3R: The Benefits Of Recycling

Benefits of Recycling

Anyone has seen the symbol which is shaped like triangle and formed by three arrows. This is called 3R which stands for “Reduce” “Reuse” and “Recycle”. This symbol started to use in order to express basic idea of effective use of resources. Especially one of the 3R; “Recycle” is getting more attention because recycling has great potential to save resources. According to the recycling facility in Lake County called Waste Management’s Recycle America, in a year, the company handled more than 120,000 tons of materials which can be recycled. This is huge amount of resource, but just tip of an iceberg. Human beings produce enormous amount of waste every day. If we keep just throwing away such a lot of recyclable, the resources

Take an example a company called Ogawa Econos which is located in the east part of Japan; there is a recycling company which lead the business successfully. Basically, the company deals with general and industrial waste. In addition to the business, the company process solid fuel from wasted plastic and used paper. The solid fuel burns as strong as coal, and it gives enough power to boiler. Besides, the company gathers food scraps from schools and families and produce fertilizer from the waste. Thus, recycling business has a lot of possibilities to grow. Furthermore, once recycling business grows, the employment would be increased. It is also good for society and employee’s family.

As a result, recycling can be financial activities such as cash back and recycling company. In these ways, recycling makes benefit to people and also society. This is one of the trends of the recent world. In fact, more and more people start to be involved in recycling business. In such situation, people might pay less attention to the original purpose of recycling. Therefore, people should be reminded the main reason of recycling. The most important thing is focusing on saving resources by

Nowadays, there are many kinds of problems such as global warming and deforestation. Losing the environment which is difficult to reverse is going to be huge damages in many ways for human beings. For example, people who depend on agriculture might not be able to harvest enough crops or vegetables because of the weather change. However, recycling would be one of the solutions of the problem. First of all, global warming is caused by increasing gases, especially Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide is generated when something is burnt, so reducing the amount of waste would help to suppress global warming. Recycling is considered as one of the ways to reduce carbon dioxide. Everyday enormous amount of waste is burnt, and this activity makes huge amount of carbon dioxide. However, people can reduce the amount of the waste by recycling, and it suppresses global warming. This activity might seem to be long way to get benefit which is easily recognized, but people should do something even if it is small