true or false: Taking reusable materials from garbage is another way to reduce solid waste?

Answer 1

Kinda true and false....... if you take reusable materials and make something else, you're just moving it to another place, it still exists, and will eventually become waste anyway. It just prolongs it. In one sense though, it does "reduce" the waste, because recycling keeps the landfills from filling up so fast.

Answer 2

I think you are talking about recycling. And of course it reduces the amount of solid waste that goes into the landfills if it is recycled. Before my trash collecting service introducted a recycling bin, I took a truck load of cans, plastics, aluminum, newspaper, office paper, cardboard, and glass to the recycling depot every 2 months. Those items that were not recycled filled one small bin a week. Of course, we live in the country and don't grow grass, and we compost our other vegetable matter. That would have been another bin per week. Green matter is a huge landfill item, but it does decompose, unlike the other items I mentioned.
I save the plactic shopping bags I get and take them back to the store every week or so. I also carry reuseable shopping bags to use instead of the plastic the stores provide.
Our society is incredibily addicted to throw away containers and I shudder when I see the huge dumpsters behind every fast food place. Styrofoam can remain intact in the land fill for 100 years. Styrofoam peanuts, used for packing, and the molded syrofoam around your last PC, TV, appliance, etc will be just fine for 50 years after you are dead. And have you ever thought about how much of that stuff there is? You can't burn it because it gives off a toxic fumes that could make you very ill. Just for fun, check out how many barges of trash are hauled away from New York City A DAY! Ouch!
Now add in the millions of batteries, tires and gallons of dirty oil we discard a year from our cars and think about what the hell they are going to do with all the old batteries we are going to have to deal with as they roll out the new hybrid cars. By the way, most plastics have no recycling value. Look around your home at the furniture, containers, trash cans, etc. made of plastic. We really need to worry a lot more about our un-recyclable trash than global warming. Global warming is a natural planetary cycle. We can't change that, but we can clean up our personal act.

Answer 3

well, keeping re-usable items OUT of the trash definately does reduce the amount of waste in the garbage!

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Answer 4

True, reusing materials can cut down on the production of new materials.

Answer 5

Well, it does take *stuff* from the "waste" pile and put it in the "use" pile, doesn't it?

Answer 6

i would say yes because you are recycling