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Benefits of Plastic Recycling to Save Energy and Money
There are extensive uses of plastic in everyday life. Plastics can be a raw material to produce goods, to the packaging of products we use. People resort to using plastic due to its durability. Companies use plastic as materials and packaging since they are light-weighted, which makes transportation relatively cheap.
The low weight contributes to lower energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions compared to other materials. In addition, plastic can be flexible enough to shape into any kind of products following the demand which are limitless.
However, the durability of plastic has negative impacts on the environment. They need hundreds of years to decompose into tiny pieces. These microplastics can potentially enter our food chain through the oceans as well.
Worry not! The technology nowadays could provide benefits of plastic, while reducing the bad effects by recycling. Recycled plastic has a comparable quality to virgin plastic, making numerous companies take this alternative. Recycling plastic has become a sustainable approach for businesses.
They play a significant part in trying to decrease waste amounts. So, what are the benefits of plastic recycling? How do companies repurpose plastic but still provide high-quality plastic? How can lowering ocean pollution can benefit us?
Less energy consumption to protect the nature
Recycling plastic requires less energy than creating them. The saved energy functions to produce other things that are essential to fulfill the demand. Production processes often require natural resources. These include water, oil, coal, and natural gas as raw materials.
For example, a company usually consumes 1000 liters of oil to create new plastic products. After recycling, the amount of oil they need is down to 600 liters. Recycling typically reduces oil consumption by 40%. In short, less new plastic, more energy, and resources to conserve!
By conserving natural resources, we can provide resources such as plants and animals with an undamaged food web.
Promotion of sustainable living
Sustainable living is understanding how lifestyle choices impact the world and finding improved ways for everyone to live better and lighter. Companies take crucial roles to promote sustainable living, as they are providing products to customers all around the world.
When companies initiate to encourage people by using recycled plastics, there will be a huge positive impact. We need to hand-in-hand encourage sustainable business by using eco-friendly plastic.
Reducing the amount of plastic used in daily life can start with businesses. Starting with a primary consumer that reduces the use of plastic bags. Continuing with the secondary consumers that follow, and tertiary consumers that are the future generations.
Reducing the waste
When we talk about recycling plastic, one of the top objectives is to reduce plastic waste. Plastic waste is hard to decompose and harmful to the environment. Thus, recycling is the answer to lowering the amount of plastic pollution.
Plastic recycling reduces the need to extract new raw materials from the earth such as oil. Recycling reuses plastic wastes as raw materials that are going through another processing phases. Therefore, the benefit of recycling plastic is to protect the environment.
Other than plastic, recycling paper from primary producers can reduce CO2 emissions. Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) can damage our atmosphere to trophic levels.
Lowering greenhouse gas emissions
Producing plastic emits a large amount of greenhouse gasses. Previously we have talked about how recycling plastic saves more energy. The energy consumption reduction equals the lowering amount of greenhouse gas emissions as well.
Greenhouse gas emissions are the results of extracting or mining virgin materials such as oils. Therefore, recycling plastic is really helpful in many ways, including protecting our atmosphere.
Save energy, save cash
A big power intake happens in regards to producing a large amount of plastic products. On the contrary, recycling plastic waste can powerfully reduce energy consumption. Having to reduce energy consumption means that we are preserving the resources in the environment.
As for businesses, it is more profitable to utilize recycled plastic. Rather than purchasing new plastic products or materials, recycled plastics are way more affordable. This can contribute to lowering the expenses of the company. Moreover, people can apply this in personal ways as well.
Since interest rates have been increasing, we need to have emergency funds and credit cards to save money. But in this case, businesses can cut costs by encouraging to reuse plastic.
In our company, PT. Mitra Utama Plastindo produces 80% recycled plastic. We are aware of how plastic waste can affect the environment. Understanding that, we always try to repurpose as many materials as we can, while still ensuring the quality of our products.
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