What are the Advantages of Recycling?

ADVANTAGES: - saves most energy - reduces the impact on the environment. - fewer quarries and mines needed to extract finite reserves of metal ores - less crude oil needs to be extracted from the crust as a raw material for making plastics - less energy is needed for recycling compared with making a new product from natural resources, so the emission of greenhouse gases is reduced - amount of waste that is disposed of in landfill is reduced