Recycling is a process of taking used materials and creating new products, to reduce the amount of garbage and waste. Recycling reduces the use of fresh raw materials and reduces the amount of garbage that ends up in landfills. In the 1980's Toronto produced 3.2 million tones of garbage annually. That amount has lowered considerably since then, considering our population has grown considerably." It is expected that Toronto will send a million tones of garbage to michigan this year" (Terri Coles). According to Moira Welsh, 75 trucks full of garbage are transported each day to michigan landfill Toronto , Durham and York region have reached an agreement to end shipping in 2o10. They are afraid that this will cause even more pollution, due to the fact that 65 garbage trucks per day will travel down the 401. This will happen unless Toronto reachers its goals of 70 % recycling by the year 2021, if not the landfill will be full in 16 years. Germany has been doing very well when it comes to their garbage. They have set up a program called the Green Dot. It is not a recycling symbol but a symbol for the contribution to a national packaging recovery company. The Green Dot Program costs over 2.5 billion a year. Unlike Toronto Germany and the green dot have a special sorting system. Paper products go into the blue bins for recycling, Aluminum cans, plastics and other products go in the yellow bin. Kitchen scraps such as banana peels, and scraps go in the brown bins. This can turn into energy form the fermenting gases. Finally household products that will not decompose go into the grey bins to get incinerated.
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