Advantages of Recycling

The recycling of plastics brings some social and economic benefits to the society, highlighting the following:

• Reducing the volume of garbage collected that is removed to a landfill site, providing increased of life and lower costs of transport;
• economy of energy and oil, because plastics are derived from petroleum;
• create jobs, With reduction of social pressure;
• lower prices for the consumer of products produced with recycled plastic;
• notable improvements in the process of decomposition of organic material in landfills because the plastic waterproof layers of the material decomposed, hampering the movement of gases and liquids;
• contribution to the reduction of environmental degradation as a whole and forests, in particular, to replace wood and paper.

(source: http://www.ipt.br/atividades/inovacao/exemplos/plastico/definicao/ )