Climate change is an ongoing crisis that refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, which produces heat-trapping gasses.
According to North Carolina Environmental Quality, implementing sustainability and the three Rs, decrease the generation of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide and methane. They achieve these benefits in two ways:
Help save energy in the processing of materials for industrial and consumer use
Reduce the flow of materials, especially food and other organic wastes into landfills where anaerobic decomposition produces methane.
Every time a new product is made from raw materials, large amounts of energy are consumed. Energy plays a role in the four stages of product development: extraction of raw materials, the manufacture of these materials into products, product use by consumers, and product disposal. In most cases, recycling uses less energy, which translates into fewer fossil fuels burned and reduced emissions of greenhouse gasses that contribute to climate change.
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In addition, the recycling of metals can be a powerful way to save energy. For example, using recycled aluminum scraps to make aluminum cans takes 95 percent less energy than making aluminum cans from bauxite ore, the raw material used to produce aluminum.
In conclusion, recycling materials around your house contributes to saving energy and avoiding the waste of useful materials, contributing to the world and preventing global warming from getting worse.
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