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Recycling Waste, Creating Jobs Nov16

Recycling Waste, Creating Jobs

Environmental Issues – Green: the color of envy, the color of money, and now the color associated with creating new jobs. According to a new report, “Less Pollution, More Jobs,” if Americans recycle more it would not only reduce pollution, but it will also create up to 2.3 million jobs by 2030. Because recycling is more labor intensive than simply collecting disposed trash, by increasing “the nation’s recycling rate from 33% to 75%” it will result in the creation of new job positions in areas such as “collecting, processing, and composting trash as well as making new products with recycled...