Recycling

Recycling refers to the process of treating used or waste materials to enable their reuse for new products.

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It is a treatment process.
Recycling helps to reduce the need for landfills and hence reducing the pollution associated with them. Recycling may be costly and energy intensive, and may be not environment friendly or worker friendly.
It enables reuse of used materials.
Recycling helps to reduce the speed of depletion of natural resources.  Recycling may be limited or may be not possible or cost effective for certain materials. 

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