- recycling,
- organic gardening,
- biodiversity,
- home food gardens and
- a desire to live more in harmony with nature
WHY RECYCLE?
Re-using plastic bags, making compost or recycling bottles make a difference to the environment.
HOW?
• It saves landfill space, reducing the need for new landfill areas (which tends to displace people and wildlife) and saves the cost of transporting waste.
• Non-degradable plastics (such as bottles and bags) wash into rivers and the sea, and kill fish, other sea life, birds and wildlife, either by strangulation or by starvation (they ingest the plastic and starve to death).
• The less paper, plastic, glass and metal we use, the less demand there is for industry to make them. This cuts down on the need for power generation and transport (and thus fuel consumption)
• Most importantly – it cuts down on air pollution, water pollution, Pollution in general.
• It saves landfill space, reducing the need for new landfill areas (which tends to displace people and wildlife) and saves the cost of transporting waste.
• Non-degradable plastics (such as bottles and bags) wash into rivers and the sea, and kill fish, other sea life, birds and wildlife, either by strangulation or by starvation (they ingest the plastic and starve to death).
• The less paper, plastic, glass and metal we use, the less demand there is for industry to make them. This cuts down on the need for power generation and transport (and thus fuel consumption)
• Most importantly – it cuts down on air pollution, water pollution, Pollution in general.
Recycling is a key component of modern
waste reduction. So please, let’s all make a concerted effort to re-cycle, if
you haven’t started, please do so NOW!
Source:
www.thegardener.co.za
www.thegardener.co.za
