By: Steve Patterson
Submitted: 2010-06-10 21:53:15 | Word Count: 772
Recycling is the process of collecting products that have reached the end of their uses and reprocessing them or their components to make new products. Recycling is considered to be the third option of acquiring a green world. This is after other two processes of reduced consumption and re-use of goods (Yvonne et al, 2008).
The benefits of recycling dummies include;
Too much garbage
The first importance of recycling dummies is to reduce the amount of garbage which is sent to garbage sites. The amount of garbage has increased tremendously since 1980,s due to increase in population and products consumption. This increase is coupled with increased space demand making it expensive to create more dumping sites. This has made the garbage disposal an expensive exercise (Get stuff, 2009).
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Recycling for dummies hence is viewed as a process that can offer a good solution to the increasing amount of garbage in the towns. It will result to reduced amount of garbage dumped in the garbage sites. This will save our land for other useful activities and the environment will go the green way.
Pollution
Dumping of garbage causes pollution of land, air and water pollution. The assortment of chemicals and toxics from different types of industrial goods has a great pollution impact to the environment.
The toxics drain from the garbage and gets into the underground water, they cause huge water pollution in the water cycle which is very harmful to the environment. An example of a toxic waste is mercury which affects the nervous system of people and animals.
The other major pollution is land pollution where after the solid waste has been disposed in a particular piece of land they are no other productive economic activities that can take place in the same place. This shows that recycling is so important in saving our environment from pollution.
Depletion of resources
When new products are manufactured they use the natural resources, this results into a continuous depletion of natural resources which are non renewable. For e ample copper wires uses natural copper which once depleted is non renewable and the manufacture of plastics use fossil fuels which takes very long time to form.
This shows that recycling of dummies helps in saving our natural resources; this secures the lives of our future generations. It also saves the economy the need of importing raw materials for the manufacture of new items in the country (Dummies .com, 2009).
Energy saving
The process of recycling uses less energy as compared to the manufacture of a new product. When a product is made from recycled products the energy which is used in extraction and transportation of raw materials to the industries is saved. The whole process use a considerable less amount of energy as compared to manufacture of new products.
This shows that recycling is one method of solving the energy crisis in the world today. This is very economical because the cost of energy is going up day by day creating energy crisis in many countries economy (Yvonne et al, 2008).
Jobs creation
Recycling employs large number of people in the processes; these are the collection, sorting and the industrial processes in the manufacture of the recycled products. The recycling companies employs a large number of people in the economy, these jobs would not have been created if there was no recycling. This employment contributes to the GDP of the country as well a raising the living standard of people.
Money
The companies who engage in different recycling processes are able to save a lot of money in their budgets. The first saving comes from energy saved such that they use less energy in their processes because the industrial processes are few. There is also the national saving of land from disposal of the garbage
Various recyclable dummies
Used electronics
Due to the technological advancement in the world many electronics’ equipments are difficult to re-use after several years, this may be due to technological incompatibly. This short shelf life of electronic equipment creates huge losses and is a source of many toxic waste because of the components that’s makes them. The electronics may contain elements like mercury, cadmium, lead and chromium which are very harmful to the environment (Dummies .com, 2009).
There are various processes that have been developed to recycle electronic equipments. These processes use the used electronics to develop new electronic equipment or other industrial good. These processes are environmental friendly and pose less health risk to people. A national center for electronics recycling has been developed to research on different electronics recycling process that can be developed. This will help to solve the problem of E –waste in the country.
