Lately the earth’s capacity to tolerate exploitation and absorb solid wastes disposal has diminished due to excess trashing. People dispose of lots of stuff, and simply do not care. Therefore scientists discovered a way to reuse things in a process was called "recycling". This new approach seemed quite successful in the beginning, until its true identity appeared. Recycling first started as man’s best friend; people were intrigued by this new phenomenon. 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. However, unfortunately recycling has proven that it is quite costly. Although recycling o

Another disadvantage of recycling which makes it unattractive for manufacturers is that economically, the recycled material is not highly demanded, it is not that pure as the virgin material. In a grocery stores most of the food is kept in cardboard containers or boxes that are made out of recycled multi-material. While books and furniture that are made out of artificial wood and paper do not prefer the usage of recycled material. This is a very good reason to look for an alternative because recycled material cannot be used in projects that are worthwhile, such as books and furniture. In many cases, manufacturers would be forced to switch from multi-material packages, which are difficult to recycle, to homogeneous, single-layered packaging.

Recycling has proven its efficiency in solving the problem of garbage disposal at landfills. 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. This has in fact increased the price of disposal. It can cost up to $158 to pick a ton of garbage and dispose it. Besides, 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 years after the poisons-benzene; formaldehyde; mercury; and BCEE- have actually contaminated the land, and had sunk 24 feet into the ground contaminating about 50 million gallons of underground water. Besides, these lands could be used in more useful ways such as building schools, hospitals, or simply turning them into large green areas to purify the air. This problem is practically acute in Egypt, since we do find, even in central areas of the city, piles of garbage disposed very near to residential areas. Recycling would therefore eliminate this problem and protect the environment.

Though these are great advantages to the environment and us, recycling costs more than you could imagine. A study found that when the cost of garbage is calculated by volume, land filling and recycling costs are roughly the same. Recycling does not appear to save any money, this applies to most of the European countries and the United States and studies have lately proven so. Recycling is a good thing, but it costs vast amounts of money. This view has been confirmed by John E. Jacobson, who is the president of AUS, a consulting firm in Philadelphia who stated that it is often more expensive to recycle than to manufacture from raw material. The process goes through lots of phases. First; is the collecting and sorting of garbage. Second; is manufacturing and marketing. Collection should be a phase by itself. In developed countries such as the States, Europe, and the Far East, the people have a great deal of awareness of the situation. People know that recycling is important and would save us lots and lots of things. The countries themselves should provide facilities to help the people recycle, such as machines that recycle cans on the spot and gives 2.5 cents/can and recyclable-collecting programs and others. These collecting programs are costly and they do not work in apartment buildings. Vehicles that transport these materials are not cheap either, and bulky objects waste mos

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