Recycling by akshay
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The document discusses recycling and its positive and negative effects. It notes that recycling saves resources and energy by processing used materials into new products. Positively, recycling preserves the environment by saving trees, reduces energy usage and pollution. However, recycling sites can become unhygienic from collecting debris daily, and harmful chemicals in trash can mix and cause water and soil pollution. The document also discusses waste minimization as reducing the amount of waste produced through minimizing resource and energy usage.
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- 1. Positiveeffects of recycling. Negative effects of recycling. Waste minimization.
- 2. RECYCLING Recycling is the processing of used materials into new products to save resources and energy, and the collection, storage and transportation of those materials from the initial user.
- 3. Recycling involves the collection of used and discarded materials processing these materials and making them into new products. It reduces the amount of waste that is thrown into the community dustbins thereby making the environment cleaner and the air more fresh to breathe.
- 4. POSITIVE EFFECTS OF RECYCLING Preserves the Environment Recycling a ton of mixed paper or newspaper, is equivalent to saving 12 trees. Recycling Saves Energy Recycling used materials reduces energy requirements in many manufacturing processes such as refining and mining. Reduces Pollution Reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, thereby helping to mitigate global warming effects.
- 5. NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF RECYCLING Lot of debris is collected everyday for recycling , and so the recovery sites can become unhygienic. Harmful chemicals in the trash, can mix into water and soil. This can cause water and soil pollution and harm plants and fish in the streams and lakes.
- 6. It is the policy of reducing the amount of waste produced by a person or a society. It involves efforts to minimize resource and energy. In contrast to waste minimization , waste management focuses on processing waste after it is created , concentrating on reuse , recycle and waste-to-energy conversion.
- 7. BY- AKSHAY KUMAR AGRAWAL