What is recycling? What is the main problems when we don’t recycle for now and future? how to encourage people to sort their waste?

In everyday life, human produces a range of household waste that is dumped in special places and no one uses them. As it is known, after the processes of agricultural production it results a large amount of reusable by-products. Many of  them have economic value and can be used as a source of biogas (biomethane).

Biogas is made from agro wastes, forestry or animal waste as a result of fermentative activities of anaerobic microorganisms (bacteria).In order to obtain biogas, waste is mixed with large amounts of anaerobic microorganisms in the complete lack of air. In these conditions bacteria are developping very well and are able to convert organic waste into methane and carbon dioxide.

Some materials that apparently are no longer useful could be recycled (re-manufactured). Objects of metal, paper, glass, plastic and others can be recycled. This recycling would help save some plants, animals or  materials for manufacturing. For example, paper materials are used once and then are discarded. But if they are recycled there would be no need to use plants to make the paper.

Plastic Recycling plays a role in the relief of the earth to be polluted as plastics degrade in about 100 years and it no longer requires material for plastic to be extracted. By recycling, plastic does not cease, as with glass and metal materials.

Recently, I have read an article which reported on the issue of generating electricity that much of the UK waste should be simply burned. Burning waste instead of transporting them at a distance of up to 4,800 km for recycling, would have a much smaller impact on global warming.

Each year over 200,000 British stores tons of recyclables. Because of excessive demands from the UK and due to insufficient capacity of recycling, thousands of tonnes of recyclable materials are transported to China. In some places in the UK, people have to sort their waste into more than 7 containers, including those for food waste.

Suggestion was that electricity to be produced through combustion of waste but not through recycling process.