RECYCLING WORK
STUDENT:
- Juan Pablo Cordova Gamboa
INTRODUCTION:
This Recycling Project intends in an informative, practical and educational way, to educate and train students about the recovery, reuse of materials as well as the reduction of their consumption. For this will be collected renewable disposable products such as: plastic, aluminum, paper, cardboard, glass.
How has recycling changed 30 years ago?
Since the appearance on the scene of large cities as a place of settlement of man, the problem of accumulation of waste has been growing and we have been adopting solutions the best we have known.
Municipal waste has been a problem for generations. A large city produces millions of tons and the only method available on a large scale for disposal has been to bury them in wells outside the population where they constitute a nuisance but serve as a filler.
Many scientists have meditated on this problem and the Warren Spring Laboratory, near London, has been conducting experiments to transform such wastes into fuel. A major problem is the separation of organic matter and metals and crystals. The waste is crushed, and all ferrous materials are removed by means of a magnetic separator. By means of a system of air currents the lighter materials are then separated and the aluminum and glass are extracted. The lighter material is sieved and crushed again and conveyed to the reactor for conversion to petroleum. Then it can be said that recycling, reuse and reduction have been changing over thirty years. Now we separate to recycle and that the containers of paper, glass and containers are full of reusable material in industrial processes.
There are many people who do not separate, at least those residues are less in the organic waste.
How to improve recycling?
Recycling, as a practical concept, has already begun to implement four decades. However, it was not until about fifteen years ago that pop culture was impacted by it, and even today we find several aspects of our practices could, and should, be refined. Recycling contributes significantly to counteracting the harmful effects of a waste-consumption dynamic in which we are culturally and economically submerged - largely by building a culture based on market priorities.
Recall that the essence of recycling is to generate dynamic cycles around the materials we use, reducing waste and saving a good portion of the virgin materials (usually from natural resources, some of them non-renewable).
Beyond carefully separating our garbage according to materials, which already involves a laudable process of materialization of consciousness through a little daily discipline, there are different actions or complementary notions that can make your recycling an even more beneficial practice.
Here are a few tips that we suggest you take into account:
1. Before Recycling (Reduce and Reuse)
Before turning to recycle you must remember that there are two previous steps, somehow preventive, to that task: reduce and reuse. Somehow organizing your waste to recycle is a practice that starts when there is no more remedy, but before would be good to review your consumption patterns, reducing them to the maximum without it implying "precarizar" your life. Afterwards, you have to consider what we are going to throw away the garbage could be reused and thus avoid some future purchases. After these two steps then we can apply ourselves to recycling in the most intelligent way possible.
2. Buy recycled things
There is already a market, which is still small but increasingly diverse, using recycled packaging or materials. To the extent that you favor the products included in this circuit then the inputs will reduce your costs (and therefore the products) which will strengthen the recycling market and, simultaneously, the culture around this practice.
3. Get acquainted with the authorities in your city
It is fundamental to know which materials are destined for large-scale recycling. This will allow you to prioritize them when separating your garbage and, beyond a pleasant feeling of environmental responsibility, you will be actively participating in a great dynamic cycle of material.
4. Composite
While we are taught that the main division of waste is organic and inorganic, the fact is that not many cities take advantage of the first. Generally, because they can not capitalize on it (because of lack of knowledge, time or infrastructure), they end up bringing it together with inorganic materials that are not destined for recycling (those whose recycling procedures are either very complex or very expensive). In this sense, better than creating your own home compote, and eventually take advantage of it to grow a homemade vegetable or, if necessary, to feed your ornamental plants with top quality soil.
Recall that the essence of recycling is to generate dynamic cycles around the materials we use, reducing waste and saving a good portion of the virgin materials (usually from natural resources, some of them non-renewable).
Beyond carefully separating our garbage according to materials, which already involves a laudable process of materialization of consciousness through a little daily discipline, there are different actions or complementary notions that can make your recycling an even more beneficial practice.
Here are a few tips that we suggest you take into account:
1. Before Recycling (Reduce and Reuse)
Before turning to recycle you must remember that there are two previous steps, somehow preventive, to that task: reduce and reuse. Somehow organizing your waste to recycle is a practice that starts when there is no more remedy, but before would be good to review your consumption patterns, reducing them to the maximum without it implying "precarizar" your life. Afterwards, you have to consider what we are going to throw away the garbage could be reused and thus avoid some future purchases. After these two steps then we can apply ourselves to recycling in the most intelligent way possible.
2. Buy recycled things
There is already a market, which is still small but increasingly diverse, using recycled packaging or materials. To the extent that you favor the products included in this circuit then the inputs will reduce your costs (and therefore the products) which will strengthen the recycling market and, simultaneously, the culture around this practice.
3. Get acquainted with the authorities in your city
It is fundamental to know which materials are destined for large-scale recycling. This will allow you to prioritize them when separating your garbage and, beyond a pleasant feeling of environmental responsibility, you will be actively participating in a great dynamic cycle of material.
4. Composite
While we are taught that the main division of waste is organic and inorganic, the fact is that not many cities take advantage of the first. Generally, because they can not capitalize on it (because of lack of knowledge, time or infrastructure), they end up bringing it together with inorganic materials that are not destined for recycling (those whose recycling procedures are either very complex or very expensive). In this sense, better than creating your own home compote, and eventually take advantage of it to grow a homemade vegetable or, if necessary, to feed your ornamental plants with top quality soil.
Did you know that....
Recycling is an excellent way of saving energy and conserving the environment. Did you know that:
- 1 recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
- 1 recycled glass bottle would save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
- 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
- 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials.
- Some Interesting Facts
- Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin could be recycled.
- The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours.
- The largest lake in the Britain could be filled with rubbish from the UK in 8 months.
- On average, 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ultimately ends up as rubbish.
- As much as 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.
- Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.
- 9 out of 10 people would recycle more if it were made easier.
Now I going to present one video that talks about the importance of the reciclyng and how the contamination affect our world with the pass of the years...
Link of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYXJfMlD30
