Who invented recycling?
The truth is that advent of recycling cannot be attributed to any one person. Some have argued that recycling was established from necessity. Around 10,000 BCE, garbage became an issue as humans established permanent settlements. Thousands of years later (approximately 400 BCE), the first municipal dump was established in Athens, Greece. Romans created the first sanitation force around 200 CE, which was made up of two men who walked the city streets loading garbage into a wagon. It wasn’t until 1388 that the English Parliament declared it unlawful to dispose of waste in public streets. Over time, numerous products have been invented — as we have become more technologically-advanced) — that ultimately serve to drain and pollute the environment. Paper, plastics and metals are the three main recycling categories. These also happen to be the source of most of the non-chemical pollution on earth. Other products, such as Styrofoam, are not only wasteful, but toxic. Many companies have elim
mother nature, she recycles everything, she takes ground water evaporates it then turns it into fresh water in the form of rain. Insects recycle all waste into nutrients to feed plants, who recycle co2 into oxygen and sunlight into food. You could also say the dinosaurs were recycled into oil. Modern man has been recycling since the begining of time, unused food into compost, trees into furniture into fire, sand into glass, broken tools were remelted and made into something new. The idea of throwing things away is pretty new.
