What are the long term consequences of not recycling?
1. Recycling, reusing & reducing all help to make limited resources last longer. Hydrocarbons (crude oil and it’s by-products) is a limited resource: ‘we’ have already taken out & used up more than half of all the known oil reserves. Another example of a “scarce resource” is places to put our waste. Once a week your household garbage gets taken away and put into ‘land fill’. Land fill just means ‘big holes in the ground’ that ‘we’ dump our rubbish into. We have filled up most of the landfill areas already and if we are going to keep using ‘landfill’ as the most common way of getting rid of household rubbish, then we will very soon run out of palces to ‘get rid of’ rubbish. What we do with the rubbish after ‘we’ fill up all th eholes will be much more expensive and will use a lot more energy. ‘We’ are also starting to run low of the sort of energy ‘we’ use for this task.
