What Does the Future Have to Hold for Recycling?

In 2050, there will be technological changes that benefit the environment throughout the world, including management and recycling.  Recycling has become a more controversial topic throughout the United States in the past four years to make a more positive impact on the environment and in landfills, including multiple organizations to change the way that we recycle.

Begin With the Bin is an organization that is trying to make a positive impact on the recycling management and what our recycling resources will look like in 2050.  With all of the new ideas and technologies that make plastic and other items reusable, it makes our environment more friendly and safe.

Ways that people can help organizations, like Begin With the Bin, is continue to put the recyclable products into the correct bins versus just throwing away all of the trash and cans in the same trash can for the garbage men to pick up.

For a better recycling program, changes have to be made.  According to Begin With the Bin, “ In 1968, there were only two curbside programs (in Madison, Wisconsin, and San Francisco, California), and they only collected newspaper.” Since then there have been positive changes.  According to Begin With the Bin, “According to the EPA, as of 2010, there were 9,066 curbside programs in the U.S., serving 70 percent of the population.” There change in curbside programs have made recycling more realistic and a lot easier for consumers who purchase the plastic being recycled.

I believe that in 2050 the recycling programs will be a lot more technologically savvy to help the environment, with new innovative technologies like new biodegradable products and ways to recycle plastics more efficiently.

The interesting part of recycling programs is that people have to think of new ways for society to conserve and reduce plastic use in every way possible to help the environment. I think that in the future there will be a lot of interesting, new technologies that will be able to help sustain the recycling goal that organizations have set into place, like biodegradable products and new plastics being researched.  There will be various items in the future that will help change the way that we recycle our plastic products and in how we reproduce items for consumers to use.  There may be things that will help the recycling process become faster and more efficient in the use of technology and to help the environment.

In 2050, I believe that there will be multiple different ways to choose on how each individual recycles but it is up to the person to choose how they do it, instead of the government forcing the people to do it.  The government enforcing us to recycling will make us not want to, we have to be able to want to ourselves to recycle and help the environment on our own time and with our own talents and resources.

Citations:

http://beginwiththebin.org
“Green Point Average.” Green Point Average. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. http://www.beginwiththebin.org/greenpointaverage/?page_id=11