"Recycling our waste, be it on a small scale in the home or office or on a large scale like the nation’s landfills will potentially cut millions of dollars a year – millions of dollars that can be put into other important programs. Is recycling cost-effective? It saves tax money and has potential to pay you for your old electronics and junk. From analysis, it would seem so. This is from an article that appeared on All Green Website: http://www.allgreenrecycling.com/blog/is-recycling-cost-effective/"

2. In elementary school, you may have heard the phrase
“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” With current rates of sustainability,
this phrase may become more relevant than chanting the
phrase in a third year classroom. As a reminder, recycling is
the process of changing a used product into one or more
usable products. This is usually done by melting down or
grinding up the “original” product and re-purposing it.
Recycling isn’t just a boost for the environment, though – it
can be beneficial to your pockets, as well.
Humankind has been recycling for much of its time here. It
has been a practice since at least 400 BC. During WWI and
WWII, recycling was cost-effective even then as it made new
equipment for the war. However, manufacturing has gotten
much more efficient over the last 50 years, so the question
arises: is recycling cost-effective?
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3. Recycling creates more jobs than landfill sites. According to the U.S.
Recycling Economic Informational Study, over 50,000 recycling plants
have created over a million jobs in the United States. In a time where the
amount of jobs is limited, this is a priceless resource all on its own. For
comparison, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s
studies have concluded that for every 10,000 tons of waste dumped into
a landfill, one job is created. However, for the same amount of waste
going to a recycling plant creates 10 jobs specifically recycling, or 75 jobs
pertaining to material reuse. The Green Economy Survey for California
states that recycling jobs create a substantial 27% of the 433,000 ‘green’
economy jobs in the state. These jobs are held by a wide demographic,
including retirees, veterans, and military personnel.
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4. Additionally, recycling cuts landfill costs. Building a new landfill incurs
several costs – between $500,000 to $1,000,000 for the design and
engineering alone. The lining – what keeps waste from seeping into the
ground and contaminating it – will cost about $75,000 per acre. This
money comes from tax funds, meaning that taxpayers are the ones
who fund these expensive facilities. Even if no new landfills were
made, it still costs millions of dollars per year to run. A solution to this
has actually been implemented in Sweden for the last decade: burn
landfill waste for energy. This has proven so effective that Sweden is
looking to import trash from other countries because they have little left
to burn. This saves money in two departments, both energy and waste.
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5. One very important method of recycling that many people
overlook is e-recycling. E-recycling is the specific recycling of
things like old cell phones, CDs, floppy discs, old cables and
cords, and much more. Considering how fast our technology is
growing, older devices can become obsolete within a year. So
what to do with them? Some store these older devices to use as
a backup, some trade their old devices for new ones, and some
simply throw them away. According to Duke University, e-
recycling costs are a fraction of those incurred simply disposing
the material. This makes recycling very cost-effective for many
businesses, making it more attractive to upgrade outdated,
slower machines.
Another form of recycling that is often overlooked is scrap. For
example, at the time of this writing, on average aluminum cans
can be traded in for $0.35 per pound. For anything above 100
pounds, this comes up to $0.35 Aluminum wire sells for between
$0.26 to $0.58. Old automobile batteries can be sold for $7, and
many other metals such as lead, copper, brass and iron sell for
$1 a pound and up.
In short, recycling our waste, be it on a small scale in the home
or office or on a large scale like the nation’s landfills will
potentially cut millions of dollars a year – millions of dollars that
can be put into other important programs. Is recycling cost-
effective? It saves tax money and has potential to pay you for
your old electronics and junk. From analysis, it would seem so.
http://www.allgreenrecycling.com

6. Website: http://www.allgreenrecycling.com
All Green Recycling
info@allgreenrecycling.com
(800) 780-0347
Source:
• http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/296 (pd
f)
• http://www.epa.gov/region9/newsletter/feb2011/greenjobs.ht
ml
• http://dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/pubs-reports/rececon.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Recycling#Cost.E2.80.93ben
efit_analysis
• http://www.allgreenrecycling.com/blog/is-recycling-cost-
effective/
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