The possibility of reparation favours the second-hand market and reuse means there is less extraction of materials and less emissions of pollutants. An example may make this more obvious. In the United States, recycling of aluminium provides twice as many jobs as the primary production of this metal. Recycling provides more jobs than dumping or incineration, and these jobs are becoming consolidated. On the other hand, incineration generates many temporary jobs for the construction of new plants, but they are then lost.
Recycling is also more economical as it needs less capital.
Recycling metals means that extraction can be reduced and less damage is done to the natural surroundings . Increased recycling reduces places of work in the extraction industry, but this work tends to be highly mechanised and offer few jobs. On the other hand, people employed there can adapt to the field of recycling. The forestry sector is also being affected by a conversion. Forests are an important reserve of biodiversity and resources and their indiscriminate exploitation is a waste of reserves.