions associated with manufacturing and waste disposal, recycling helps combat climate change and its impacts.

 

In essence, recycling is a crucial practice for preserving the environment, conserving resources, and supporting sustainable economic growth.

 

 

WE NEED YOU, AND YOU NEED US!

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