More and more people recycle everyday. This helps to reduce the need for landfill and more costly forms of disposal.
Recycling also reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials all of which create substantial air and water pollution.
This helps to save energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping to tackle climate change.
Whilst recycled materials are valuable commodities in the worldwide market and are financially important; recycling is good for the environment too. It makes best use of our limited natural resources.
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Recycling is a real success story and we should be proud of what we have achieved as a nation – but there is still much more we can do.
In 2008-09 over 27 million tonnes of household waste was collected by local authorities. Of this: 50% of this waste was sent to landfill; 37% was recycled or composted; and 12% was incinerated for energy recovery.
The amount of household waste recycled in 2008 reached an impressive 8.7 million tonnes. That alone saved the same amount of CO2 that nearly a million return flights from London to Sydney would produce.
Basically, recycling jelps in keeping the environment clean; Reduces the amount of waste produced; helps in the conservation of many non-renewable resources; saves energy and thus helps in avoiding energy crisis.
Also, it prevents landfills and incinerators from getting extremely overloaded, saves and protects the economy of a household, helps in creating new job opportunities and restrains the hunt for raw materials by scavengers, thereby preventing diseases traceable to such activities.
