Question by nenebear69: Benefits and drawbacks of recycling wastes?
List some benefits and drawbacks of recycling wastes. What are the major types of materials recycled from municipal waste, and how are they used?
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Answer by afthefragile
I can’t see any drawbacks of recycling apart from the human effort that goes into it.
Benefit would be you’re making use of waste to reduce the waste, less trash in landfills and as you’re recycling old stuff, you’re producing less of new stuff hence reducing your consumption of earth’s limited resources.
Out of all the household waste, paper, empty cereal boxes, milk cartons, empty bottles, glass, plastics are recycled.
I think car tyres are recycled too.
You can make recycled books, newspapers etc. out of waste paper.
Recycle old plastics to make new plastics. Recycle old tyres to make new tyres and such.
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I think the link below will shed some insight on that question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
The benefits of recycling are many, from lowering industrial costs and minimizing depletion of natural resources to shifting our cultural habits from linear to cyclical, to mimic nature’s ways.
The only drawback is that we still refer to anything as “waste!”
Benefits: makes us feel better.
Drawbacks: not enough to change the planet. Sell you car or be a hypocrite!
Recycle paper and save trees. Recycle aluminium and save a lot of energy etc. See http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/182/1/Recycling-energy-savings.html
Energy savings – recycling metals
These figures also take into account the sorting and transportation of materials.
Aluminium – 95%
Copper – 85%
Lead – 60%
Steel – 62 – 74%
Zinc – 60%
This is just for starters.