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RECYCLING IN ENGLAND
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==Recycling is very important in EU.People has  sensitivity about recycling. European commision and goverments  enact laws in order to supply recycling.==


 * According to ‘[|DIRECTIVE 2006/66/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC]': **

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*‘Recycling’ means the reprocessing in a production process of waste materials for their original purpose or for other purposes, but excluding energy recovery. =====

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*The Council Resolution of 25 January 1988 on a Community action programme to combat environmental pollution by cadmium stressed the limitation of the uses of cadmium to cases where suitable alternatives do not exist and the collection and recycling of batteries containing cadmium as major elements of the strategy for cadmium control in the interests of the protection of human health and the environment. =====

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* Batteries and accumulators can be collected individually, by way of national battery collection schemes or together with waste =====

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electrical and electronic equipment, by way of national collection schemes set up on the basis of Directive 2002/96/EC. In the latter =====

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electrical and electronic equipment. After their removal from the waste electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and accumulators =====

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schemes should help to achieve high collection and recycling rates and to give effect to the principle of producer responsibility. =====

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* If, in order to achieve the objectives of this Directive, and, in particular, to achieve high separate collection and recycling rates, =====

Member States use economic instruments, such as differential tax rates, they should inform the Commission accordingly.


== [|Environment: Commission proposes revised laws on recycling and use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment] ==

[|Questions and answers on the WEEE proposal]
==**Proposal for a revised directive placing restrictions on certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment**== ==**[|Impact assessment on the proposed directive placing restrictions on certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment]**==

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The following is a list of recycling symbols that you may see on packaged products and goods that you buy. Understanding these recycling symbols will help you to choose the best recycling option:



Glass Recycling
This recycling symbol indicates that a glass product can be recycled in a glass recycling bottle bank, once it has been washed.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">The Green Dot
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">This is a European trademark that producers and suppliers include on their packaging advising consumers that they have contributed financially to the recycling of the products packaging. **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">It does not mean that the packaging is recyclable. **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Aluminium Recycling
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">This recycling symbol indicates that aluminium packaging can be recycled.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Steel Recycling
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">This recycling symbol indicates that steel can be recycled.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Mobius loop
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">This recycling symbol indicates that the products packaging can be recycled. It does not automatically mean it is accepted in all recycling collection systems. Sometimes this is used with a x% figure in the middle which is used to denote that the packaging contains x% of<span style="display: inline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">[|recyclable material.] **Paper Recycling** This recycling symbol shows that the paper or cardboard has been made with at least 75% genuine waste paper, or board fibre, or a mix of both. No part of the 75% contains mill produced paper.

**Wood Recycling** This recycling symbol shows that the product contains wood from sustainably managed forests and is independently certified in accordance with the rules of the <span style="display: inline; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Forest Stewardship Council.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left; vertical-align: sub;">Dispose of this carefully and thoughtfully. Do not litter.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Also in Sweden, everyone from childhood to adult contribution to recycling is too much. If recycling began in 1995 in Sweden legally, Sweden people are conscious about recycling since 1965.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sweden people have recycling bins for nearly everything. There is a bin for newspapers, advertisements and that kind of soft paper, there is a bin for cardboard and paper packaging. There is a bin for metal containers. There is a bin for “white” glass, and there is another for color glass and there are also special bins for stuff like batteries and light bulbs. Swedish recycle their plastic bottles and aluminum cans and get money back at the store.These plastic bottles and cans can not be returned into normal recycling bins.Most buildings in Sweden have large bins which you dump your different recyclable materials. Above each of these bins there are some helpful sign which indicates where should we dump them.



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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Sweden has some of the best recycling rates on the planet. Every Sweden gets through around 16kg of electrical goods every year. Impressively they also manage to recycle well over half that amount. Over 95% of glass gets recycled there, and 85% of newspapers, 70% of metal and 65% of plastic (half of that is burned).The real secret to Sweden's still increasing recycling rates is that recycling is not run by the government or the various municipalities in the country .The recycling process in Sweden is paid for by industry.For example the bottling industry pays for glass recycling and the packaging industry pays for recycling of plastics. Newspaper recycling run by the [|Forpacknings och tidningsinsamlingen (FTI)], (in English the Packaging and Newspaper Collectors), which in turn is owned by the largest food and newspaper industries.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Gardens of Guthenberg Festival] opens on Saturday and runs for three months. At this festival a collection of empty food cans, a pile of glass bottles and some recycled construction bags made for three funky designs.




 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">First picture is a glasshouse which was made from recycled glass bottles from the estate's restaurant.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Second picture is a kitchen garden planted in recycled orange Big Bag rubbish sacks that had been sewn together, filled with potting mix and planted with edible crops.

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Third picture was designed like a traditional parterre garden but with the plants growing around a colourful mosaic which was made from rubbish (recycled food and drink cans sorted into primary colours)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">When you recycle bottles and cans in this Swedish system, you can receive a cash-back coupon for shopping or you can make a donation to charity.



= Stockholm – European Green Capital 2010 =

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Throughout 2010, Sweden's capital will be celebrated as Europe's first Green Capital.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">75% of Ireland's recycling material is exported because they do not have primary manufacturing industries to turn these recycled materials into new products. They have some small Irish recyclers and many primary processors who add value to recycled materials before export or transfer to the final material recyclers.Ireland also has a thriving glass recycling business. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|TIDYTOWNS] Tidytown is Ireland's most well known and popular local environmental initiative. This competition is organised by the Department of the Environment .<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Repak] and <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|SuperValue] has been a sponsor of Tidytowns since 2003. The primary focus of TidyTowns is encourage communities to improve their local environment and make their area better to live.Although just 52 towns entered in its first year, TidyTowns rapidly increased in popularity with an average of 700 entrants per year.





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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Over 380,000 lease holder in the Dublin Region now have a green wheeled bin for the recycling of dry recyclable domestic staff materials. Since April 2009 Greyhound, on aspect of the three Dublin Local Authorities, are liable for the aggregation and grading of menage dry recyclables collected in the domestic staff green bins or bags. The green bin is supported by Repak, an organisation who fund packaging recycling. Lease holders with a green bin should try to maximise its use by recycling as many dry recyclable materials as possible. =====

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Since March 2007 the green bin collection service has been improved and the expanded service is being rolled out to householders across the region on a phased basis. The expanded service includes a change from a monthly service to fortnightly collections. From January 2nd 2009 an enhanced green bin collection service will be put in place. The green bin now accepts all clean plastics, newspapers and magazines, food cans and tetra pak. =====

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Like other European Conutries, recycling is very important issue for England.

<span style="color: #36c93f; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Recycling History Of England Historians of pre-industrial societies have shown surprisingly little interest in the environmental debate wich has raged since the1960s.In part this is probably due to the assumption-voiced by J.D. Gould in 1972-that enviromental problems were created by industrialization:'pollution,loss of natural enviroment,traffic congestion and accidents.have clearly resulted from indusrtrilization and modern technology,andhave no obviously important analogues in pre-industrial societies.'But this was not the case.As Carlo Crpola pointed out a few years later,'negative production' by wich he meant ' the voluntary destruction of men and wealth-largely through war-wea common,as was' pollution and the destruction of the enviromental.'

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There are many observations and studies in England. As you see below in graphic, English researchers have already studied on recycling of household waste between 1984 and 2005.It shows that they know the importance of recycling for protecting the environment.




 * [|Household waste and recycling in England.]** In 1999, the British consultant BioRegional thought up an innovative way of dealing with waste paper. Surely offices could sort their own paper and, after local reprocessing, reuse it? Local Paper for London now recycles more than 2000 tonnes of paper a year, cutting the paper bill by 20 per cent for 400 organisations (schools, government bodies, firms, etc.) taking part in the scheme.

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English people teach their children about importance of recycling while they are growing up.To illustrate, in Closhill Church Of England School, they celebrate recycling christmas.In that day students and teachers wear something bright-turn off the light campaining,they wear bright clothes and some had crazy-coloured hair and talk about ways of reducing pollution,saving energy and recycling.

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1. The UK government supports the development of purpose-designed and built, state of the art ship recycling facilities in Britain.

2. The government brings in a policy to ensure that government-owned vessels will be entirely recycled within the EU at state of the art facilities.

3. The government should seek to persuade British ship owners to recycle their vessels at state of the art facilities within the EU and must urgently explore ways of compelling all [|EU ship] owners to dispose of their ships at such facilities.

<span style="color: #2a2ad5; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Recycling In London
<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 108%; text-align: center;">As you know London is the capital of England.Therefore,attitute of this city on recycling reflects to attitute of England. Londoners and visitors to the city are recycling more than ever before. London saw a 3% rise in its recycling rate from April 2008 to March 2009. A recent report shows that the city's recycling rate rose from 22% to 25% and the proportion of waste sent to landfill fell from 54% to 49%. These increases about recycling make London livable and nice.As people know London is one of the most developed city in the world.Therefore,it should be a model for other cities.London is sensitive about recycling so it is a good example for other cities.

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The UK's largest manufacturer of metal recycling mequipment... [|JMC Recycling Systems Ltd] JMC Recycling Systems Ltd was set up to manufacture and market McIntyre non ferrous scrap metal processing equipment in 2003 and has since become a trusted global metal recycling equipment supplier.