Nowadays, recycling has become popular topics because basically it impacts our environment in our life. Recently, the improvement system of recycling can solve human’s life environmental problems. There are three main points of how to manage waste or garbage such as reuse, reduce and recycle. According to my proposal before, the definition of recycling is a process of how we can manage our waste or garbage materials to change and become useful and new product materials. “Recycling is the process by which previously used objects and materials are converted into something else, rather than discarded” (Reno & Alexander, 2012, p.1). Moreover, recycling is a new modern solution to reduce amount number of wasted products that technically we could reuse those useless products or materials. Recycling also helps many people for manage these waste materials and create new valuable materials from those waste materials before. There are many specific reasons that make recycling system is valuable either than not enough spaces for waste or garbage in our place or we do not have an adequate system for recycling. Especially for recycling in Bali, it caused because of tourism in Bali. Bali is a tropical island in Indonesia with population more than three million people (Medina, 2009). Nevertheless, Bali government created “Bali Green and Clean” program which inspired by many visitors who come from other countries to encourage Bali government making this recycling programs (Indonesia Organic, 2010, pp. 1). Moreover, Bali government created a legal law for these programs. Bali government wants to involves the communities manage waste products or materials with craftsmen in Bali so it will become worthy products after they collaborate with each othe...
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In conclusion to this investigation one thing is clear and that is that recycling reeks benefits to the environment, Recycling material when compared to making material from raw material is a more efficient energy saving and more environmentally friendly way to reuse material that is usually consider as trash such as empty glass, and plastic bottles, or old newspapers. Recycling helps reduce the possible carbon emissions greatly and does reduce the human carbon footprint. But Recycling doesn’t resolve the pollution that is around the world today. Leading to new questions, questions like what about the landfills are they sustainable, and if so for how long. How long until the air becomes unbreathable? How long until Earth becomes its own furnace?
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The words ‘Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle’ are what a person chants if someone mentions the word recycling. Nicks J defines recycling as ‘[T]he processing of waste materials in order to make them reusable” (11). Individuals who recycle are not just throwing papers in green bins, or cans in blue; in fact, they are helping the environment more than they can imagine. People who want to preserve and protect their planet take the initiative to recycle waste materials. Rather than throwing away old plastic or glass bottles, aluminum cans, and certain types of paper, one can simply recycle them, and they will go through a cleaning and the remanufacturing process to be remade into a new usable item.
Recycling. What does this word mean to you? Do you recycle? Do you support or oppose the act of it? What is written in the following paragraphs may or may not help you make this one special planet in our solar system we call Earth; the only planet scientists know supports life. Recycling benefits many aspects of life. Recycling benefits the aesthetics of our daily environment, it makes our family and friends safer from sickness, it boosts our economy, and it allows us to make more use of the limited natural nonrenewable resources we have on our earth. Recycling will benefit life by reducing our environmental impact, preventing injury, boosting the economy, and extending the use we can make can make out of our resources.
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Buy Recycled”. EPA.gov. 21 December 2013. EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency. 18 March 2014 http://www.epa.gov/region9/waste/soild/reduce.html.
A. Recycling is the recovery of useful materials such as paper, glass, plastic and metals from the municipal solid waste stream to use to make new products, reducing the amount of virgin raw materials needed. (http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal - I plan to cite on PP)
Have you ever wonder what can you do about the bottles and cans you find around you? People that doesn?t care about the world being clean is littering the place. It makes things very difficult to put up for. Recycling cans and bottles can help save the earth form waste and trash buildup and can make new things. I think that recycling should be mandatory and there should be recycling cans in various locations at school and everywhere else.
In the 1870’s, plastic was discovered in the United States when John Wesley Hyatt was trying to create a different material to make billiard balls (Manrich, 3). Little did he know it would majorly evolve into material we use everyday. However, plastics are now taking over our landfills. The average American throws away one-hundred and eighty-five pounds of plastic a year (Popescu, 121). The answer to decrease this statistic is easy: recycling. I believe that recycling will help eliminate littering and the growth of landfills, while also creating jobs for the unemployed. Not only does recycling plastic help eliminate littering, but also reuses the plastic so there is not a production of additional unneeded plastics. The
made from oil and natural gas. Using plastics to replace packaging materials such as metal
White, P. & Franke, M., 1999: Integrated solid waste management: a lifecycle inventory. Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen.
Waste reduction is the reduction of waste produced. You can do this by doing many different things. For example, using both sides of paper, reducing mail intake and export, and use reusable bags for transporting things. Recycling is a process of changing waste materials into a useable product again to prevent waste. Recycling was big in World War 2 because money was getting dumped into war efforts, the countries tried to reuse products and save money. For example, Great Britain made the Paper Salvage Campaign, which urged citizens to recycle to help the war effort. This idea of recycling was told to the public as an act of patriotism which increased the desire to recycle because they wanted to help and it was easy to do.
Therefore, recycling can protect natural resources, preserve energy and lessen pollution. If people want to save planet Earth for generations to come, then recycling is necessary. On Debate.org, the question “Should there be mandatory recycling?” was asked and 84 percent said yes, while only 16 percent said no (“Should There Be Mandatory Recycling”). Recycling is very important to the planet and can make a huge difference in so many ways. Recycling is a way of life and once a person has made the choice to follow through with the steps, recycling can become second nature. Every small contribution adds up to how the society shapes the Earth’s future. How will someone make a difference?
Many people assume that the environment is not in danger. They believe that as technology advances, we do not need to worry about renewing natural resources, recycling, and finding new ways to produce energy. They state that one person in the world does not make a large difference. In reality, each individual's contribution greatly affects our environment. Our natural resources are slowly disappearing, and we must work together to save them and the Earth from ruin.
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Recycling is such a fantastic way for us to reuse the waste we once throw. Yet, not everything is easy to be done in this world. There many difficulties that face recycling process economically and socially. Usually In order to recycle, waste paper needs to be sorted and treated from any Impurities. Which means that companies will loss finance because there must be someone or something that could sort or treat these papers. Another problem is that to start recycling, companies needs a lot of good recyclable supply to pick it up; after all, they need good economic benefits (Problems with Recycling, 2014). According to the Waste and Resources Action Program, there are some barriers p...