Some does, I don't think amyone can say ';most'; with certainty.
You bring up a good point. If you want to support recycling, it's not enough to recycle your waste. You need to make it a point to buy recycled products whenever possible. If you work at a company, point out to them the economic and public relations value of using recycled paper, containers, etc.Is it true most recycling goes to the dump anyway?
nope, that's not true....in fact, here in Minnesota, a lot of the garbage that gets sent to the dump gets recycled even! pretty cool huh?
It depends on what you're recycling. Some hazardous chemicals produced by industry can be recycled.
For household items it depends on the recycling company that the city has contracted with and whether they have the ability to recycle certain kinds of plastic. There is a number inside of a triangle and it tells the place what kind of recyclable material they are dealing with.
yes most does, but that's only because we don't recycle more efficiently, and we have yet to invent alternative uses for the rest.
It depends on where you live the market for material is always there, but transport of material a lot of communities do not have the facilities to handle the volume of material. Scrap metal in our area gets shipped overseas, but other recyclable materials end up in land fills. Recycling needs to be localized so it can be more effective. There is always a use for all that waste somewhere, but human habitual waste is hard to break. Some people just flat refuse to recycle despite the benefits to everyone.
I would think that many things do go to the dump but think about it, if you recycle, I don't know paper, organic products or food waste products, then it is also good that the things are in the dump because they have giant machines that are able to turn the compost, which is what it becomes, easier then small recycling plants. Other products like metals I would think are reused, glass and plastic products too. Some of the plastic productes are treated to desolve without causing problems to the envioment, just look at out bags that we get in the stores, they have a life span to them.
every area has its recycling program , some pepole can recycle there own items ie aluminum cans scrap mettal glass etc and recive some for of money , most citys now have 3 trash cans one for recyclables one for green trash ie yard trimings etc , adn one for everyday houshold waste ie , food etc , most recyclables are melted down and then shaped into other things ie trash bags , car doors etc
It may be that people aren't recycling the right products. Certain areas/cities/counties/states only accept certain materials (like picking an choosing certain papers, plastics, and metals).
You can petition your local government to stop the dumping, and accept even more materials.
No.
The (UK) government is meant to be increasing the tax on landfill so it time it will become more economically viable to recycle.
As I understand it, there are greate benefits alerady in recycling plastics, paper and metals since the cost of extracting and processing raw materials is far higher.
Also, as more and more people request for their rubbish to be recycled, the economies of scale will help reduce the cost.
All governments should be encouraging this sort of behaviour by increasing tax on landfill and reducing tax on recyling schemes.
This is highly probable as even recycled items could potentially be re-made into something non-recyclable.
This is why I feel groups such as Freecycle provide a valuable service. They DEFER items from landfill until they have no further use.
I work on whatever I acquire thru Freecycle is one less item I've bought new so one less amount of manufacturing energy, packaging and recycling at the end of the items' life.
Everyone should be deferring items from landfill for as long as possible. I.M.H.O
No!
The only things worth recycling economically are aluminum and cell phones.
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