♻️ DID YOU KNOW: RECYCLING IS A MANUFACTURING PROCESS ♻️
Sometimes recycling can feel like magic - making new items out of old ones. In reality, recycling is a form of manufacturing, as it involves collecting, processing, and transforming waste materials into new products. This process utilizes machinery and techniques similar to traditional manufacturing, but instead of extracting raw materials, recycling repurposes materials that were discarded.
When we remember that recycling is a manufacturing process, we can better understand why contamination is such a problem. Just as you wouldn't want contamination in other manufacturing (such as the manufacturing of car parts or the manufacturing of food containers), contamination in recycling is also problematic.
The best material for manufacturing is clean and well sorted, free from anything that shouldn't be in the mix. You can help keep the manufacturing process of recycling run at its best - and get the most revenue back from your recyclables - by making sure you ONLY recycle items that CAN be recycled (no more wish-cycling for you!) and by recycling consistently. And when in doubt, THROW IT OUT!
Learn more about Manufacturing and Recycling: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/importance-recycling-reusing-manufacturing-process-axionray-pqryf/
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