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Recycling May Be The Key to Saving The Environment

By: Alex
Category : Environment
April 12, 2013

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Recycling is a very small price to pay when the benefit is reducing the stress on our planet and to reduce the threat of global warming. If more people who see the benefits, it would not take very much from any one individual or business to make a significant impact.

Recycling services Aurora know from experience that recycling is not new. Even back as far as the Greeks, glass has been recycled. Both the Greeks and the Romans knew that glass could be recycled indefinitely. In years gone by, even the wealthy recycled, they used old clothes to make quilts and draperies as well as pass them on to their servants. The Chinese were using recycled material such as old cotton rags to make paper eons ago.

 After the years of austerity of both the first and second world wars, a consumer driver convenience based society took hold. Nobody paid too much attention to the landfills that were overflowing, and the extent of recycling was paper drives and children that collected bottles and cans. As technology improved, plastics became popular and even bottles and cans began to disappear, leaving nothing but material that would not rot for centuries.

With the focus turning to recycling services in Aurora, there does appear to be some positive movement. There are even biodegradable plastics now that can be recycled and eventually turn up as cloth. Reusable shopping bags which are now very popular were at one time a plastic bottle.

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Many municipalities and businesses have mandated recycling to be part of the culture. Of course this is excellent news and it will have a major impact. Unfortunately, the current economic climate has meant that some costs must be pared and as some of the costs of recycling do outweigh the financial return, these programs have been put on hold. It is now up to individuals to press for programs which will perhaps provide some defense against an environmental catastrophe. If as few as 1% of the plastic bags we get from the grocery store were recycled, we would not see near the amount of damage being done to sewers and the decimation of marine life.

There are so many ways to recycle and help the planet. Schools are an ideal place for you to retire an old TV, VCR or computer. There are many organizations that take recyclables and ship them overseas where foundations can use the material to improve the life of the less fortunate.

When recycling services in Aurora are thought through in detail, there is very little that cannot be recycled. Household items, old wrecked cars, scrap garden furniture, old bicycles, the list is endless. When one considers how little energy it takes to recycle rather than start from virgin material, the long term implications are fantastic.



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