The United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants you to recycle!
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns. Some of these benefits accrue locally as well as globally.
What are the benefits of recycling?
- Recycling protects and expands US manufacturing jobs and increases US competitiveness.
- Recycling reduces the need for landfills and incineration.
- Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials.
- Recycling saves energy.
- Recycling decreases emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.
- Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals.
- Recycling helps sustain the environment for future generations.
Everyone can find ways to to take care of their waste and recycle more of their garbage.