Recycling and the circular economy

The life cycle was safe before the arrival of humans. Plants, animals, and materials reproduce in nature, yet there are no landfills to bury them. Any waste can be used as nourishment by another organism. The sun provides energy for creatures to flourish and then convert into nutrients for the soil in a safe manner.

However, the presence of humans hastened the destabilization of life. It harvests natural resources, processes them, and then discards them.

Always keep an eye out for new gadgets and get rid of old ones. This strategy jeopardizes limited natural resources and generates hazardous waste. Because electronic trash does not biodegrade, it was vital to maintain the precious metals and polymer cycles, as well as the qualities contained inside them, after they had reached their end of life.

By creating items and changing packaging so that it may be recycled and put to greater use, our waste will gain value rather than lose it. Products are redesigned such that they can be disassembled and reconditioned via take-back, repair, and recycling procedures so that today’s things become tomorrow’s resources. The circular economy is what we call it.

The good news is that we have begun to use this method of working and thinking in the Recycling service company. We believe, we have a unique opportunity to open new horizons and destinations where the environment and the economy intersect to secure a sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.

The Difference Between Reusable Vs. Disposable

The demands dynamics in the 21st century are driven by ease of use. The easier a product or good is to use, the more it will sell. The ease of use offered by disposable products in the form of packaging material carry bags, cutlery, etc. accounted for raising the global demand for disposable products. However, while focusing on the ease of use and the cheap price of a disposable product, we completely overlooked the environmental impact of it.

According to a report publishes by the UN in 2019, the annual global usage of single-use plastic bags is around five trillion. That means nearly two million single-use plastic bags are used every minute across the globe. These alarming stats are not only confined to disposable products of plastic material, but disposable products which are termed as ‘ecofriendly’ are an issue of concern, too. Millions of trees are cut to produce paper bags that are used up in a single year by one country.

Now, you must be wondering what type of products should you go for? The answer is reusable products. To help you understand how reusable products induce minimum damage to the environment, we have compared them with disposable products based on the following factors:

●      Carbon Footprints and Emissions:

Carbon Footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere to carry out a particular activity. In this case, a carbon footprint is the number of resources and energy utilized to produce these products.

To your surprise, the carbon footprint of HDPE (High-density polythene) is less than that of paper bags and reusable bags. But, since on average a person uses thousands of plastic or paper bags in their lifetime, the low carbon footprint is compensated by high demand, leading to the carbon footprint through single-use products being more than that of a reusable product. Whereas, if you choose to use a reusable product to its full capacity, you will be able to bring down your carbon footprint.

●      Cost benefits:

Reusable products are a one-time investment that goes as long as you wish to maintain it. The cost at the time of purchase is more than that of a single-use product, but you do not need to make a purchase every time you require the product since the product is reusable, you can use it multiple times. In the long run, reusable products are, therefore, more cost-effective than single-use products.

In addition to this, once you are through with a single-use product, it needs to be disposed of. The cost of disposing of a product is high which peaks up further based on the material of the product. Whereas, in the case of a reusable product, even after utilizing the product to its full capacity, the cost of recycling or laundering the product is much lower than the cost of disposing of a single-use product.

Apart from these major benefits, reusable products help us in generating a lesser amount of waste, preserve natural resources and energy while helping us control the emission of harmful substances in the atmosphere. It is now up to us to make conscious choices to preserve the environment.

Recycling Services is a firm that provides waste management services in Oman, has already made this conscious choice a while back. Adding more to this, they will be introducing a wide range of reusable products soon.

Recycling and global changes

The world is going through many changes and challenges in all fields and levels. The environmental sector occupies great interest by governments, organizations, societies, and individuals at the global level because of its great impact on human life and the sustainability of the planet on which we all live in.

In recent decades, the environmental sector has formed a lot of concerns and many effects that have led to the emergence and exacerbation of problems like global warming and emitted gases and rise on sea level as a result of many industrial practices that led to a rise in gases emitted into the air and an increase in the proportion of many problems and challenges that began to affect directly and indirectly on human life.

Many countries now are working on innovating and formulating effective solutions to these environmental challenges. Waste recycling comes as one of these effective solutions because it has a significant impact on reducing the percentage of waste that goes to landfills which is dealt with in a traditional way, which leads to significant negative effects, and plays an important role in the sector. Recycling reduces these effects by working on diverting the largest possible amount of waste and converting it into recycled raw materials that are capable of being remanufactured. This sector has constituted a strong and distinguished economic circle, as well as enhanced the culture of the circular economy significantly at the global level, as well as reducing the general waste of materials and creating economic and social value For this waste in general.

Recently, an increase in recycling projects and factories has begun and has become an integrated industrial and economic system that enhances economic mobility in countries as well as preserves raw materials and reduces general waste of materials, which led to a high percentage of practitioners of this general culture and products made of recycled materials around the world. Products made from recycled materials which have good quality.