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Why Do People Recycle and It’s true effects.

Over the past years the media has said to people that recycling is good, it helps the environment, it’s cheaper, and its absolutely necessary to live. There are many reasons why people recycle but there are 7 main reasons, that will be discussed in this research:

1.- It feels good. 2.- It saves money. 3.- It helps the environment. 4.- It makes jobs. 5.- Other things can be made from recycled material. 6.- It helps save overcutting of trees for paper. 7.- It saves landfill space.

1.- It feels good

This is all great, if you do something to feel good and it doesn’t directly harm others by all means do it. With recycling people feel good because some of the reasons mentioned before but all of this reasons are untrue or do not help at all.

2.- It saves money

One of the main reasons people recycle is because they are told that it’s cheaper to recycle plastic bottle, glass, paper and other things than making it from a virgin material. This is only true in the case of aluminum, in all other cases it’s cheaper and less pollutant to make it our of virgin material. Also to pick up one truck of unsorted garbage it takes from 40$ to 60$, while picking up a truck of sorted garbage takes from 140$ to 160$.

3.- It helps the environment

A few years ago there was a commercial from the government showing people throwing trash out if their cars to fields, and then they showed a Native American crying when he saw this. This was intended to show that we would end in a world full of trash and with no fields or forests. But this is not true as many people would not do such a thing. It also gives more pollution to recycle since all trash has to be taken in a truck, then to a factory for cleaning and then to another factory for remaking, and then out to another truck to distribute it again. This is a lot more pollutant than just making it out of virgin material.

4.- It Makes jobs

Although it does create some jobs they are basically make work jobs where there are exposed to trash for several hours, they have a extremely low pay, and its basically something that people don’t like to do. People are basically forced to do it considering the working conditions they are in. It looks more like community service rather than an actual job.

5.- Other things can be made out of recycled material

This is indeed true, shirts, pants, cups, plates, sheet, curtains, and many other things can be made out of recycled material but as shown with past points there is a flaw with doing this. In this occasion the flaw is that even if you can make this nice things out of recycled material is a lot cheaper and the things are of much better quality.

6.- Saves overcutting of trees.

This is another of the most controversial things. Many people believe because of the media that we are running out media that we are running out of trees because of overcutting for paper. This again is not true as there are many tree farms enough for lasting for new ones to fully grow. Also the paper companies are mandated by government to plant 2 trees for each one they cut down, so in theory if you want more trees waste more paper. The recycling of paper isn’t that much helpful, since all the paper has to be collected by a truck which makes smog, then its taken to a containment facility where a different truck takes it which makes more smog takes it to the cleaning facility which are normally many miles away from the city and near a forest. Then they are cleaned which creates more smog and the bleach used to whiten the paper leaves a murky hazardous residue that goes into nearby forests. Then after this procces is finished they are again taken back to the cities and distributed by another smog making truck.

7.- It saves landfill space.