Contribute to saving the planet

The single biggest mission of Global Recycling Day 2018, March 18, is to raise awareness regarding the importance of recycling.

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Climate change is the major, overriding, environmental issue of our time and the recycling industry is at the heart of the change that is needed to combat its devastating effects. Recycling saves more CO2 emissions each year than are generated by the entire aviation industry, while simultaneously protecting the earth’s valuable natural resources.

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Introducing the seventh resource

We all know the six major natural resources on the planet: water, air, coal, oil, natural gas and minerals. Now, recyclables have joined them, as the world’s seventh resource.

Without recycling, all our used and discarded fridges, plastic bottles, packing boxes, cars, cell phones and paper cups will contribute to the growing waste mountains, to be incinerated or go to landfill – never to be used again. Without recycling, we have no option but to continue stripping the earth of finite virgin resources.

The future of our planet’s environmental wellbeing is too important not to be a global concern.

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