RECYCLING

Recycling is important in today’s world if we want to leave this planet to our future generations. It is good for the environment, since we are making new products from the old ones which are useless to us. Recycling begins at home!

Recycling is a process that consist in changing garbage into new products: it reduces the consumption of fresh materials, reduces energy usage, reduces air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from land filling), and lowers greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce. Reuse and Recycle” waste hierarchy.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste – such as food or garden waste – is considered recycling.

In the strictest sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material – for example, used office paper would be converted into new office paper, or used foamed polystyrene into new polystyrene.

Recycling of many products or materials can involve their reuse in producing different materials instead. Another form of recycling is the salvage of certain materials from complex products, either due to their intrinsic value, or to their hazardous nature.

Critics dispute the net economic and environmental benefits of recycling over its costs, and suggest that proponents of recycling often make matters worse and suffer from confirmation bias.

I. C. San G. Bosco - Catania

Class IV C

Teacher: Giusy Torrisi