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The Benefits Of Recycling

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Recycling: Helpful or not?

Recycling is a form of waste management in which someone would use something that has already been used to create something new. The environment itself is benefited because recycling is a generally “clean,” process which puts factories that release harmful pollutants out of business, and ready to be taken over by other vocations. Though recycling is widely viewed as an environmental benefit, it also benefits other factors of life. Recycling not only affects the environment, but also the economy and the world known today.

The process of recycling is viewed green, clean, and not entirely mean, and affects the environment in more ways than one. By recycling, everyone could make objects used everyday which …show more content…

Then there are the ones that need to go to a new factory all-together.” -Renewable Resources Coalition (1)

This up-and-coming green idea is mainly expensive, and is taken in by large corporations and businesses today. For example, the state of California has implemented large-scale recycling operations. Some of the world’s populace today thinks that recycling should be used on huge levels, but what would that do to everyone? The recycling process requires more money to operate, so taxes or other funding operations would have to increase to enable the processes, and, honestly, not many people would accept a tax raise. This would enrage a majority of the population and place even more tension on leaders from their own people. When it comes to recycling, there are many possibilities and outcomes which would not be in everybody’s best interest.

Despite recycling’s large cost, it helps to preserve and protect the world’s natural resources. By re-using the already processed materials, a person, or even a company, could save the trouble of trying to make it from raw materials by using materials already processed. Sometimes these processes, are expensive, and sometimes they are not, depending on the process.

“As of April 15, virgin PET was selling at 72 cents per pound, compared with 77 cents per pound for recycled PET pellets,” -environmentalleader.com (2)

According to environmentalleader.com, it costs 5 cents less per pound to use ‘virgin’ plastic, or

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