RECYCLING CENTER

Recycling Centre

Recycling Centre

Introduction

We live in a society filled with plentiful resources; on the other hand, we live in a torrent of trash too. As population growth continues to accelerate into the 21st Century, waste management will play an integral part in maintaining an ecological balance within our environment. We can no longer generate unlimited quantities of waste, and must sacrifice our economic viability to ensure long term protection of the earth. Therefore, recycling plays an important strategy in minimizing the generation of waste and reducing the need of hazardous landfills.

Discussion

It is expected that certain problems will arise with recycling initiatives but the positive factors from our efforts will override those obstacles (Gandy 2003). With high levels of public participation, sufficient financial backing and increase technological sophistication, recycling can be an effective strategy for sustaining a healthy environment.

There are numerous environmental benefits that come with recycling. When products are made with recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need for more resources such as oil, minerals, and pulp. By avoiding initial production cost, energy is also saved.

By cutting down on landfills, environment becomes contamination-free. This leads to decrease in air and water pollution and eventually affect acid rain and global warming.

Furthermore, recycling, when implemented sufficiently will deter littering and essentially waste management cost.

Our daily lives are a repetition of consuming something. In other words, stuff consumed by us is more likely to be trash if we do not want to use it any more. If we are concerned about usage of our resources such as water, paper, and many other daily things, we would realize that we have used too many unnecessary things recklessly. This was what I felt from taking these pictures. Therefore, it is precious to classify used things. We ...