Why is it important to recycle waste correctly?

Recycling is one of the simplest activities that we can be part of in our daily lives, with the aim of reducing the overexploitation of natural resources and mainly air and water pollution, but there are many more reasons why we should approach recycling as a healthy habit, for the environment and for our planet as a whole!

Saving energy and fighting climate change

    • By recycling we minimize the need for virgin raw materials reducing energy consumption.
    • The lower CO2 pollution in the atmosphere increases the dreaded greenhouse effect and its negative influence on skin diseases (hole in the ozone layer) and on climate change.
    • Cleaner atmosphere and better air quality, a determining element when it comes to mitigating, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) indications, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
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Use of fewer virgin materials

    • Saving virgin raw materials such as trees, minerals, oil, water, deforestation to create fields for cultivation, etc. etc.

    In this way we will cause a double benefit for the environment, on the one hand saving and optimizing natural resources as reflected in these examples:

    • Trees, the great regulators of our atmosphere through the nocturnal filtering of CO2 and the diurnal emission of oxygen.
    • The water needed to grow textile fibers.
    • The very expensive extraction of minerals needed to produce metal alloys, textile fibers for clothing, plastic or glass pots, etc. etc.

    And on the other hand, the defense of the planet by protecting its atmosphere by preserving the ozone layer to protect it from and also acting against the erosion of the land that ends up causing desertification or dangerous landslides.

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Possibility of creating new products with less environmental impact

Behind recycling there is a whole industry for the intelligent creation of new increasingly ecological developments, promoting the development of different technologies that help each day more to obtain more friendly products with the environment that surrounds us.

Plastic bottles that are transformed into containers to preserve the hygiene, quality and durability of food. Textile fibers for the manufacture of jackets, pants and coats. Industrial filters, brooms and other household utensils.

Automobiles and other scrap that become raw materials such as metal plates and panels, beams for structures, urban or domestic furniture, lubricants and industrial fuels, containers, drums, barrels and a long etc. of everyday products.

Preservation of our green planet

    The waste generated during the production of the different products (dyes, chemical additives, liquid, solid or gaseous waste) and its subsequent destruction by incineration or its abandonment in the environment are seriously polluting the atmosphere, rivers, seas, aquifers and diminishing consequently, the natural habitat of man and other species that coexist on the planet.

    When we recycle we are helping to regenerate the environment in a decisive and direct way:

    • The air is less polluted by reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
    • By reducing the amount of our waste we protect our soils, our rivers, our seas and the air we breathe.
    • Reusing our organic waste (food waste, vegetable waste, waste from livestock, etc. etc.) by composting we avoid the abuse of chemical fertilizers.
    • We also protect the aquifers, being water without polluting a vital resource and an increasingly scarce asset.

Enhancement of economic activity and creation of wealth

Recycling implies the creation of many new jobs which is especially important in this era of automation where any initiative for job creation is fundamental for our present and future social development.