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Waste Management Overview

By recycling paper, cardboard, metals, plastics and glass, and by composting food or plant wastes, you can keep useful products out of landfills and incinerators and also reduce the harmful environmental impacts associated with the extraction of natural resources, including oil spills, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and water pollution. Choosing products manufactured from recycled content -- such as paper -- also helps reduce the burden of pollution from virgin resource extraction and processing.