How does recycling help landfills?

Question

I really need information for a speech about recycling.

Please site your sources.

Answer 1

Less stuff going to the landfills. Recycling aluminum, glass, steel, iron, rubber, plastic, oil, Just about everything.

Answer 2

Recycling is NOT a safe alternative for landfills...

MOST of the garbage collected in those blue bin's ends up in the exact same pile as unsorted garbage.

It is also 50X more expensive to Recycle something then to dispose of it in a landfill... The Government subsidies the offset costing tax payers BILLIONS in wasted money to support the costs ineffective and unnecessary task!

If you look at the TOTAL PROCESS of reycling, say, plastic bottles you will see that it is actually cheeper AND more environmentally friendly to start from scratch...

There is a reason that Aluminum Can's pay you back for collecting them... It is cheeper to PAY YOU and/or a homeless person to collect the cans then it is to mine boxite and convert it into Aluminum.

The day that the homeless get paid for paper and plastic is the day that it will be a project that isn't just a subsity to creat make work and make people feel as if they are actually helping the environment.

Recycling Paper is just insane when you look at the process to make it useable again!

You need to transport it, sort it, shread it, bleach it, then go through the normal process to turn it into paper.

Recycling paper leaves behind a HUGE amount of toxic run off and you need to take the transportation of the paper from consumer to finished product into concideration!!

Besides... If you use less paper then the paper companies have less incentive to plant more trees that are used to make new paper...

Paper companies don't use giant 200 year old redwoods to make paper... They use fast growing trees on huge acerages of land, staggered so that as they harvest one field the next is maturing while they then replant the freshly harvested field!

Use less paper = Grow Less Trees!!

Oh, and the whole myth of the 1990's about how we are "Running out of land fill space" is just that, a myth.

AND they are NOT contained by a 1 inch thick layer of plastic... (Often refered to as a "Diper")

Landfills have 3 feet of nonpermiable clay then many layers of different materials to make sure that the liquid doesn't leak out...

And as for the methane that is released durring the decomposition process... ALL new style landfills use that as the ENERGY SOURCE that it is... Methane is an energy gas used to create electricity for the neighboring communities.

PLEASE, if you really want to hear some facts and not propaganda about Recycling then rent/download the Recycling Episode of Penn & Teller's Showtime Show called BULL$#!t.

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/prevepisode...

Answer 3

By recycling, rather than stuffing everything into a bag and setting it on the curb you can potentially reduce the waste that you produce by 55-60%. You may not be able to fathom this simply because not enough people are doing it. The national average for pounds per person per day is 4.5 # if you simply take out paper, boxboard, cardboard, plastic #1-7, Glass, Tin, and aluminum you should be left with food waste and non recyclable plastics. Take that one step further and start a compost pile in your backyard and you will have virtually eliminated your impact on landfills. Any information that you need can be found online or contact your local waste management facility.

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Answer 4

Less mining necessary and less garbage ruining land.

Japanese recycle everything.  They even make more land by pushing it into Tokyo Bay. It is called reclaimed land.  The highest building in Japan sits on reclaimed land. Monday is for burnables, Tuesday for plastics and glass, Wednesday for papers, and Thursday for metals.  A person often has to pay to take things to a second hand shop unless it is electronics.

Answer 5

I can say recycling helps because I am a trash man and the amount of newspaper and soda cans I see going there every day is incredible.

I take 25 yards of trash to the fill every day and I think if people were to recycle more that could be cut to at least 20 yards if not more.

I hope that helps you some

Answer 6

hahahaha  all of these answers helped me with my repot on global warming! well, exept the chick who wrote recyling dont help for S**t.  hehe dumbass

Answer 7

One huge help of Recycling in the Landfill is the apparent deduction of input in the Landfill itself as some wastes are retrieved for purposes of Recycling. As an added information, the Philippines is voted as the best Landfill Management in the World as cited in the Swedish Environment Magazine published this year. Landfills in the Philippines are the best manage Landfill in the World.

Answer 8

Recycling allows for less space taken up in landfills. If landfills are not capped (no barrier between it and the soil beneath it) Things we throw away can leak into the soil. Look up the EPA National Priority List (Superfund Sites) it explains how the whole capping thing works and the negative effects of pollutants leaking into well water, the ground, and eventually becoming part of the food chain, which lead to things in humans, cancer lung problems, and many many more. Another thing is plastics for sure #1 and #2 have very strong chemical bonds in their formulas they take forever to be broken down naturally, taking up more space and causeing possible hazards for the public.

less mining and more stock material for companies to use.

Long, but i hope it helps

Answer 9

I would emplore you to note in your speach that any items that are recycled wont be in the landfill to start with.  Therefore less waste and less land needed to put that waste in.

Second, in recycling it is so much more than just selling aluminum cans for a few extra bucks, now there are sites such as www.freecycle.com where you can list what you have and no longer need or what you need and do not have.  This sort of recycling saves the person from a trip to the landfill (saving time and fuel) and reduces waste int the landfill and most important it gets a second life with someone who still has use for it.  Freecycle only allows give aways, no selling, trading or bartering... just "here it is" and "does anyone need it".  Check the site out it will give you a new slant on the recycling.  Good luck and good topic...

Answer 10

According to this book that I have..

"if everyone in America simply separated the paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum products from the trash and tossed them into a recycling bin, we could decrease the amount of waste sent to landfills by 75%. Currently, it takes an area the size of Pennsylvania to dump all our waste each year."

Answer 11

Here's a great article on recycling:

http://www.greenstudentu.com/recycling.a...