Why is recycling important?
Recycling is important to the future of our planet and is essential to the cities around the world and to the people who live in them.for many reasons. One of these is that we are fast using up the earths precious resources and many of these resources are not renewable. It is also important to start recycling as it takes considerably less energy to recycle an existing product than to source and make one from new.
The Recycling Process
Recycling involves processing used materials into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air (from incineration) and water (from landfilling) pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recycling is a key part of waste management's "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"
Recycling Latest News
2 Feb 2010
UK Lighting Industry Has Record Recyling Year
The not for profit WEEE compliance scheme, Recolight, has recenltly made public its figures that show a record year for 2009. Recolight funded the collection and recycling of over 25 million Gas Discharge Lamps (GDLs).
Since its launch in 2008, it has sucessfully recycled more than 50 million lamps, equating to around a fifth of a tonne of mercury which would have been no doubt destined to head for landfill.
Recolight has said the figures show the commitment of the UK's lamp industry to make recycling lamps a much more efficient and simple process.
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