Posts Tagged ‘reduce’

Do your part, reduce, reuse and recycle

Friday, December 4th, 2009 by macinger84

Recycling engrosses gathering goods that have attained the end of their existence and handing them or their elements into components to assemble fresh goods. The three Rs of environmentalism are reduce (consumption), reuse (and/or repurpose), and recycle.

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Reduce plastic usage, recycling isn't that simple

Recycling is not that green as compared to reducing or reusing, as that does not produce greenhouse gases, aim to reuse and reduce first and principally. Broken glass can be changed into bottles by recycling, but it is supposed to go through a mechanized procedure to get there, and that procedure uses energy. In a perfect world, the power would be produced using renewable supply such as hydro, wind, and solar power with the intention that the recycling procedure is entirely green. However, in the actual world, that is not generally, how it works.

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