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Tip 1: Start Recycling
Recycling is the easiest, most impactful way to quickly and easily reduce your carbon footprint. Plus, you might be able to make a little bit of cash when you recycle certain items.
Junk items that can be recycled are typically made from metal, glass or plastic. The production of each of these materials is responsible for releasing harmful emissions into our atmosphere.
There are five major steps to production: Raw material extraction & processing, raw material transport, production process, transport of finished goods and end-of-life management.
Recycling eliminates two of the worst, most detrimental steps in the production cycle – raw material extraction/processing and raw material transport.
❓Did you know…? Mining and processing raw materials contributes to half of our global emissions. Recycling everyday household items cuts that number drastically.
Recycling reduces the need for the production of new materials. This includes the work that goes into mining and processing, as well as the production of materials like plastic and glass.
Think of all the gas that’s burned by the machines digging, scooping, mining and hauling. It’s tremendous! Recycling also cuts out the need for those raw materials to be transported from the source to numerous manufacturing plants across the country, which is another gigantic source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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