Buy Recycled Products

Why Buy Recycled Products?

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Buying recycled products helps ‘close the loop’, creating a demand for the materials recovered by recycling collection schemes.

For recycling to work, there needs to be markets for the products made with recycled materials.

Buying recycled products helps ‘close the loop’, creating a demand for the materials recovered by recycling collection schemes. For recycling to work, there needs to be markets for the products made with recycled materials.

Buying recycled helps keep reusable material in the economy, reduces waste needing to be landfilled and conserves resources, particularly energy.

Many products contain recycled materials as part of the normal manufacturing process.

These include certain types of packaging, such as glass jars, and steel or aluminium cans.

There are also products where the buyer can choose a recycled product in preference to one made entirely of virgin material, such as copying paper or kitchen towels. Read on…