Giving Old Appliances New Life: 5 Benefits of Recycling Kitchen Appliances

Giving Old Appliances New Life: 5 Benefits of Recycling Kitchen Appliances

When you first buy a home, renovations are usually right at the top of the list of things to do. One of the more popular choices is a kitchen renovation. That typically means new cabinets, flooring, and appliances. Of course, as time goes by, those appliances will become too inefficient or fail.

You can always just put them out and let the garbage man haul them away. It’s not the only or even the best choice. If you want to go a different route, consider recycling kitchen appliances you no longer use.

Not sure why you’d want to do that? Keep reading for five benefits of recycling kitchen appliances.

1. Reduce Clogging

Appliances are big and soak up usable space at dumps and landfills. What makes it even worse is that most appliances are largely empty. Consider your range or a refrigerator.

The range has a big open space for the oven. The fridge is largely empty space for food. Recycling means that those appliances and their open interiors won’t fill up landfills unnecessarily.

2. Keep Toxins Out of Landfills

More and more modern appliances come equipped with advanced electronics. For example, you can’t have a smart microwave or smart range without circuit boards and WiFi or Bluetooth technology embedded.

When you drop those kinds of appliances into the landfill, it lets toxic chemicals leak from those electronic parts. Those toxins can pollute the local water. REcycling provides a way of disposing electronics in a safe manner.

3. Reuse

Some homeowners toss appliances when they remodel, whether the appliance still works or not. In this case, recycling often means donating the appliance. Charities and homeless shelters will often take used but functional appliances.

They may help replace an appliance for a down on their luck family or let a food bank store perishables for a longer period of time.

4. Reduce Environmental Costs

Recycling provides a way of recapturing a wide variety of metals that can go back to manufacturing concerns. The less companies need new steel, aluminum, and copper, the less demand there is for mining. That helps cut down on environmentally damaging mining byproducts and practices.

5. Sets a Good Example

Recycling your old appliances sets a good example for your friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. If you recycle your appliances, it might inspire them to do the same. The more people who recycle their appliances, the less of an environmental and landfill burden they become.

Recycling Kitchen Appliances and You

Recycling kitchen appliances offers several benefits to the homeowner. You cut down on landfill clogging and help keep dangerous toxins out of them as well. You can help supply a needy family or organization with an older, but serviceable appliance they may need.

You help in a small way to reduce the environmental impact of mining and manufacturing processes. It also lets you set a good example for the people you know.

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