Recycling – The Step towards Sustainability
Recycling is the process of the eliminating waste deposition and reusing the end-of-life products to the maximum extent as possible. Recycling waste is the only way to achieve zero waste to landfill.
In the world of creating waste, there’s no prior process to enable recycling operation. Recycling the waste preserves more energy and conserves planet’s finite resources. Waste creation is everywhere but recycling waste is only some where. Utilizing the resources from waste not only saves energy but also improvises the socio-economic status of the country.
Dumping Waste is not the right solution
Simply creating waste and dumping is not the right solution.
We’re already running out of land space for people to live. Then, What’s the point in dumping the waste all over the land? The 21st century is facing an ecological conundrum with waste landfills occupying vast amounts of space.
Almost 63% of the waste that ends up in landfills can be recycled.
Out of all the plastic bottles produced only 27% of the plastic bottles are recycled.
Recycling one glass bottle can light up a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours and a fluorescent bulb for 20 hours.
In India, more than 6 million tonnes of plastic waste go Unrecycled every year.
Plastic Recycling is Essential
Plastic waste is not a problem only the unrecycled plastic waste dumped into the lands are.
Recycling is the only option left, it’s essential and vital to bring back the unutilized resource back to usage. Recycling plastic helps in preserving one-third of the natural resources from being depleted.
Plastic recycling saves upto 2X energy when compared to incineration.
More than 66% of energy saved from manufacturing plastics from recyclable materials rather than the raw materials.
In India, out of all collected plastic bottles, only 27% of plastic bottles are recycled.
Recycling rate of paper is less than 30%, plastic is 55-60% and for metal it’ss 25%.
Indian recycling rates are a way lower with several reasons.Neither there is no proper social aware among the people on recycling, collection of waste in India is mainly unorganzied and not systematic, still waste collection and segregation is followed in an unscientific and improper proceedings.
E-waste Recycling
31.6% rise in E-waste generation in India in the FY21-22. E-waste generation in India has increases a lot with respect to the rivaled population growth, socio-economic condition and consumption.
E-waste recycling treatment is a major challenge due to its highly toxic and hazardous nature. Majority of the E-waste comprises of toxic chemical pollutes the land and water bodies. E-waste recycling requires various steps and procedures to be followed.
Apart from major environmental hazards, e-waste recycling can also cause health risks to humans and the environment.There are more than 3000 nonformal recycling units operating in India.
India prodcues more than 1.8 million tonnes of E-waste around which only which 95% of the E-waste is recycled from the unorganized sector.
Recycle to reutilize the resources
Recycling one ton conserves a huge energy source to the nature.
Recycling one ton of paper can save 601 kwh of Energy
Recycling one ton of paper conserves 5774 Kwh of energy
Recycling one aluminium can save enough energy to run a television for three hours.
India has become a global hub for electronic waste and it is now the second leading e-waste generator after China. By dumping electronics at dumping grounds, industries, retail shops, and consumers contaminate our precious environment with smoke and filth.
India has become a dumping ground for electronic waste, putting not only its own environment at risk but also endangering the well being of public health.
Around the world, issues of plastic pollution are on the rise. Recent reports suggest that as many as 300 million metric tonnes of plastic waste is generated every year, more than 1 million metric tonnes of which is lost or left to leak into land, waterways, and oceans.
Recycling is an environmentally-conscious way to reuse equipment and materials from consumer discards, and reuse them again. As the amount of waste that can be recycled increases, we must also focus on how best to dispose of all the plastic out there.