Mobile phones, computers, and similar electronics are now recyclable and people need to find means of sending such materials to be recycled properly.
Batteries are among the most damaging materials for the environment as they are made out of metals, acids, and other materials which are very polluting. Most countries have recycling bins for objects with a high rate of pollution within the reach of mainly all of their people. Poorer countries however lack such means of recycling and very harmful waste is being produced in those areas. There are communities which refrain from collecting hard-to-recycle materials for the fact that they do not possess the appropriate methods of recycling such substances. There are frequent cases of materials being gathered for recycling to be eventually thrown away as waste.
Rubber from tires is being collected all around the world in large piles without anyone caring about the damage that those heaps of junk pose for the environment. Despite the fact that tires are recyclable, recycling centers often fail from doing that because of the fact that most used tires have been vulcanized. In the process of vulcanization some substances are used that do not melt and later intrude in the process of recycling.
Pollution cannot be stopped if people don't work together and you have to be...
Everything in your garbage that's worth recycling needs to be separated and put into recycling bins. If all the people were to recycle constantly, hundreds of thousands of trees would be saved every year and large amounts of
energy would be saved as well. Despite the fact that the process of recycling has evolved tremendously, it is still far from enough to count in the prevention of pollution worldwide.
In order for the recycling process to achieve success at a larger scale, people should promote it so that everyone would learn the benefits of recycling. Being one of the largest and the developed country in the world, the U.S. is one of the countries that damage the environment the most. Much of this is owed to people that don't realize the effects that their actions have.
Recycling creates jobs, saves energy, and, most importantly, saves the environment from reaching a stage from which it cannot recover.
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Solid Waste Disposal." (2008). Retrieved February 18, 2009, from King County Web site: http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/measures/indicators/rc-solid-waste.aspx
