The Recycling ProcessRecycling was first thought of in 1776 during the English War of Independence. Americans recycled scrap metal to help fight the war. But it wasn't until 1895 that the first residential waste management program in the United States was invented in New York. The alchemy behind recycling is the idea that “everything flows”. For example, if you saved a box of cereal and put it in your recycling bin, that box of cereal can be turned into a pack of papers, a newspaper, or a box of tissues, and the possibilities are endless. Common household items recycled include newspapers and paper towels, aluminum, plastic, glass soda containers, steel cans, and plastic laundry detergent bottles. The recycling process can be broken down into three steps. The first step is “collection and processing”. In this step one would search for the items to be recycled, they can be found curbside, at drop-off centers, buy-back centers and drop-off/refund centers. These items are then sorted, cleaned, and transformed into salable products for manufacturing at a materials recovery facility. In the second stage, the “manufacturing” stage, recyclable materials are then transformed into new items containing full or partial recycled content. The “purchase of recycled products” step is the last. This step completes the recycling “circle,” where consumers only receive recycled items. The purpose of recycling is to reuse items to reduce pollution....