The Benefits of a Clean Environment for Everyone
Recycling in Brisbane is the process of collecting, categorizing and processing recyclable materials, rather than allowing them to add up to the already over-abundant mountains of trash in landfills. The mission of recycling is to reduce the amount of trash we make each day and reuse previously used substances and materials again and again. A plastic bottle that was once used to drink water out of can be reused for another liquid or it can be recycled and processed to make a completely new substance altogether. This in turn allows the use of the bottle to be extended and is one less object to add to landfills. Recycling includes collecting and sorting wasted materials, processing those materials if they cannot be immediately reused, and finally putting the new products made from the old materials on the market. There are many advantages for yourself, your family and the environment overall if you choose to recycle in Brisbane: 1. You conserve limited resources a. Raw materials such as coal and metal ores are allowed to remain untouched and they’re not disturbed from their natural setting. This in turn also won’t need hundreds of miners to put their lives at risk digging out the earth’s raw materials. On an additional note, we won’t need to cut down trees or extinguish large acres of rainforests and woodland areas for the sake of producing more paper. 2. You promote energy efficiency a. How do you think new materials are made? Depending on what the raw substances that are scavenged are, they need to be extracted, processed, transported and at times melted in order to gain the final substances needed to make a new product. Money, time and a vast amount of energy are necessary for this process. 3. You help protect the environment a. By decreasing the amount of things that we toss in the garbage, we also reduce the chances that toxins and other materials find themselves either seeping into the waters and soil of the land, or becoming digested by other animals or come into contact with humans. Furthermore, the quantity of contaminants and chemicals that are released into the ecosystem by incinerator plants or landfills is lessened. 4. You become a part of a building and growing community
a. When people stick together to o achieve a common goal such as recycling, the cause is even stronger than having one person doing it alone. You, your family, your friends and your neighbors can all work together towards reducing, reusing and recycling materials that don’t really need to add to the already heavy heap of garbage that leaves our homes on a daily basis. 5. Recycling creates many more jobs a. Landfills and incinerator plants need at most a dozen hands and a few machines to get the work done. Machines are in fact doing most of the work while the people are the ones guiding them. When recycling, however, more people than machines are necessary so that they collect and categorize the recyclable materials. Machines are there only to process reusable substances into new ones but the most important process of organizing what materials go where is left up to the workers. Where landfills need six people to churn the earth and hide trash, the recycling industry needs at least twenty people to classify recyclables.