Question

you are a newspaper reporter , prepare a newspaper report on the topic ' Recycling affects environment '​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Recycling leads to less air and water pollution. Recycling a single glass bottle means a 20 per cent reduction in air pollution and a 50 per cent reduction in water pollution compared to making a bottle from raw materials.

A glass bottle takes 4,000 years to decompose, meaning that even if the degradable waste in the landfill properly finished decomposing, the land cannot be re-used as the amount of rubbish left will remain for thousands of years. This means more land must be used for landfills than necessary.

Recycling means fewer burdens on our constantly shrinking natural resources. Recycling a single tonne of steel means 2,500 pounds of iron ore, as well as 1,000 pounds of coal and 40 pounds of limestone are saved from being unnecessarily dug up.

Recycling paper means a preservation of natural resources and less pollution. It takes 24 trees to make one tonne of newspaper, with 12.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard used annually. Recycling paper takes 73 per cent less air pollution than if it were made from raw materials.

Failing to recycle electronics, especially computers and mobile phones, not only poses serious environmental risks, but also health risks. Commonly referred to as ‘techno trash’, many landfills are ill-equipped to handle the toxic materials of e-waste properly. A leak from a single cell phone battery can contaminate 600,000 litres of ground water. Recycling mobile phones not only allow manufacturers to reuse expensive and increasingly rare metals found in phones, but prevent dangerous chemicals such as mercury and cadmium from seeping into our environment.