What are the consequence of not recycling?

Question

What are the consequence of not recycling?

Answer 1

Recycling and Why We Should Do It!!! :

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Answer 2

Consequences? WOW! There's SO many I don't know where to start! Hmmm... let's see...

- It'll add to the extraordinary piles of landfill covering our Earth, and will contribute so much to our landfills that we'll actually be living in garbage.

- Animals could just eat it off the ground and die.

- You can blame yourself for being one of the contributers to our no longer "Green" and peaceful planet.

- You'll have to pay more money when you put out your 4 garbage bags at the curb each week.

- You'll have environmentalists after you for not trying to protect our planet.

- You'll put the people who pick up the recycling each week out of their jobs.

- You'll put the people who sort the recycling out of their jobs

- You'll never see the symbol "Made with 100% recycled paper" again.

- Lessons teaching the world to use the three R's will be a thing of the past.

- There'll be an even greater need for people to pick up garbage and do community service around the world since the amount of litter in our world will increase dramatically, possibly multiplying by over one hundred times the amount already!

Now, I have to get to school, otherwise I'd continue, but I think you've probably gotten my underlined message of "KEEP RECYCLING! DON'T EVER STOP RECYCLING!"

Answer 3

Probably nothing, unless there are laws requiring it, then the consequences of not recycling would be governed by the jurisdiction having authority

I mean every thing that is used was already here to begin with. Like oil is in the ground, and in the water already. So lets say you pump out some oil from the ground and then oops you spill some what happens. Well micro biological organisms that eat oil do what they have alway done as part of the eco system they eat the oil and it gets dissipated or it collects at it's new location as it did originally.

So the consequences of not recycling would really be a matter of government enforcement due to environmental alarmist.

What are they going to do with this recycled material keep using it over and over and over. Material breaks down into simpler molecules and over time degrades so you will have to find more ways to continue to recycle something into something else. It's like trying to figure out what to do with all the dirt in the world. You dig up a hole in the ground to put in a building and where does the dirt go it goes around and around just gets moved around or perhaps makes different stuff like sifted into sand and rocks, then sand makes concrete, then over time the building gets torn down the concrete gets broken up and recycled or reused, or put in a landfill until it degrades back down to sand and lime again. Then perhaps dug backup and used again.

Well thats all I know.

Answer 4

WASTE!  LOTS OF IT!  Spend an hour or two at your local transfer station. Imagine triple that .  What kind of world do you want to live in?

Answer 5

Re this topic:   A while ago our condo association sent violation notices to residents that left their recycle buckets outside their units.  We had been keeping them in back of our units for years, but they decided it was obtrusive to view.  I know residents that turned their buckets in and put their recycles in the regular trash.  The association has since eased up on the violation notices.

Answer 6

global warming!

jeeze you really dont pay attention to washed up political leaders.

Answer 7

For one it keeps the metals and plastics out of the landfills where they do not decompose as well as food products. The plastics and metals are retransformed into other usable products that we can use and not have to resort to raw materials as much. Recycled Plastics are the new wave for decks and trim as they will not rot and you do not have splinters or termites, they can also be covered in a low volatile latex paint.

The food products are capped in a landfill and they can extract the methane gas from that to create a form of heat to either produce power or melt the plastics.

It is pretty much a can do attitude that has only came about in the last 20 years because of the concerns for our childrens children and what we can do to save what we have .

On the other end ,it is also nice to see someone be able to use what I have no more use for and make it work for themselves or someone else.

I also  would not like to live in a condo/house that was built over a landfill because it will either fall in as it (the garbage)deteriorates or may get some kind of disease that came from the stuff that was in there that no one has the cure for yet.