Why Recycling is Very Important for The Environment?
Recycling
is the process of converting waste materials or trash into new materials and
useful objects. Recycling is very useful for the environment and living beings,
because it can reduce waste or trash that can causes some diseases, pollution,
damage to nature, or even disaster like flood.
Based on data, Americans average litter around 1 ton per
person every year, Indonesians average litter 25,5 kilograms per person every
day. Environment Care Agent stated that’s more than 2000 pounds (1000 kilograms)
of trash every day around the world. Most of this trash gets buried in big
holes in the ground called landfills.
This condition causes the destruction of the environment to
be faster than anyone has predicted. If this condition keep being continued, Indonesia
will be buried in less than 50 years.
The government had done may ways to fix this condition. And
the best and most effective ways to stop or reduce this condition is by
recycling.
Based on condition above, recycling is a key component of
modern waste reduction and it is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse,
Recycling” waste hierarchy. Thus, recycling aims at environmental
sustainability.
