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Recycling Facts
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans and newspapers and taking them to the curb, Bob's Transfer Station, and the Recycling Center is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social events. Benefits accrue locally as well as globally. Many of our resources as well as our Earth are not renewable. Change begins in our own community.
The fact is many of our resources as well as our Earth is not renewable and we have to start taking control of ourselves beginning with the world we live in.
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb, collection facility, or drop-off location 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.
Recycling Benefits
- Recycling protects and expands U.S. manufacturing jobs and increases U.S. competitiveness.
- Recycling reduces the need to landfill and incinerate.
- Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials.
- Recycling saves energy.
- Recycling decreases emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
- Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals.
- Recycling helps sustain the environment for future generations.
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