Everyone Can Benefit from Recycling Services

Apr 14

Guest Contributor: Richard Roberts, Schambs Property Management

The amount of waste that humans generate every year is surging. According to the World Bank, the United States contributes about 12% of the world’s trash. We are expecting that global waste will triple by 2100. With a steady rise in the amount of garbage generated every year, there is an urgent need to engage in measures to reduce it. The good news is that in 2020, the recycling industry helped reduce solid waste going to landfills by up to 16%.

Whether you are a homeowner or managing a property, your household and tenants contribute to this waste. However, you can help reduce the negative impacts and gain benefits from recycling. Recycling has positive effects on everyone–homeowners, property managers, tenants and the community.

It helps to boost your earning potential

There is an old saying that “one man’s trash is another man‘s treasure.“ That‘s true, especially when it concerns recycling. What you see as waste can often generate income if you recycle it. In addition, recyclable material provides the community with tremendous benefits.

Manufacturers or processors who want to create products for less money can buy these recyclable materials from you. It is a win-win situation because you earn money while the company saves money.

When you implement green practices, you can also benefit from tax credits. As a homeowner or property manager, this can become an extra source of income. Tax credits can be an incentive for individuals or communities to make green changes. One way to tap into these incentives is by recycling.

Create more green jobs

The recycling industry is growing as the amount of waste keeps increasing. For communities that invest in recycling services, green jobs have potential to grow. Data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010 showed that there were 3.1 million green jobs in the United States. Green jobs do not end at waste collection services. That includes recycling and that often happens behind the scenes.

After collection, recyclable items can be sorted out and transformed into materials that people can reuse. Manufacturers can purchase these materials and use them to make new products. The process has several steps, including collection, transportation, processing, and manufacturing. All these steps require workers.

Create sustainable, recycled energy

Recycling services typically involve converting trash into new products, but that is not the only option. For materials that cannot be recycled, the recycling industry can often use them to generate electricity. The non-hazardous trash can be incinerated to create steam, used to produce electricity. As a result, these materials help generate power. This process of putting garbage to beneficial use is known as waste-to-energy recycling.

It helps you to save money

You can also save money when you recycle your waste. When you recycle items and keep them out of your trash, you divert solid waste from the landfills to the recycling services. That can reduce the amount of money you spend on garbage collection.

This can have an impact on everyone. You can reduce the amount of material that goes in to landfills. This helps the environment. Businesses save money on production and packaging, communities preserve their energy or natural resources, and the local economy gets a boost.

When companies save money, they can pass that savings down to consumers. As a result, there can be a full cycle of financial and environmental impact.

Reduce the impact on the community

When most solid waste breaks down, it releases toxins that can contaminate the groundwater, waterways and soil. All these can harm the environment. In addition, the production of virgin material consumes energy and pollutes the environment through carbon emissions.

Recycling can help protect the waterways, control leaking toxins, shrink construction and demolition waste volume and help keep the community healthy. This is done through the proper collection and recovery of materials. As a result, companies can reduce their involvement in the mining or processing of virgin materials in the community. You can help protect your community by recycling!

The bottom line

There is a need to create a sustainable environment for everyone. We can not overemphasize how beneficial recycling can be. As a homeowner or property manager, you can earn or save more money by engaging in recycling services.

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