7 Benefits of Recycling and How it Helps the Environment
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The document discusses the benefits of recycling by explaining key concepts like reduce, reuse, recycle. It notes that 55% of solid waste ends up in landfills and outlines 7 main benefits of recycling: financial savings, conservation of natural resources, energy savings, community building, job creation, economic growth, and environmental protection. Recycling is positioned as a choice that individuals can make to help close the materials loop and reduce environmental impact.
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7 Benefits of Recycling and How it Helps the Environment
- 1. What is Recycling? 7 Benefits of Recycling
- 2. 55 Percent of million tons of solid waste we produce each year end up in our landfills!
- 3. What is recycling? • Reduce • Reuse • Recycle
- 4. Reduce means… • Decreasing unnecessary and wasteful purchases • Decreasing the volume of waste • Decreasing pollutants
- 5. Reuse means… • Taking care of our stuff • Repurposing • Donating • Upcycling
- 6. Buy Recycled • Products made from recycled materials • Make it truly recycling • Close the loop
- 7. It’s not recycling… …if no one buys or makes use of the end (recycled) product.
- 8. Recycling is a process. • Collection and Segregation • Processing and Remanufacturing • Purchase and Use
- 9. Recycling Benefits… • You • Society • Environment
- 10. 7 Benefits of Recycling • Financial Benefit • Conservation of Resources • Energy savings • Community Building • Jobs creation • Strong economy • Environmental Protection
- 11. Financial Benefits • Make money selling recyclables • Community Financial Benefits
- 12. Resources Conservation • Throwing away a single aluminum can, versus recycling it, is like pouring out six ounces of gasoline.
- 13. 1 million tons of steel recycled saves… • 1.3 million tons of iron ore • 718,000 tons of coal • 62,000 tons of limestone.
- 14. Recycling Saves Energy It requires more energy to manufacture a brand new aluminum can than it does to recycle 20 aluminum cans.
- 15. Recycling Builds Community • People work together • Communicate • Share ideas • Support each other
- 16. Recycling Creates Jobs 10,000 tons of waste: • Incinerated, creates 1 job • Landfilled, creates 6 jobs • Recycled, creates 36 jobs!
- 17. Recycling helps build a strong Economy • Lower waste management costs • Cheaper production materials • Energy Savings • Jobs Creation
- 18. Recycling helps protect the Environment • Reduced contamination risk from landfills • Reduced pollution • Reduced environmental impact from mining or extracting fresh raw materials.
- 19. Cleaner air… 2 million tons of waste recycled in 2006 is equivalent to taking 1 million cars off the road for one full year!
- 20. Recycling is a choice • The plastic bottle, paper scrap, or used cell phone won’t recycle itself… • It’s up to YOU to make that choice to recycle.
- 21. Recycling is a way of life • Once you make the choice to recycle… • And stick to that choice everyday… • Recycling becomes second nature – a way of life.
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- What is Recycling: 7 Benefits of Recycling
- There is still so much room for growth - 55 percent of the 250 million tons of solid waste end up in our landfills.
- What is Recycling? Whenever we try and define recycling, we need to think of the three r's of modern waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle.
- “ Reduce" means: Decreasing unnecessary and wasteful purchases, decreasing the volume of waste, and decreasing pollutants.
- "Reuse" means taking care of our things so that they can last longer, repurposing used items, donating or giving away unwanted stuff, and upcycling waste materials.
- Buy Recycled: products made from recycled materials to complete the cycle or close the recycling loop.
- It's not recycling if no one buys or makes use of the end (recycled) product.
- Recycling is a PROCESS, which includes: the Collection and Segregation of waste materials, the Processing and Remanufacturing of these materials, and the purchase and use of the recycled product.
- Recycling benefits you, society, and the environment.
- The 7 Benefits of Recycling are: Financial Benefit, Conservation of Resources, Energy savings, Community Building, Jobs creation, Strong economy, and Environmental Protection.
- Tangible financial benefits include people gaining income from selling recyclables or unwanted items from home and the savings that cities and counties make when landfill costs are reduced due to recycling.
- Resources Conservation: Throwing away a single aluminum can, versus recycling it, is like pouring out six ounces of gasoline. Last year, Americans recycled enough aluminum cans to conserve the energy equivalent to more than 15 million barrels of oil.
- For every 1 million tons of steel recycled saves 1.3 million tons of iron ore, 718,000 tons of coal, and 62,000 tons of limestone.
- Recycling Saves Energy: It requires more energy to manufacture a brand new aluminum can than it does to recycle 20 aluminum cans.
- Recycling Builds Community: People work together, Communicate, Share ideas, and Support each other when they're involved in a worthy common endeavor like recycling.
- Recycling Creates Jobs: 10,000 tons of waste when incinerated, creates 1 job; when landfilled, creates 6 jobs; when recycled, creates 36 jobs!
- Recycling helps build a strong Economy in terms of: Lower waste management costs, Cheaper production materials, Energy Savings, and Jobs Creation.
- Recycling helps protect the Environment: Reduced contamination risk from landfills, Reduced pollution, Reduced environmental impact from mining or extracting fresh raw materials are all direct results of recycling.
- Clean Air: 82 million tons of waste recycled in 2006 is equivalent to taking 39 million cars off the road for one full year!
- What is recycling? Recycling is a choice: The plastic bottle, paper scrap, or used cell phone wont recycle itself. Its up to YOU to make that choice to recycle.
- Recycling is a way of life: Once you make the choice to recycle, And stick to that choice everyday, Recycling becomes second nature - a way of life.
- Lets all recycle today.