Recycle

Benefits of Recycling

• Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators
• Conserves natural resources such as timber, water, wool, cotton and minerals
• Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials
• Minimizes pollution by reducing the need to harvest, collect and process new raw materials
• Saves energy
• Supports manufacturing and conserves valuable resources
• Helps create jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries.

How recycling creates jobs:

There are numerous local, national and international industries that depend on recyclable materials.

When you choose to recycle your discards, jobs are created in:

1. Collecting, processing and preparing materials.

Your discarded materials are picked up and then brought to processing facilities where they are sorted

and prepared to sell to markets.

2. Making new products from recycled materials (manufacturing).

Your recyclables then head to manufacturing facilities that use recycled feedstocks, such as paper mills,

metal smelters and plastic manufacturing facilities. Compost facilities turn your discarded yard and food scraps into valuable soil improving agents.

3. Reuse and remanufacturing.

Some discards are sorted and fixed up to be used again through computer refurbishers, charity shops and auto salvage yards.

REDUCE

Reduce the amount of plastic waste going to landfill sites.

Reduce consumption of oil in producing new plastics.

Reduce energy consumption in manufacturing from raw materials.

REDUCE

Reduce the amount of plastic waste going to landfill sites.

Reduce consumption of oil in producing new plastics.

Reduce energy consumption in manufacturing from raw materials.

REUSE

Recycling and reuse create at least 9 times more jobs than landfills and incinerators, and as many as 30 times more jobs.

Around the world, an estimated 15-20 million waste pickers earn a living

from scavenging through unwanted items that people have thrown out as waste.

Adapting this activity offers huge opportunities to improve sanitary conditions, increase materials recovery and alleviate poverty in the world’s developing cities.

RECYCLE

Recycling creates far more jobs than disposal

Recycling, reuse and remanufacturing create far more jobs than burying or burning our resources.

Recycling helps protect the environment

Recycling reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials.

All of these create substantial air and water pollution.

As recycling saves energy it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which helps to tackle climate change.

RECYCLE

Recycling creates far more jobs than disposal

Recycling, reuse and remanufacturing create far more jobs than burying or burning our resources.

Recycling helps protect the environment

Recycling reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials.

All of these create substantial air and water pollution.

As recycling saves energy it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which helps to tackle climate change.

UK STATISTICS ON WASTE

There is an EU target for the UK to recycle at least 50% of waste from households (WfH) by 2020.

The recycling rate for waste from households increased in all UK countries in 2017.

The recycling rate for England was 45.2%, compared with 46.3% in Northern Ireland,

43.5% in Scotland and 57.6% in Wales.

INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES

-2,5 billion disposable coffee cups are binned annually in the UK alone.

-1 billion black plastic food trays  go to landfill every year in the UK

– only 7% of plastic bottles are recycled globally.

-one third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted.

-According to a new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report launched at the World Economic Forum on 19 Jan 2016,

new plastics will consume 20% of all oil production within 35 years, up from an estimated 5% today.

INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES

-2,5 billion disposable coffee cups are binned annually in the UK alone.

-1 billion black plastic food trays  go to landfill every year in the UK

– only 7% of plastic bottles are recycled globally.

-one third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted.

-According to a new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report launched at the World Economic Forum on 19 Jan 2016,

new plastics will consume 20% of all oil production within 35 years, up from an estimated 5% today.

PLASTIC WASTE

Plastics production has increased twenty times since 1964, reaching 311m tonnes in 2014, the report says.

It is expected to double again in the next 20 years and almost quadruple by 2050.

Despite the growing demand, just 5% of plastics are recycled effectively, while 40% end up in landfill

and a third in fragile ecosystems such as the world’s oceans.

Much of the remainder is burned, generating energy, but causing more fossil fuels to be consumed

in order to make new plastic bags, cups, tubs and consumer devices demanded by the economy.

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