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Have we recycled enough? No! And the answer is we haven’t. Just to make things crystal clear recycling is the process of re-using waste material to turn them into new products or products that serve a similar purpose. Yes! We as proud owners of this beautiful and bountiful planet are doing our bit. But is it enough to get us through what is yet to come? Our ever-increasing population with new babies being brought into the world every few seconds is definitely not the way to go. Neither is buying or hogging on ready to eat food; the packaging of which today creates one of the biggest pile-ups at landfills. Plastics are here to stay and the only way to get them back is with the help of the right initiatives imposed by the bodies that run the system. Plastics are the bottleneck of the recycling system. How many of us today on a daily basis actually separate plastic from regular garbage or trash? We are the reason why plastic exists in our lives – we are the only beings on this planet that consume it – there is absolutely no home or apartment out there, which utilizes a minimum of at least 20 plastic items in them. The answer to completely take out plastics from the system was there with us all along – it’s just that we ignored it – turning to an

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Unlike plastics, metals can be sold to scrap metal recyclers at a price; a factor which alone ensures that cans made of aluminium or tin do not end up in trash to begin with. Even if a single family out there completely eradicates plastics and replaces the same items at home with metals, they will actually get back in return a quarter of the money that was spent on buying those appliances, furniture or food containers that was asked during the purchase. Metals

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Have we recycled enough?

No! And the answer is we haven’t. Just to make things crystal clear recycling is the process of re-using waste material to turn them into new products or products that serve a similar purpose.

Yes! We as proud owners of this beautiful and bountiful planet are doing our bit. But is it enough to get us through what is yet to come? Our ever-increasing population with new babies being brought into the world every few seconds is definitely not the way to go. Neither is buying or hogging on ready to eat food; the packaging of which today creates one of the biggest pile-ups at landfills. Plastics are here to stay and the only way to get them back is with the help of the right initiatives imposed by the bodies that run the system.

Plastics are the bottleneck of the recycling system. How many of us today on a daily basis actually separate plastic from regular garbage or trash? We are the reason why plastic exists in our lives – we are the only beings on this planet that consume it – there is absolutely no home or apartment out there, which utilizes a minimum of at least 20 plastic items in them.

The answer to completely take out plastics from the system was there with us all along – it’s just that we ignored it – turning to an option that was cheaper to produce. Metals are the answer to the plastic’s unstructured recycling channels because they simply have too many advantages when it comes to recycling making them more popular.

Unlike plastics, metals can be sold to scrap metal recyclers at a price; a factor which alone ensures that cans made of aluminium or tin do not end up in trash to begin with. Even if a single family out there completely eradicates plastics and replaces the same items at home with metals, they will actually get back in return a quarter of the money that was spent on buying those appliances, furniture or food containers that was asked during the purchase. Metals simply make for a more reliable option when it comes to recycling; take the humble aluminium beverage can. It takes just two months for an aluminium can to come back to a supermarket’s

shelf after the contents in it have been consumed and that too with just 5% of the energy; compared to a plastic alternative which will most probably end up in a landfill simply because it has no value.

But ‘today’ poses and even greater threat for ‘tomorrow’ and that is mainly because of human behaviour. We are all to blame. Scrap metal recyclers in Dubai like the Lucky Group, have been doing the environment and us a favour for years on end. They have recycled tonnes of metal which have been segregated and piled up for re-use as raw products or feedstock by manufacturers. But there is only so much that they can do, and that is to find the metals and make the right provisions for them.

The bottom line is that we are at fault and we need to find a way to correct ourselves before it is too late!

The Lucky Group is one of the largest metal trading companies in the UAE. They have interests in scrap metal recycling as well as in secondary and semi-primary aluminium alloy manufacturing. To know more about the Lucky Group and their quality metal products, kindly visit them online at: www.luckygroup.com