Monday, October 19, 2009

What is Recycling?

Recycling is defined as the breaking down of waste or used materials and processing them again into new and useful resources. Therefore recycling prevents waste, reduces enery usage, air and water pollution and lowers the emission of greenhouse gases, compared to creating a product from scratch. Therefore recycling is is both energetically and economically favourable, making it a necessity in our world today.



Recycling is coupled with reducing and reusing. Reducing means minimising the resource and energy usage during manufacture. Reusing literally means to use something more than once. This can be using it again for the same purpose or using it for something entirely different. It is different from recycling because recycling breaks something down into its raw materials, whereas reusing generally doesn't involve re-processing.



The symbol for recycling can be seen below:





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