Recycling

**Advantages**

​ -- Recycling helps to limit the amount of glass, paper and plastic that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills because it's being reused. Currently, 100% of all refuse is recycled.

-- Adds jobs to the economy

-- Slows the consuming of natural resources

-- Makes people environmentally aware

-- Promotes scientific advancements in recyclable and biodegradable materials

-- Makes governments and businesses choose programs and apply policies in consideration of preserving and respecting the environment.

**Disadvantages **

-- Seperate factories must be set up for the recycling of materials, and this will just cause more pollution and energy consumption for transport, sorting, cleaning and storage.

-- Twice as many trucks on the road : those collecting garbage and those collecting recycled goods.

-- Pollutants produced by the recycling process itself, including chemical stews when breaking down different products.

-- Recycling is not cost-efficient and annually results in a net loss It costs $50-60 to landfill a ton versus $150+/- to recycle a ton.

--Only the recycling of aluminium really makes any money. Reclaiming metals is feasible and fairly easy, whereas plastics and paper are expensive, wasteful and overly difficult.

--Adds to taxes, and is a tax subsidy costing 8 billion a year in the USA alone.

-- Creation of low-quality jobs. Jobs include sifting through garbage to separate it, dealing with the toxins from the breakdown process, and other manual-intensive labor tasks.

-- A considerable percentage of items marked as recyclable end up trashed or burned anyway due to poor quality, contaminants, lack of resources able to handle that item in a specific region or recycling installation.