What are CONS of recycling?

Question

i nedd some for a project for science class, and i have PLENTY of pros

Answer 1

My personal CONS of recycling are as follows:

1. Removing the caps off of the bottles

2. Removing labels off of bottles and cans

3. Rinsing all the bottles and cans

4. Flattening boxes (IE cereal boxes)

5. Not being able to recycle grocery/shopping bags with my  regular recycling

6. Having to take my grocery/shopping bags to my local Giant (grocery store) for recycling.

I think that's about it.  They are little things, but it still makes a difference for a full-time working Mom with a commute.  I would rather spend my free time with my child than having to worry about how to prepare my recycling.  I hope this will help you with your project.

Answer 2

It's much more expensive to recycle, in terms of money spent, energy expended and storage/reuse. It's much easier and efficient to just bury your garbage, because not everyone wants someone else's trash to be their treasure.

Answer 3

Not everything can be recycled.

Some things that can be recycled aren't easily recycled.

Recycling takes effort, education, infrastructure.

Answer 4

actually there is a lot of chemicals and pollution created by recycling.  For example metals need to be first striped using chemicals, then needs to be shredded probably and then melted using massive amounts of energy to melt....that cause more pollution from the furnace.  the problem is that the chemicals used is pretty vial stuff that can literally kill anyone that breaths the stuff....this stuff gets usually washed off or burned off and usually in turn ends up in the air or in the ocean.....thus killing a bunch of fish and poisoning the air supply which is always fun....so in other words recycling save us from cutting trees down and such but in turn kills things which is the number one reason against it.

Answer 5

I have recycled almost everything, one con is that it takes up a lot of space. Another is the low pay for non CRV glass which takes up a lot of space. News paper can be a fire hazard with not much pay for a ton. Hope this helps. Judy

Answer 6

How about the majority use commonsense? 1) use washing machine water to water lawns, and gardens. 2) use peels from fruits and vegetables to make fertilizer 3) for those of us who like to fish, make your own worm bed and use coffee grounds to enrich the soil $) instead of buying high priced cleaning products, make your own that are environmentally friendly...eg. Hints from Heloise .My name is Lizzy not Heloise and one of my favorites" The Queen of  Clean ". There are many things right around our homes that we can use and be kind to our environment. eg: water and white vinegar for washing windows, light foam from shaving cream to spot clean rugs, ask that your groceries be put into paper sacks instead of plastic; these paper sacks can be used for kids to decorate and wrap packages, put kindling wood in for starting your fireplace or wood stove. These are just a very few of the simple things we can do with very little effort and also practice living green. Do you have any good tips ? I'd like to hear them and share mine. Thanks ya'll and have a great day.

Answer 7

Discourages conservation/encourages usage because people think recycling is a panacea for the environment and they can therefore use, use, use...consume, consume, consume.

Sorry I can't think of anything else.

Answer 8

more money for the service im assuming, but postives outweigh negatives by a long long longshot

Answer 9

i have noticed that the people that own their property no matter their age, are more likely to recycle.

the majority of recyclers tend to be in the 30 to 60 yr age. younger people nowdays grew up in a wasteful time, so i think now recycling seems overwhelming to them. that it's just not worth it.

You need to be familiar with the town you live in and know where your recycle center is. a lot of people don't realize the centers take things like styrofoam egg cartons, those plastic trays meat are sold in, colored plastic and even the plastic grocery bags, besides the normal tin cans plastic bottles glass jars and newspaper.

Composting is a great recycling that lets you get the maximum  benefit for money spent....anything that is plant matter (common to us) can be composted. All vegetable trimmings *pre cooking with fats of any kind, crushed egg shells,coffee grounds and the filter paper, grass trimmings, leaves  even the shredded papers from your  home shredder. *i've been doing it for literally years and the compost suffers no damage* all the weeds pulled too. pile them up where the sun will get to them. it can take up to a year depending on how moist it is, how much sun it gets, what container it's in and how much it's turned but most likely much less time. the resulting product is the pest planting medium period! you can  sow seeds and plant seedlings directly in the black gold and hopefully harvest vegetables  from the trimmings composted the year before. it takes some work to recycle and compost and go green but it is so worth it. Do some research on your own.....serious. the first  homesteaders started it in the 1800s...for example, their furniture was in part made from the wagons they  settled with....no one came around to pick up their garbage, they composted it and repurposed it. just think what you can do. theres more benefits than you think. MY world is winding down....yours however is just beggining.

Answer 10

walking ALL the way to the bin.

Answer 11

Recycling is actually not beneficial to the environment at all, with the sole exception of bauxite/aluminum.

It seems like a weak reference, but there is a Show done by Penn and Teller called "Bullsh*t". They did a show on recycling that exposed the misinformation being generated about the practice.

Answer 12

I think a con is that people buy more stuff and packaging thinking that recycling it will make it OK. Instead of pushing recyling so much, people should REUSE their stuff. Like plastic bags, I reuse them as garbage bags, so that I don't have to buy small white garbage bags. Recycling the grocery bags takes up energy, reusing doesn't take MORE energy. My problem is that there is a new bylaw going into effect in my city where there will be NO MORE plastic grocery bags.  It is a good thing, but now I will have to come up with a new paln for my garbage bags. :)

Answer 13

if u r the only 1 recyclin in ur neighbor hood n the truck has 2 drive all the way there n bak burnin up more fuel so it culd take more fuel  2 recyle it then 2 ake a new 1

Answer 14

My grandma always said "waste not, want not"!  There are always cons where trash is concerned.  Best way is to not have trash at all.  I try to buy things that uses less packageing or uses no packageing at all.  I use cloth bags to shop with so I don't need plastic or paper bags.  I do recycle everything I can not reuse.  I pay for a company to pick up my items, like a trash service but for recycliables, they do there rounds only once a month and provide you with containers.. so in the long run (for me anyways) I save on gas.  What I would really like to do is start "fighting" for companies to start better habits to begin with.

Answer 15

the drive to the recycling center may cause more polution than is 'saved'?

Answer 16

Billions of gallons of clean drinkable water are wasted washing

out cans and plastic containers for recycling. Industry is using

the 'wonder' of recycling as an excuse to make larger and larger

amounts of petroleum based recycle friendly products. Larger

amounts of harmful products are being dumped down our drains

and going directly into our eco-system so there containers can be recycled.  Recycling is a good thing but those are some of the cons

Answer 17

Water waste from rinsing out the containers.

Unless curb side pickup, fuel & vehicle cost to get to recycle pickup.  

Time, it takes time to do these things when you could be doing something else.