Over 250 million tons of trash is generated in one year in the United States, and only 13 percent is recycled plastic (*reference*). One person who sees first hand of how much Americans waste is noted plastic engineer, Mike Biddle. He started off as a trash man but, realized there could be a better way that people could recycle other than putting water bottles in a certain bin. In his Ted talk he discusses his new way of separating and breaking down plastic into pellets. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that with everyone recycling there will be less greenhouse gases emitted. They also believe that with recycling there will be more natural resources available in the future. Lastly UXL Science discusses how recycling could boost the economy by allowing more jobs than both landfills and incinerating plants have to offer. The two articles enhance the Ted Talk by showing the importance of recycling also that recycling makes the world a more biologically safer place.
Across the world there are piles of material that could be recycled, but many consumers see it as junk and throw it away. The hardest part of recycling plastic is being able to separate the different types of plastic. As metal is easy to separate because of the simplicity of being able to determine what type of metal it is by finding its makeup and observing the color of certain metals. Most plastics have a different makeup, density, and various colors, which makes it that more difficult for recycling plants to try and separate it so it can be recycled. Mike Biddle used his expedition to the slums of Mumbai, India as a learning experience when he saw people trying to recycle plastic. When the workers couldn't figure out what different plastics were made up of they used the burn and sniff method which isn't the safest. Biddle patented his idea of grinding up the plastic in to small fingernail size pieces.
Recycling is a useful method of reusing materials. ... Recycling works best when remembering to buy and use products made from recycled materials. ... Recycling is a useful method of reusing materials. ... Recycling works best when remembering to buy and use products made from recycled materials. ... Recycling is a useful method of reusing materials. ...
Thus, it is better to find a product that can be manufactured once and reused several times. Materials such as steel have a long history of being successfully extracted from the site and recycled back into a usable product. ... In spite of this, hard work continued in the quest to recycle this product into a material fit for reuse until it was resolved. ... For instance, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) , a major material found in conveying pipe systems, is now being recycled for use in new vinyl flooring. ... Whenever considering building, look for materials to construct with th...
Waste recycling is to pass waste through a system which enables that waste to be reused, it involves the collection, separation and clean-up of waste materials. ... Although households produce a great amount of unused materials, there are really three major household waste is recycled in the modern societies. ... (Environment Council, 2000: 2,103) Nevertheless, by the chemic reasons of plastics, plastic is considered by people as one of the most difficult materials to recycle. ... Primary recycling contains the reuse of off-grade and scrap materials directly by the recycling plant, and then...
In many schools, supermarket and stores, you will find recycling slots or binges that holds recycled materials. However, there sometimes can be a problem with the labeling systems of recycling material for the consumers, us. ... There also can be a problem with the packagers because they compete and claim that their packaging is "produced from recycled material". ... The word scrap is also sometimes used meaning that the material has been left over from an industrial process and cannot be reused or reprocessed within the same plant. ... In the article, 80% recycled paper and 65% post-...
As a result, for utilizing the potential recyclable materials in landfills and promoting recycling, many countries such as the U.S, Canada and Taiwan, have started to implement mandatory recycling scheme. ... As stated in a report published by Friends of the Earth in 2008, nearly 60 to 70% of wastes found in dustbins can be recycled and reused and about 50% of them could even be recovered. ... According to Ferrara & Paul (2005), making recycling mandatory could approximately increase the likelihood of recycling by 30% in all types of materials. ... On one way, some common recyclables, such as ...
When we recycle, less raw materials are needed for manufacturing many products. ... It is also good because the manufacturing of products from recycled materials creates less air and water pollution and saves more energy than the manufacturing of products from raw materials. ... This is because it costs companies less to manufacture products using recycled materials instead of raw materials. ... The worst part about recycling is sorting it out, and cutting up the big pieces of recyclables. ... If we reduce the garbage we accumulate, reuse what can be used more than once, and recycle what we ca...
In commercial offices, this portion can increase to as much as 85% recyclable materials (2). ... Recycling can turn waste materials into valuable resources. ... Solid waste management exists in a hierarchy, with landfill and incineration at the bottom and source reduction, reuse, and recycling at the top. The first thing citizens at an individual level can do is reduce and reuse. ... Reuse and reduction of waste can also be done on an industrial level. ...
