Recycling and Climate Change

Recycling & Climate Change

Recycling Saves Energy | Recycling Reduces Greenhouse Gases | Why Now? | Statistics | Resources

According to many scientists and environmentalists, climate change is occurring at a dangerous pace. Whereas we cannot refute the evidence gathered to support this claim, the real debate is whether human activity has played a key role in the rise of global warming.

With the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, we have relied on the burning of fossil fuels for energy, releasing many harsh chemicals into the atmosphere. The widespread use of automobiles, the extraction of oil for fuel and the burning of refined gas have been a high source of extra carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air. These are commonly known human contributions to the rise of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. What many do not know is that municipal solid waste is also a culprit in the case of climate change, and recycling can help.