Why recycle?

There are many benefits of recycling – at home, in the community and at work. How we handle waste is serious business and it’s everyone’s responsibility. The goal is to send zero waste to landfill that can be recovered. The best way to achieve this is for everyone to create less waste and recycle as much as we can thereby targeting the tagline “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”.

There are many benefits of choosing to recycle which includes the following.

• Sending our waste to landfill is a waste of resources and can create problems.
• Making new products and packaging from recycled materials uses fewer natural resources. It also encourages innovation and creates new jobs in the recycling industry.
• Reducing the amount of waste generated saves the ACT money in collecting, transporting and sorting. As a community we can better use this money for other services.
• Less waste means reduced need to extract, refine and process raw materials, which in turn reduces water and air pollution and protect natural habitats.