How does recycling of wastes help in ecological balance?

Question

How does recycling of wastes help in ecological balance?

Answer 1

It avoids the need to use raw materials to service the need that a recycled product achieves.  Accordingly we also save on the manufacturing process, which usually results in additional detrimental waste and exhaust gasses.

Answer 2

You need to define what you mean by 'help in ecological balance'. But if recycling paper results in fewer trees being cut down, then there are more trees in the environment, and the 'ecology is more balanced'... I guess.

You might be looking for examples where current human activities are upsetting the ecological balance, and recycling would help prevent this. This is a little bit harder. Recycling will stress the landfills less, and thus less land will need to be cleared for landfills, and less trash will be dumped in the oceans, which will help keep the fisheries from collapsing quite so quickly.

If we recycle metals, we will need to mine less, which means less land cleared, and less toxic metals from the mining process in the environment.

I hope that helps some.

Answer 3

somewhat yes .. its better than putting in all in a dump yard

Answer 4

Natural habitats (such as the rainforests from where the timber for plywood is harvested) are often damaged when humans exploit them for their resources. Products made from recyced materials can be made with less energy than those from raw materials taken directly from the environment. As energy needs to be paid for, this also costs less.

So there you have it; recycling is good for the planet and good for your pocket too! I've included a link to a page about waste recycling. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Recycling of wastes reduces the amount of waste ending up in landfills.  If it can be reused why wouldn't you?

Recycling things for instance metals, reduces the mining of news ores.  i e if you mix 50% recycled iron with 50% fresh iron ore you would rely a lot less on digging up fresh iron ore.

This lessens the overall environmental impact of everything that we do.

Another example, film used in photography...

the development process uses a chemical process.  The left over mix of chemicals is hazardous waste.  Now this waste has a lot of silver.  Well using an electical process you can remove the silver from the liquid, and then neutralize the rest.  This "reclaimed" silver can then be reused.

There is a way to recycle almost anything, the problem is the cost effectiveness of the process.

Answer 7

It keeps certain materials out of the landfill.