Recycling and its role in reducing costs and achieving sustainability

Abstract

Although the recycling of industrial waste leads to achieving sustainable development of reducing the use of materials from nature, also ridding the environment of harmful waste, the controversy still exists regarding the economics of this process. After the first and second world wars, the idea of recycling began, where countries were suffering from a severe shortage of some basic materials. This encouraged her to recycle the waste and use it again. As a result of the increased consumption of resources, it is necessary to find alternatives characterized by quality, as well as being of lower cost and achieving sustainability. So, the following questions will be discussed to reduce costs and achieve sustainability, Does the waste recycling process achieve cost reduction? Does the waste recycling process achieve environmental improvement through cleaner production and sustainability? Among the most important of these alternatives are reused of waste and how to reduce the cost of recycling and benefit from it in achieve environmental efficiency for products. The waste recycling process achieves a reduction in production costs, the process of waste recycling achieves environmental improvement and sustainability. As waste is characterized as inexhaustible because a person cannot stop consuming. The research aims to achieve reducing the cost of waste recycling in industrial companies and achieving sustainability for the purpose of achieving environmental efficiency for industrial products as a result of technological change and the use of waste recycling by reducing production costs as well as using statistical analysis through questionnaires distributed to specialists in universities, laboratories and Environmental department to reach results that can be benefited from environmental improvement by reducing the cost of recycling waste as an economic resource and achieving cleaner production to produce environmentally friendly products. The results of the research were analyzed using the (SPSS) statistical program, where the results of the research indicated a cost reduction and thus achieving sustainability by preserving the environment as a result of producing environmentally friendly products. The most important recommendations were to recycle waste as an alternative energy, as it contributes to improving the environmental efficiency of products, reducing costs, achieving cleaner production and environmental improvement. It also contributes to the process of disposing of toxic waste in a healthy manner at a lower cost and achieving economic returns, as well as helping to provide job opportunities and reduce the unemployment rate.