Does recycling reduce or help fight global warming?

Question

Does recycling reduce or help fight global warming?

Answer 1

Recycling is a manufacturing process that pollutes the air. Recyclables must be cleaned with chemicals, shipped with huge diesel trucks, and repeatedly processed in order to make it a usable product. It is not the answer. Reusing is. Quit makeing trash and then you wont have to worry about it.

Answer 2

I dont think that  it helps beacouse global warming may  be hurting our earth.But just living is killing our earth!

Answer 3

Yes, recycling does help fight global warming but is not the best thing you can do. Say you had a water bottle and were debating whether or not you should reuse it or recycle it. If you were to reuse it a couple of times you would be preventing your need to buy new ones and then would be in turn preventing the wasting of a couple more water bottles.

If you were to recycle it you would be preventing the need for new plastic but it also takes a lot of energy to make that new product.

Answer 4

Sitting trash doesn't emit "carbon" into the air, but melting the products down and emitting toxic chemicals to recycle them sure does.

Answer 5

You can't fight global warming but you can fight pollution.

Answer 6

it does neither.  But it does allow the reuse of valuable materials.  But it also uses up additional energy for example, where one garbage truck would collect all the trash in a neighborhood, now there's four, collecting all the different kinds of trash.  And if you don't separate it correctly, you have to keep the trash for another week.  Wonderfully aromatic in the summer.

Answer 7

Recycling takes energy. The use of energy is what causes global warming. Therefore, recycling causes global warming.

There are exceptions, such as aluminum, but even these shouldn't have secondary trash vehicles dispatched to pick them up.

Answer 8

Global warming is one of the most effective "fear tactics" implemented by the government to maintain societies brainwashed.

My 2 cents.

Answer 9

JUST REDUCE= NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING.

Answer 10

Think about all of the so called "CO2" emissions that come from all of the difefrent trash trucks and machines it tkes to pick up all of hte extra containers etc. These plases use more energy reduce waste than anything else.