Recycling can be defined as a process of converting waste materials into new, usable products. It involves collecting, sorting, cleaning, and processing discarded items like paper, plastic, metal, and glass so they can be reused in the manufacturing of new products.
Recycling offers a number of advantages. Recycling aluminum cans reduces landfill waste and saves up to 95% of the energy needed to make new aluminum from raw ore. Glass recycling conserves raw materials such as sand, soda ash, and limestone, reducing their extraction and processing and Compared to virgin materials, using recycled glass to make new glass reduces energy consumption by approximately 30%.