Knowing the importance of recycling is one of the best ways to motivate us to do so. In addition to the general ideas that we all know, such as the saving of natural resources, the reduction of pollution or energy efficiency, recycling is a source of wealth that generates employment and constitutes a business millionaire.
However, the differences are important worldwide, both when recycling and with regard to their use as a source of income. This assumes that some countries make recycling into a authentic reef economicgetting to export garbage from others, while the vast majority renounces to exploit that potential and end up generating waste and waste energy, money and natural resources.
The three erres
Yes citizenship in general And, of course, also the industrial policies and processes keep in mind the theory of the three erres when consuming, the landfills would not be as saturated as they are currently. Instead of the prevailing consumerism, thanks to the 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) the miracle of throwing less garbage would work, preserve the environment and, in short, be a much more aware consumer or producer.
In addition, at domestic level, the three erres translate into savings and a lower carbon footprint. Without going any further, recycling a newspaper stack saves enough electricity to heat a house for about 12 hours and recycle an aluminum can allow you to keep a TV or a computer on for three hours. Or, even more surprising, light a 100 -watt bulb for 20 hours. If the bottle is glass, recycle it allows it to turn it on for 4 hours, and 11 more if it is a bottle of plastic.
The big recycling business
In addition to the good practices of reduce and re-usethe recycling complete the circle of the three erres, taking advantage of a waste after submitting it to a process that transforms it. We can do it at domestic level, through home recycling, which provides great possibilities for saving and creative expression for decorative and practical purposes at domestic level.
In this sense, reuse and recycling carried out by citizens is a way of carrying out eco-amygible practices that in turn help us moderate consumerism and, therefore, also save good money. Likewise, an active collaboration is expected from the citizen when recycling the waste generated in the home through their separation (colored containers) and the use of clean points.
In addition to the good willpower of the citizengarbage also moves large amounts of money and reactive the economy, but not always in the desired form. There are many organizations and entities that participate and take their share of the cake. In Spain, according to Plasticseurope, the recycling and energy recovery of waste inject more than 300 million euros and could be translated into 33,000 jobs.
A promising panorama, but very different from what reflects the mirror of reality. Currently, corruptions and fraud are frequent around waste management contracts. Without forgetting economic interests that go in the opposite direction, derived from the international trade of garbage, in which they earn money both who matter and those who export. Therefore, for some countries it is profitable not to recycle.
Infographics
The recycling of plastic in our country is an example illustrative. In Spain more than 10,000 million plastic bags are used every year, although only 11 percent are recycled, when it takes to degrade 150 -year -old a whop.
If all the discarded plastic was recycled, they would be generated benefits In value of 2,000 million euros a year, more than 30,000 jobs and an energy that we do not really have, since you have to buy it to other countries. In this way, energy dependence would be reduced, warns plasticseurope.
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