RECYCLING: AN ESSENTIAL AND GROWING PROCESS
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FIGURE 12.20 Recycling is essential to sustaining economic productivity over the long term. One way to encourage recycling by consumers is to provide collection centers in convenient places. From such locations, materials to be recycled are generally transported to a sorting center.
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