One of the most immediate recycling challenges today is to educate consumers about the benefits of buying products made from recycled materials.
Manufacturing is driven by the marketplace.
Buying recycled content products creates long-term markets for recyclable materials and increases recycling program revenues. If demand exists for recycled content products, manufacturers will produce recycled products. By making products with recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to drill for oil, dig for minerals, and harvest trees. When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into landfills, so landfill space is saved. The recycling process creates more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.