why is recycling important?
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so as to make chemistry useful........application point of view...............
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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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A note on recyclability . . . \n\nFor food products in the US, recycled plastic must be depolymerized (broken down into component cheicals and no longer be a plastic), then repolymnerized to be used in food-safe applications. This is not the case if one uses recycled plastic to make fabric, or for use in non-foodsafe applications. The capital cost of the plant and energy involved in depolymerizing and repolymerizing the plastic make recycled plastic prohibitively expensive for foodsafe applications.
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well you can put what you should recycle. how recycling will help. like it'll help air pollution,water pollution, and stuff like that. state all the bad things that will happen if you don't recycle.
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During the large scale manufacturing of drugs, a certain amount of drug will migrate into the solvent. By recovering the solvent and reprocessing, this drug can be sold and yields will increase. The advantage of this is higher capacity and less hazardous waste.
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It makes people feel better about them selves to recycle, like when they cut down a forest to build a subdivision that there home is in, to make up for it they buy a hybrid to go along with their Chevy Yukon. The benefits are never enough.
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Wood is a renewable resource, which means it recycles itself.
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In my county in Maryland, we have recycling of glass, plastic, and mixed paper with weekly pickup at our houses. There seems to be widespread participation and it's much more convenient than lugging your bottles back to the store.
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For disposal of hazardous waste, many cities and municipalities have hazardous waste collection sites or special days set aside for collection of such items. Check with your city or county Solid Waste Dept. or Environmental Quality or Environmental Protection agency for information. If you have a computer that is still functional, consider donating it to a school or nonprofit organization in need. Also, a nonprofit computer recycling organization called Computer Recycling Center may be helpful (see sources). For ideas on how to recycle items from cell phones to used tires, or how to stay ahead of the game and REDUCE consumption of products (for example, use canvas bags instead of plastic or paper; stop junk mail), see the following sources. Did you know, for example, that 4 to 5 trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year, and that the majority of them are NOT recycled? If we reduce consumption (by using canvas bags, for example), we work toward making our earth cleaner and healthier.
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It will make people more aware of recycling value, in cash terms
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That's nuclear fission - used in nuclear power stations. The waste can be recycled to a certain extent and is done at Sellafield in the UK. Decommissioning nuclear power stations is a bigger problem.
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If a magnet will pick it up it is made (at least partially) of iron and can be recycled.
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the three R's! reduce, reuse and recycle.
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After the natural oil gone we can use other alternatives resources for producing energy such as hydrogen or solar cell, and we can still use plastics based products by recycling the plastics' trash because plastics is non-organic trash. if the space exploration success to find natural oil in other planet, we will use it.
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Have you tried www.freecycle.org? Check out the website. It's not exactly 'recycle' by the purest sense of the term but once you check the website you'll be sure to like it.
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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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There has always been alternatives, however there is a very big dividing line on what is better for the environment. Some say that paper waste is a big problem, but not many people realize that if they would only recycle, most of these environmental issues would be 1/2 answered. As far as I know, they do make plastics that will decompose. As we all well know, paper will decompose faster. Worries about trees, have gotten greater around the areas that are in danger of disappearing forever. Check into plastics that decompose fast. Then check that number against the %-age of that plastic which is recycled. You have a very good concern. I would love to hear some different opinions on this matter... Have a nice day!