People are quickly filling up the world with waste, with no sign of slowing down in sight. So much so that we’ve had to turn to landfills to find places to put it all. We’ve yet to determine the best way to deal with the cornucopia of trash accumulating at our feet but one task that could aid in reducing these piles of garbage is to recycle.
It’s easy for people to throw any and all garbage into one container for trash removal, but sometimes that can do more harm than good. When papers and plastics are thrown in with regular garbage, trash removal services will take them to dumps which will then eventually find their way to a landfill. However, even just recycling one ton of cardboard that you may have simply tossed in the garbage, can save over nine cubic yards of landfill space where regular waste could have been placed.
Some people may see recycling as just one more chore on their to-do list everyday, but recycling services are available to help expedite the process for you. By providing an extra receptacle solely made for recycling, all you have to worry about is throwing your waste in the left bin or the right bin, depending on what material it is, for your trash removal provider to take off your hands.
It should be easy to find a local service to help with this considering that 87% of Americans have access to curbside pickup or drop-off recycling programs. Once you begin recycling as a routine, you may just realize how easy it wold have been to start doing so years ago.
With the average American estimated to throw out 600 times their own weight in garbage over the span of a lifetime, making a point to keep recyclables out of landfills and the environment will help resolve numerous problems going forward. Simply walking one extra waste bin down to the end of your driveway could make a huge impact in the future.
