Recycling

             Lately the earth's capacity to tolerate exploitation and absorb solid wastes
             disposal has diminished, due to excess trashing. People dispose lots of stuff,
             and simply do not care. Therefore scientists found out a way to reuse things and
             that process was called "recycling". This new approach seemed quite successful
             at the beginning, until its true identity appeared. Recycling first started as
             man's best friend, people were intrigued by this new phenomena. What could be
             better than using things that were already used. Recycling has been very useful
             especially that man is constantly consuming, burning up, wearing out, replacing
             and disposing at an alarming rate.(Durning 1992). However, unfortunately
             recycling has proven that it is quite costly. Although recycling of wastes
             material solves the problem of garbage disposal at landfills, and saves
             resources, it does nevertheless entail large hidden costs in collecting, sorting
             and manufacturing; therefore, it is necessary for the government to overcome
             such problems of recycling to be worth while and for manufacturers and consumers
             to consume less. Recycling has proven its efficiency in solving the problem of
             garbage disposal at landfills1. By the accumulation of garbage throughout the
             years, space available for garbage has largely diminished. In the states for
             example almost 67% of their waste stream ends up in landfills.(Scott 25). This
             has in fact increased the price of disposal. As Kimball stated "tipping fees" at
             landfills, is so often prohibitive(3), and some cannot find landfills to dump
             their garbage. It can cost up to $158 to pick a ton of garbage and dispose
             it.(Consumer Reports 1994). Beside, these landfills pollute their surroundings
             area with lots of hazardous materials and contaminate underground water. To
             discover the contamination of the underground water it would be 12 yeas after
             the poisons-benzene; formaldehyde; mercury; an...

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