Honestly, do you think recycling helps?
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I think it does help. In Europe they have a policy that most of a building has to be recycled.  It does take energy to recycle, but over all it takes more energy to make it from scratch.  Not to mention the limited resources that are depleted and destroyed over time.  Just my two cents and your millage may very.  :)
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Educating People to be more concious of the Problem!\n\nWe all could recycle more, dispose of less.\nWe all could use more energy efficient heating and motor vehicles.\nDo we really need to use so much power - light that are not needed, leaving chargers plugged in, etc\n\nPeople need to be made aware of the situation and how we all can do our bit to help!
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Their really is negative no consequence of recycling.\n\nBut if you have to write a negative statement,   here’s one, as recycled metal and paper prices continue to go up the amount of crime due to thefts of material to sell to recycler's goes up.  \n\nThis is true in poorer sections.  People with no jobs, no money, tend to break in to abandoned homes and new home construction to steal copper pipes.  At today market value of $2.85 a pound runs into real money.  Not to mention the cost to replace the material that was stolen.\n\n\n\nALSO:\n\nEnergy required to recycle paper is more than the resulting product is worth.\n\nThat's B.S.\n\nTo produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.\n\n*Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.\n\n* If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!\n\n* If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.\n\n* During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.\n\n* If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!\n\n* The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!\n\n* The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.\n\n* When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in the dump!\n\n* Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.\n\n* Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.\n\n* The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.\n\n* In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.\n\n* In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper were recoverd in the U.S.--twice as much in 1980.\n\n* 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.\n* Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!\n* The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.\n\n* The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
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It's recycling paper. It's better for the environment.
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Maybe this will help?
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No.\n\nNot everything in your trash will become a gas. For example, organics will become charcoal, the plastics will decompose into a tar like substance, and unless you are on the surface of the sun you won't be able to boil the steel. In the end you will be left with a glob of toxic waste in the bottom of your distillation tower. Definitely not good.\n\nThat said, recycling is an excellent thing. You just have to devise a different strategy for each type of material. That's why every recycling program begins by properly sorting your trash.
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recycling material is A. harder than what you get out of it and B it porduces green house gases that you know about and C it costs a shit load more than just dumping it in a land fill and getting thousands of years of methane out of it. and also why isn't there a no green house gases law, or no sex before your married law, or a morally correct law that bans gays from marrying (which i oppose) because this is America stupid, and i have a right to do with my garbage whatever the hell i want with it (except litter) YAY
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Yes. And it should be.\n\nRecycled paper means less trash.\n\nThe recycling of paper which has been printed on and used is known as "post-consumer waste". It is more problematic,  but worthwhile. Paper cannot be recycled indefinitely, it can only be recycled 4-6 times, as the fibres get shorter and weaker each time. Some virgin pulp must be introduced into the process to maintain the strength and quality of the fibre, so no matter how much we recycle we will never eradicate the need for virgin fibre.By using waste paper to produce new paper disposal problems are reduced.
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I was just wondering what more I could do this week.\n\nI recycle paper and plastics... buy reusable products instead of disposable versions.\n\nI would love to get an e-friendly car the next time around.\n\nI should lobby more.\n\nI also taught my students to THINK and care about the planet. That is probably my strongest contribution.
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Energy savings are a very important environmental benefit of recycling, because using energy requires the consumption of scarce fossil fuels and involves emissions of numerous air and water pollutants. The steps in supplying recycled materials to industry (including collection, processing and transportation) typically use less energy than the steps in supplying virgin materials to industry (including extraction, refining, transportation and processing).\n\nAdditional energy savings associated with recycling accrue in the manufacturing process itself, since the materials have already undergone processing. Recycling in Pennsylvania in 2004 saved over 66 trillion BTUs of energy, enough to power 643,000 houses.\n\nRecycling paper cuts energy usage in half. Every pound of steel recycled saves 5,450 BTUs of energy, enough to light a 60-watt bulb for over 26 hours. Recycling a ton of glass saves the equivalent of nine gallons of fuel oil. Recycling used aluminum cans requires only about five percent of the energy needed to produce aluminum from bauxite. Recycling just one can saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for 3½ hours.
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I think this could be of some help to you..........
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it's a profitable industry in the private sector. If you are looking for government expenditures on recycling programs u would have to look it up in the federal budget.
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The way I see it is: as a society we are mass consumers. We buy, use a little, then throw away. Very wasteful. If you can reuse something, it puts a smaller demand on resources and your own pocketbook, not to mention the impact that recycling has on the environment that we live in. It's too bad that we are trained to just be consumers and not to see ahead enough to recognize the problems associated with this consumerism. Good Luck! That's my two bits.
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i am not sure if they do it in america but i get rid of all mine on freecycle.\n\nas long as you give it away for free then the person that wants it comes to your house and takes it away, at your convienience.  \n\nit's good for big items and stops landfill sites becoming even fuller.  i have given away a lot of baby stuff that otherwise the people couldn't have afforded  -a pram for example\n\ni feel that i am doing something good for me - gets rid of clutter, for the people getting the stuff and for the planet\n\nbest of wishes to you for thinking of other people - take care and lots of hugs\n\nthey do do it in the us - just checked - visit here and if there is not one for your area then start your own.
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Nope, it's called recycling, and the environment says 'thank you'!\n\nPlus, pat yourself on the back for being skilled and creative enough to craft your own dress, even if it's from a previous one. Not everyone can do that. :-)
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I am willing to do something about it. I recycle things all the time and travel on public transport all the time. If you would like to find out more of ways to save energy around the home there are plenty of websities to help you.
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It is true.  I don't know that they can be recycled, and they don't break down.  That is a problem.  This stuff will fill landfills soon.