Recycling to you may only be about tossing your recyclable papers, plastics, and other substances in a box that gets picked up by the recycling truck. However, to those who do the actual recycling process it is about separating and converting waste products and used items into usable things. Recycling in Long Island, NY helps prevent dump sites from being overfilled with waste and protects the environment. The following will discuss the importance of recycling.
Contaminants
Did you know that contaminants from plastics, ink, acid, and other items that should not be taken to landfills affect your water supply? More than that this affects what you eat, breathe, and drink in general. Consider the fact that toxins get into the water supplies of farming communities due to plastics and other things that should be recycled instead. That translates into toxins getting into the water, grass, foliage, and food supply of not only humans, but animals. The food products that come from these animals contain toxins since they cannot be processed or released by the animals. All this leads to is toxins getting into the human body simply through daily living.
Energy Consumption
It takes less energy to process and reuse recycled materials over the process of creating things from virgin materials. Most of the work is already done with recycled items like paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum. For instance, imagine how much energy it takes to turn trees into paper and then how much less energy it takes to turn recycled paper into new paper. This results in the reduction of energy consumption. It also reduces pollution and the stress on the nation’s economy and general public health.
Environmental Protection
Recycling protects the environment. Products that come from raw materials use up the earth’s natural resources. For example, trees being used to make paper have to be cut down. Even though some lumber companies plant two trees to replace every tree they cut down, it takes years for those trees to mature. Recycling cuts down on cutting down trees to make paper and other products.
These are the main reasons it’s so important to recycle all materials that can be recycled. You can find out more about local Long Island recycling online. V. Garofalo Carting Inc. is a local, Long Island company that provides recycling solutions as well as junk removal, dumpster rentals, and roll offs for residential and commercial use.
