Why should I recycle, when the government can always build a new landfill? Recycling just takes too long.?

Question

Why should I recycle, when the government can always build a new landfill? Recycling just takes too long.?

Answer 1

The main reason you should recycle is that it does actually save alot of energy. That in turn actually saves you money. If packaging companies have to continually use new raw materials that will mean that the price they pay for packaging will be higher than purchasing recycled material.

For example by recycling aluminium cans, it takes only 4% of the energy to recycle them than to produce them from raw materials. Saving 64,300 kWhs per tonne. Taking the US average kWh price across all states at 8.14c per kWh, this equates to a saving of $5234 per tonne of aluminium in energy costs and emissions of about 29 tonnes of Co2.

Any additional landfills that are provided by the government will increase your taxes through land purchase, construction and legal & consultancy fees.

So as you can see recycling is financially beneficial as well as environmentally friendly.

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Answer 2

Stop being lazy.

Answer 3

where do you propose we place this new landfill??  possible in your backyard?

Answer 4

I hope this question was placed here to try and get a rise then to look for an actual reason, but here it goes anyway ...

Recycling has more to do with renewing resources, that may someday run out, then filling landfills. Although landfills are another problem.

Answer 5

um........ idiot alert. Please close all doors, all windows and do not open for anyone. Idiotness spreads and needs to be contained.