Comment Is Free, Facts Are Sacred

By Author: Guna Seelan
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What is the actual difference between a comment and a fact? A comment is one's opinion about a thing, while a fact is the truth or reality. Here are some comments of people about recycling and their realities:

- COMMENT: We have lot of landfills, then why should we waste our time in recycling the waste?

FACT: While seeing this comment the great old saying comes into mind, Thank God men can't fly and lay waste in the sky as in Earth. First let's understand clearly that recycling does not only reduce the landfill usage. Recycling conserves natural resources, reduces pollution, and reduces usage of energy. More technical, as organic matter in the disposal sites breakdown, it releases methane, a green house gas. By recycling we reduce the green house gases.

- COMMENT: Ugly recycle bins hamper the beauty of the city.

FACT: Nowadays recycle bins come in all shapes and sizes. Some look funny too. Some look like rabbits, some like kangaroos. Kangaroo in city, sounds good. Without these recycle bins the whole city will be a junk yard.

- COMMENT: Paper is easily bio-degradable and scrap paper won't ...
... yield a great value in cash. So better throw it in a dustbin and walk off?

FACT: A business that makes nothing but money alone is poor business. One tonne of recycled paper saves 17 trees, 7000 gallons of water, and 4100 kilo watts of energy and three cubic yards of landfill. So is recycling of paper worthy?

- COMMENT: We don't even have enough time to drink beer and watch television. How could we spare time to collect the scrap all around, and help in recycling?

FACT: More aluminium is used to produce beverage cans than any other product. Waste aluminium-can will be turned into a new usable one in just six weeks. Recycling one aluminium can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. And the important fact is 350,000 cans are produced per minute!

- COMMENT: Finally I don't know what to do with the collected scrap.

FACT: There are recycle bins in every city where the scrap can be deposited. Scrap collected in homes will be collected by local vendors and we can get money out of scrap. Speaking about large scale, there are many websites that promote sales of scrap metal in the world market.

CONCLUSION:

Definitely facts are important than comments. Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.

Guna Seelan works for recycleinme.com, the Scrap and recycle marketplace for metal scrap, plastic scrap, electronic scrap, paper scrap and other recyclables.