2006-12-20 05:01:59 · 2 answers · asked by baby_mez 1 in Environment
About 5% of the electrical consumption of the USA is spent in creating pure aluminum. Any effort to recycle aluminum cans significantly reduces that effort.
Although less impact, recycling plastics allows us to reduce our dependence on imported oil.
The difficulties are several. Educating the public so that they are aware that they can help, and politically requiring the local waste management to develop and maintain a recycling program. Once that is done, it is just a matter of getting in the habit of recycling.
2006-12-20 05:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As developed countries generate tons on garbage , both at work and home and landfills are overflowing and often toxic . . . recycling is essential . . You CANNOT dump it in the ocean.
The difficulty is that products are rarely compatible with the environment after production (like plastics) and recycled products are often not as good as a virgin product .
Also, electronics are difficult because separating the plastics and metal is hard .
2006-12-20 05:12:32 · answer #2 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋