ESSAY:ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF RECYCLING

For most of us, recycling has become a way of life at home and at the office, and increasingly we expect that our industries will recycletheir waste when possible as well. Recycling has been a key part of thegreen revolution and has greatly extended the amount of resources that our planet has available. However, some people wonder if there is a downside to recycling as well. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of recycling.Recycling helps reduce carbon/greenhouse gas emissions, helping in the fight against climate change. Recycling limits the total demand for new raw materials, meaning we destroy fewer forestsfor paper and less land for mining other materials. When materials are recycled they are diverted away from landfills. The total energy cost of recycling is less than that of landfilling,plus making new products from virgin materials. The result is that recycling reduces our energy uses, moving us closer to an energy independent future. Recycling has spurred scientific advancements as well as increased environmental awareness both among citizens and in industry. Those are some of the advantages of recycling such a important thing nowadays.

Even the importance there are some disadvantages .Recycling also requires resources. Special factories must be established to recycle materials in any given area, and bins must be created and distributed to collect recyclables. While recycling does help us manage our resources better and ultimately save energy, it is not without its own small cost in materials and energy. Recyclables must be transported. This means that some amount of fossilfuels are consumed to take recyclables to the recycling facility. When recyclables are pre-sorted at the point of collection they typically take up more space in .

Some recycling processes create hazardous chemicals. Like any industrial process, breaking down and re-creating materials like plastics or metals creates gas and liquid by-products that must be managed properly.

Some types of recycling are not cost-effective, and have historically required subsidies to operate effectively.

However, all in all, the advantages of recycling outweigh the disadvantages in most circumstances. At EnviroSolutions, Inc. we’reproud to lead the way in ever more effective recycling services. For example, our single-stream recycling program means consumers don’t have to separate their recyclables and reduces the transportation and energy costs involved in recycling. We also focus on highly efficient recycling processes that reduce theamount of resources recycling takes while also reducing the recycling costsfor all parties involved.