Recycling comes with multiple advantages, including the fact that recycling electronic waste, such as old computers and phones, prevents harmful chemicals from seeping into the soil in landfills. Recycling plastics reduces the demand for new petroleum, which is a non-renewable resource essential for many other industrial processes, and recycling plastics reduces energy usage by 66% compared to manufacturing new plastics from raw petrochemical materials.
List of different recyling methods includes:
1. Mechanical Recycling
2. Chemical Recycling
3. Biological Recycling
4. Thermal Recycling (Pyrolysis)
5. Upcycling
6. Downcycling
7. E-waste Recycling
8. Composting
9. Glass Recycling
10. Metal Recycling
11. Paper Recycling
12. Plastic Recycling
13. Textile Recycling
14. Rubber Recycling
15. Wood Recycling
These are some of the methods, there can be more methods of recycling.