1. RECYCLING FOR THE BETTER
BY: SHEREEN ADAM

2. RECYCLING
Recycling is the process of taking a product at the end of its useful life and using all or part of it to make another product.
Five reasons to recycle
Recycling saves natural resources by reducing the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.
Recycling saves energy. It often takes less energy to make products from recycled material than raw materials; for example, recycled aluminum takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore.

3. recycling: five reasons to recycle cont.
Recycling helps keep the air and water cleaner. Making products from recycled materials typically creates less air and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.
Recycling saves landfill space by reusing products that would otherwise have gone to a landfill or been incinerated
Recycling saves money and creates jobs. The recycling process creates more jobs than landfills or incinerators and the cost of recycling is often lower than or about the same as other forms of waste management.

4. IN THE Landfills

5. IN THE LANDFILLS

6. In the landfills

7. Period of decomposing Banana Peel: 3-4 weeks Paper Bag: 1 month
Cardboard: 2 months
Wool Sock : 1 year
Tinned Steel Can: 50 years
Aluminum Can: years (But if recycled, it can be reused within 6 weeks!)
Disposable Diapers: 550 years
Plastic Bags :  years
Plastic Jug: 1 million years
Glass : 1-2 million years
Styrofoam: 1+ million years

8. Benefits of recycling
Recycling protects and expands US manufacturing jobs and increases US competitiveness.
Recycling reduces the need for land filling and incineration.
Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials.
Recycling saves energy.
Recycling decreases emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.
Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals.
Recycling helps sustain the environment for future generations.

9. Plastic recycling
Plastics make up more than 12 percent of the municipal solid waste stream, a dramatic increase from 1960, when plastics were less than one percent of the waste stream.
The recycling rate for different types of plastic varies greatly, resulting in an overall plastics recycling rate of only 8 percent, or 2.4 million tons in 2010.

10. Plastic recycling
Plastic bags and product wraps (known collectively as “plastic film”) are commonly recycled at the many collection programs offered through major grocery stores.
Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
Time of decomposing
Plastic Bags :  years

11. Paper recycling
Paper makes up 29 percent of municipal solid waste (MSW), more than any other material Americans throw away. Because of this, recycling paper can greatly reduce the overall amount of MSW produced.
Recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions, conserves natural resources, and saves landfill space.
According to the American Forest and Paper Association, nearly 80 percent of America’s paper mills are designed to use paper collected in recycling programs, and they depend on paper recycling to supply the raw materials they need to make new paper.

12. Paper recycling
Extends the fiber supply and contributes to carbon sequestration.
Saves considerable landfill space.
Reduces energy and water consumption.
Decreases the need for disposal (i.e., landfill or incineration which decreases the amount of CO2 produced).

13. Statistics of recycling

15. Water recycling
Recycling water on site or nearby reduces the energy needed to move water longer distances or pump water from deep within an aquifer.
Tailoring water quality to a specific water use also reduces the energy needed to treat water.
The water quality required to flush a toilet is less stringent than the water quality needed for drinking water and requires less energy to achieve.
Using recycled water that is of lower quality for uses that don’t require high quality water saves energy and money by reducing treatment requirements.

16. WATER RECYCLING It can reduce and prevent pollution.
When pollutant discharges to oceans, rivers, and other water bodies are curtailed, the pollutant loadings to these bodies are decreased.
In some cases, substances that can be pollutants when discharged to a body of water can be beneficially reused for irrigation.
For example, recycled water may contain higher levels of nutrients, such as nitrogen, than potable water.
Application of recycled water for agricultural and landscape irrigation can provide an additional source of nutrients and lessen the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

17. Water resource
All new single family and duplex residential dwelling units should include either a separate multiple pipe outlet or a diverter valve, and outside ‘stub-out’ installation on clothes washing machine hook-ups, to allow separate discharge of gray water for direct irrigation.
All new single family residential dwelling units should include a building drain or drains for lavatories, showers, and bathtubs, segregated from drains for all other plumbing fixtures, and connected a minimum three (3) feet from the limits of the foundation, to allow for future installation of a distributed gray water system

18. Why recycling matters
You’ve just saved materials. Instead of going to a landfill or incinerator, that bottle or can gains new life as a remade bottle, can or other object. No need to use new materials to make another one; you made the new one out of the old one.
You’ve saved energy. It takes less energy to recycle materials than to make from scratch in nearly every case. You’ve just conserved energy and the coal, oil or natural gas needed to make that energy.
You’ve saved a trip to the oil well, mine or gas field. Because you reused the material in step one, and saved the energy in step two, we don’t have to make another trip to the well head or mine shaft to get more stuff out of the earth.

19. WHY RECYCLING MATTERS
You’ve preserved habitat. Face it- no matter how carefully it’s done, mining and oil drilling creates habitat damage. Sometimes just a little, sometimes massive amounts. Using less saves habitat and our natural systems.
You’ve created jobs. Recycling requires people to do it. Repairing or refurbishing old equipment requires labor. So does recycling raw materials. By reusing, restoring and recycling, you create green jobs for the people who do the work.

20. WHY RECYCLING MATTERS
You’ve improved national security and saved lives. Much of our troops’ bloodshed overseas is done to protect vital natural resources that we want to use. By recycling, you’ve reduced the demand for virgin resources and increased the demand for the resources we already have, literally right in our hands.
You feel better about yourself. You’re not some slacker tossing perfectly good materials into the trash heap or oceans and streams. You’re a responsible citizen who’s making a better world for all of us.

21. RECYCLING REDUCES……
Recycling the print run of a single Sunday Issue of the New York Times out spare 75,000 trees.
Recycling 1 ton of aluminum saves 4 ton of bauxite.
When recycling steel, you save 40% of water.
Reduces pollution by 35% of water and air pollutants by 73%.
Helps reduce landfill space and disposal costs.
Reduces litter
Making new steel from old scrape offers up to 75% energy savings.

22. Recycling reduces…..
Paper recycling saves up to 70% of the energy needed to create new paper from timber.
Great to reuse and great to recycle are grocery sacks + produce bags You save a new bag, and your old bags don't smell like chemicals. Often these new plastic bags have a smell coming from plasticizer chemicals that out-gas from the bags.
When these bag are torn or damaged bring them back to your grocery store. They will be use to make new bags.
Steel cans also called tin cans are easy to recognize and great to recycle! No need to remove paper labels, the high temperature of metal processing deals easily with contamination.

23. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Composting is a special form of recycling producing good compost.
When plastic types are mixed, it is difficult to recycle.
The plastic industry has developed cryptic markers, seen on the bottom of plastic containers. The chasing arrow symbol identifies the plastic type.
Glass bottles must not be mixed with other types of glass such as windows, light bulbs, mirrors, glass tableware, Pyrex or auto glass. If glass bottles are sorted by color, they are more valuable and are used to make new bottles. It is not necessary to remove glass bottle labels for recycling.

24. WHAT WE CAN RECYCLE Most of all metals Most of all glass
Most of all plastics
Most of all paper products
Most of all organic materials
Most of all electronics
Aluminum

25. The three r’s

26. PROTECT OUR NATURE
When we protect Nature, we protect ourselves! Recycling helps: A) to reduce air pollution B) to reduce water pollution C) to reduce water contamination D) to extend natural resources E) to raise national security AND it saves you money!

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