how is recycling stopping global warming?

Answer 1

You conserve on resources. Take paper and cardboard. To make these products you need to have trees and a lot of water. If you recycle you are leaving trees up and not using the necessary water. More trees living means that more co2 is being taken out of the atmosphere.

Take plastics and metals. You don't need to spend the energy to extract their materials from the earth. You don't have to waiste the water to process them.

Answer 2

The simple answer is it doesn't help stop 'global warming' by recycling! Although the fanatical lunatics believe that it cuts down on CO2 gas emissions, which they believe to be the cause of 'Global Warming'. I have recycled everything that is possible for most of my life, at least 35 years now, and long before it was fashionable to do so. The reason I recycle is not to 'save the planet', but because I detest any type of waste. It is far more energy efficient to melt down an existing product than it is to produce it from the natural ore. I encourage everyone to recycle. I would also like to challenge anyone to beat my record of only putting out 3 plastic garbage bags in 3 years.

Answer 3

If garbage isn't recycled, its usually incinerated (burnt up). Garbage includes plastic wastes and if these are burnt along, harmful gases can be released into the atmosphere, destroying the Ozone.

Also burning releases carbondioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, increasing global warming. So it's better if wastes are recycled than burnt up.

Another thing is recycling a product creates less pollution than producing a new one.

Recycling is just one way of reducing global warming. It's gonna take a lot more than that to completely stop global warming.

Answer 4

Because it reduces the need to use new resources, which may have to be treated and thus increase global warming by the effect of electricity used.

However resource reuse or recycling has many more benefits than just reduce carbon emissions. Most times recycling a resource such as plastic or glass is many times more cheaper than using new resources.

Recycling also reduces the amount of waste going into landfills and incinerators which whilst not really that harmful to the environment do amount to significant numbers to it.

With the oil and gas crisis ready to happen very soon expect to see much more recycling of plastics with even the potential of landfill mining!!

Answer 5

There are 3 main environmental reasons to recycle:
1. Reuses valuable raw materials
2. Reduces need for landfill
3. Uses less energy.
Your question mentions global warming, so the real issue here is energy use.

The best example is glass recycling. If you make glass from raw materials the energy use is very high indeed to create the high temperatures required. Melting old glass uses 30% less energy than using raw materials. It is the burning of fossil fuels that creates CO2 that contributes to global warming. Using 30% less has to be good news, whichever way you look at it.

However, reusing glass containers would be even better and I wish the emphasis would switch to that. Denmark manages to re-use 98% of its bottles.

Answer 6

As many of the other replies have mentioned, it reduces the amount of energy required for the production of those materials which are recycled. Steel from recycled cans, etc, doesn't have to be mined, processed and then transported to a steel factory for production, all of which saves a considerable amount of energy (and energy production by power stations emits CO2).

One of the other reasons for doing it is because we're simply running out of landfills in the UK - there is so much waste generated that we don't have many more sites left to bury it in, and disposal costs are rising as a result. Personally, I don't want to see my council tax go up because some people refuse to recycle.

Answer 7

The more things there are recycled, the less things there are that have to be manufactured. The more paper is recycled, the less trees have to be cut down to make more paper.

Manufacturing pollution contributes to global warming. Abundance of trees helps prevent it.

Answer 8

- Recycling paper limits tree use for the same. Trees recycle carbon dioxide
-Recycling steel limts the energy usd for miniing
-Recycling plastic limts the need for oil refining, fumes and additional polution
- Waste dump generate methane, a grenhouse gas...limiting them y recycling is good.

Answer 9

Recycling is a vacuous exercise which mainly benefits China as the largest export by the US to China is recycled steel. It just ends up being more stuff to move around.

Answer 10

It reduces the need or waste of the enegrgy used to dispose of the consumer by product garbage as well as saves on the energy needed to produce that same packaging from scratch for new-use consumption.