dinsdag 4 april 2017

Don’t throw away, recycle for another day

People are producing more and more waste every year. As a consequence recycling is now more important than ever. Nowadays almost everything can be recycled; plastics, metal, paper, clothes … On the 30th of March, the first recycled spacecraft was even launched.

Usually, after a rocket has fulfilled its purpose, it falls back to Earth and burns away in the atmosphere or crashes somewhere in the ocean. But SpaceX, a company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, has developed a reusable rocket. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, pointed out that discarding the rocket was a waste of money and hard work. He wanted to develop a rocket that lands safely back on Earth after it has been in space and he has succeeded in doing so. Now rockets can be reused over ten times.
By reusing the rockets, the number of space launches done by SpaceX will increase greatly without having to enlarge the production of rockets. Therefore space travel will become a lot less expensive and a lot more accessible for companies who couldn’t afford it until now.
Moreover, recycling space crafts will decrease the amount of waste in our oceans and our atmosphere caused by crashed rockets. This is very positive for our environment, since the remains of those rockets lead to a lot of contamination of the ocean water and of the air we breathe.

This is a great message to all other companies and organisations involving all sorts of fabrications: don’t throw away, recycle for another day!



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