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The Myth of Recycling - Coggle Diagram
The Myth of Recycling
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Recycling materials
Worth recycling: Cardboards, papers, metals and plastics
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According to E.P.A, more than 90% of greenhouse gases just come from a few materials: paper, cardboard and aluminium in soda cabs. Once you exclude these materials, the total annual savings in the US from recycling everything else is only two-tenths of 1percent of America's carbon footprint.
Defenders opinion
- Unfair to rush to judgement
- modern recycling movement had just begun a few years earlier
Recycling methods
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New methods: 1) modern incinerator, release few pollutants 2) modern well-lines landfill in rural area, capture greenhouse gases and use it to generate electricity