Recycling creates jobs
The process of recycling and composting, from kerbside collection to the sorting and reprocessing of recyclables, creates more jobs than incineration and landfill. There is still a huge potential for growth in the reprocessing sector, particularly in areas with strong manufacturing industry.
Studies have estimated (conservatively) that for every tone recycled 5.9 jobs are created. This figure doesn’t include supplementary jobs also created down the line, which have been estimated as one additional job for every position created at the reprocessing stage. Lt has also been suggested that recycling newspapers creates three times as many jobs as incinerating them and 9 new jobs could be created per 1000 tonnes recycled in kerbside collection and sorting schemes.