Q.How does recycling help reduce pollution?

Solid waste management deals with everything discarded as trash — municipal solid waste from homes, offices, shops, schools and hospitals, typically comprising paper, food waste, plastics, glass, metals, rubber, leather and textiles. Traditional disposal by open burning or open dumping is problematic (incomplete combustion, breeding grounds for rats and flies), and even sanitary landfills — where compacted waste is buried and covered with soil daily — are running out of capacity as waste generation rises, while also risking groundwater contamination from chemical seepage. …