Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Recycling can benefit your community and the environment.
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Benefits of Recycling
Steps to Recycling Materials
Recycling Creates Jobs
Benefits of Recycling
Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators
Conserves natural resources such as timber, water and minerals
Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials
Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials
Saves energy
“Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that’s what consumers want.”
– Jerry Greenfield, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
The Philippines is drowning in garbage, much of it of its own making. It's not a new problem. The country is a major contributor to plastic pollution in the ocean, the world's third-worst offender. While some of that plastic may be swept away to become a more generically global problem. They held post-activity summit to report on the metrics/numbers (LGUs participated, number of volunteers, and volumes of waste collected for recycling and proper disposal.