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The practicality of recycling is being highlighted worldwide day by day as it brings economic profits while solving the problems of resource shortage and waste.

Many countries are concentrating their efforts on recycling called an “economy with nothing to discard”.

Amid the prevailing trend of regarding waste as a kind of resource, a well-regulated system of retrieving and recycling waste is being established.

Every year, more than two billion tons of urban waste are generated worldwide and 45 percent of it is not treated. Activities are being conducted to recycle this vast amount of waste.

Russia is preparing a process for collecting, sorting and reprocessing waste by kind. There are over 27 000 sorting stations in the residential areas of Sverdlovsk.

In this country, there is a steady increase in the number of plants that produce electricity with sorted waste and each of them produces 70 000 kW of power by treating up to 700 000 tons of solid waste.

In Istanbul, Türkiye, about 80 garbage trucks carry household rubbish to a recycling factory every day, and the factory produces 70-75 tons of organic manure and 15 tons of useful materials.

In Stockholm, Sweden, there is an eco-city area with a relatively well-regulated waste collection system. The sewage treatment station in the area produces biogas by treating kitchen waste and so on.

The circular economy promotion law enforced in China sets forth principles to be adhered to in reducing, reusing and recycling waste. According to the law, many regions and units are actively recycling waste.

Xiamen City has annually produced electricity by treating hundreds of thousands of tons of household rubbish since 2020. The waste slag from the modern incineration process is used in producing building materials and fertilizer, and heat and gas from the process are used for power generation.

A clothing factory in Shanghai produces nearly 5 000 suits of clothes, 15 000 neckerchiefs, bags, pillows and other kinds of goods more by dint of recycling every year. 

In Thailand, recycling technology is being introduced into the production processes of hundreds of enterprises.

Vietnam also pays close attention to treating and recycling waste. The government calls for minimizing waste on the three principles of reduction, reuse and recycling.

In Germany, which enacted the circular economy law, measures are taken to produce as less as waste.

Kenya provides medium- and small-sized enterprises in charge of waste disposal with special funds and technical support for expanding capacity.

Different countries have introduced the technology of making environmental-friendly stone paper from muck from coal mines to produce economic effects.

It is a common view of the international community that a lot of material wealth can be created by collecting and recycling only household rubbish and other waste materials regularly.