What Will Happen If We Do Not Recycle?

Pollution:
Pollution can produce both long- and short-term adverse health effects, including bronchitis, headaches, heart disease and cancer. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cautions that children, the elderly and people who suffer from health conditions like asthma have a greater sensitivity to pollutants. The extent of harm from pollution depends on the duration of exposure and the concentration of the chemicals.

Landfills:  
Victorians are pretty enthusiastic recyclers. Over the past 20 years, we’ve really started to get our act together. We now recycle a total of 62 percent of our solid waste. So it may come as a surprise that the amount of waste we dump in landfill has largely remained unchanged.