Should Recycling Be Made Compulsory?

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Today’s world is in catastrophe. We are surrounded and attacked with issues. Global Warming, climate change, poverty, terrorism and a lot more. Our world is clearly in the state of crisis. In the wake of such problems, we take up many measures. We start recycling and reusing stuff from wastes. Especially now, recycling is being promoted. There are many things in our day-to-day life that we can recycle, but very few of us do it. It stresses the demand to make new stuff when we could clearly use the recycled stuff. For example, it is possible for people to reuse plastic bags and plastic bottles for sometime, but they clearly won’t. They just throw them and buy new plastics. These plastics are very much unlike other bio-degradable items. They do not degrade and decompose off. They remain a very big question on the issue of waste management. Which is why the use of recycling has been popularized by environmentalists and governments. Plastic covers, plastic bottles and other plastic goods can be reused. Paper can be recycled to make other things like toilet paper, tissue paper, paper cups etc. Old tyres can be recycled and reprocessed to make rubber mats and other rubber goods. Even plastic can now be reprocessed to make new plastics. There are many new technologies that enable man to easily recycle and reprocess the waste he/she generates. He/she must try his/her best to recycle. But people tend to be very reckless, indifferent and uncaring about the environment. They do not care about the undisputable garbage and wastes they create. They go on creating more and more garbage and they simply unwilling to recycle their stuff. Recycling should be made compulsory. Punishments should be enforced for not recycling. They must pay for causing excessive damage to the environment. They must be rewarded for the more they recycle. Then there will be competition for

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