* Recycling helps reduce the consumption of natural resources, such as trees used to make paper, fossil fuels used to make plastics, and metals extracted through strip mining.
* Producing aluminum from scrap instead of bauxite cuts energy use and air pollution by 95%
* Making paper from discards instead of trees not only saves forests, it reduces the energy used by up to three quarters and requires less than half as much water.
* Precious landfill space is conserved when you recycle; waste from houses and apartments can be diverted from the landfill through recycling programs.
* With bottle return programs you can recycle aluminum, glass, poly-coated and plastic beverage containers.
In this region, there are a number of companies that are directly involved in processing recycled materials or in making new products containing recycled material. For example:
* Making new newsprint from old newsprint and magazines.
* Making cellulose insulation from newsprint and other mixed paper.
* Making building and asphalt shingles from mixed paper, cardboard and boxboard (e.g. cereal boxes, shoe boxes).
* Making rebar and other steel products from metal cans.
* The City's Materials Recovery Facility has a staff of 36 to sort and market recyclables.
Visuals
What our world will be become of if we don't take action...
How long garbage will remain on the Earth...