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__ **WHAT IS RECYCLING AND WHY DO WE NEED TO RECYCLE? ** __

In this page we want to inform people about recycling,what are materials should be recycled?,what happen recyle materials,what is importance of recycling?
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Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass,paper,metal,plastic,textiles and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste – such as food or garden waste – is not typically considered recycling. Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.=====



Recycling can be a very complex process. It involves:
 * the collection of waste materials through kerbside collection or drop-off centres
 * sorting of these materials at a Materials Recovery Facility (this is the name given to recycling centres)
 * processing those materials into a form which can act as a substitute for virgin material (for example recycled glass cullet, or pelletised plastic)
 * manufacturers using these sorted materials to make new and useful products.



__ BENEFİTS OF RECYCLİNG __
1. **Financial Income** – There is money in recycling. In the level of the individual, one of the benefits of recycling is financial income. There are a lot of things lying around the house that we no longer want or need that might just end up in a dumpsite somewhere, that we can recycle and earn money from. Cell phones, PDAs, ink cartridges, etc

2. **Recycling helps conserve limited resources** – Throwing away a single aluminum can, versus recycling it, is like pouring out six ounces of gasoline.


 * 3. Recycling is energy efficient –** On a larger scale, recycling could translate into huge reductions in our energy costs. Consider these facts: It costs more energy to manufacture a brand new aluminum can than it does to recycle 20 aluminum cans. 20 cans can be made from recycled material using the same energy it takes to make one new can.

4) **Recycling builds community** – In almost all communities in the country today, there is a growing concern for recycling and the environment. People are working together in recycling programs, lobbies, and free recycle organizations to help promote recycling. We will be featuring these groups in our upcoming posts and link with the various networks to help you locate the nearest recycling center or free recycle group nearest your location.

5) **Recycling creates jobs** – Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job; landfilling 10,000 tons of waste creates six jobs; recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs.

6) **Recycling builds a strong economy** – Recycling has a huge impact in our economy in terms of jobs, energy cost reduction, resources conservation. Lately, as the price of oil hits close to $120 a barrel, people have become more aware of the huge impact of recycling, particularly in reducing plastic waste material coming from the bottled water and beverage industry. We will be discussing this in detail in our future posts.

7) ** Recycling is Earth-friendly –** No matter how safe and efficient our landfills are being billed to be, the possibility of dangerous chemicals coming from the solid waste deposited in these landfills, contaminating underground water supply is always present. Combustion or incineration of our solid waste is effective and energy-generating, but we pay the price in increased air pollution.


 * [|What is Recycling: 7 Benefits of Recycling]**

= __WHAT ARE MATERIALS SHOULD BE RECYCLED?__ = = = __ 1)ALUMINIUM :__ Aluminium is devided into small pieces.Then,these pieces are melt in huge hearth,so they can be used in production again.

__2)ASBESTOS:__ Asbestos is the name given to a group of naturally occurring minerals used in certain products, such as building materials and vehicle brakes, to resist heat and corrosion. Asbestos includes chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite asbestos, anthophyllite asbestos, actinolite asbestos, and any of these materials that have been chemically treated and/or altered. Asbestos is typically disposed of as [|hazardous waste] in [|landfill sites].Asbestos can also be recycled by transforming it into harmless silicate glass. A process of thermal decomposition at 1000–1250 °C produces a mixture of non-hazardous silicate phases, and at temperatures above 1250 °C it produces silicate glass. Microwave thermal treatment can be used in an industrial manufacturing process to transform asbestos and asbestos-containing waste into porcelain stoneware tiles, porous single-fired wall tiles, and ceramic bricks.



__3)BATTERIES:__ All types of batteries are recycled.Waste batteries include lead acid (other than automotive batteries which are managed at the garage), nickel/cadmium, lithium, mercury and silver batteries.



__4)CLINICAL WASTE:__ Clinical waste such as nappies, sanitary waste and medical supplies have the potential to be infectious so must be disposed of in accordance with strict regulations.

__ 5)ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT :__ The electrical equipment which are recycling are separated according to their model and trademark.The usable parts of electrical equipments are used in repairing.The unusable ones are recycled.

__6)GLASS:__ Glasses are separated according to their colors.These glasses is broken and melted with raw metarial.The broken glass are used as concrete addition and glass-asphalt.The glass can always be recycled.Its structure does not spoil.



__7)METAL:__ Things like soda cans, soup cans and used car parts are crushed by a large mauler before being packaged together and sent to a mill where they are melted down to a molten metal state.From this high-heat metal liquid, other metal products can be easily created through molds.Many aluminum cans are the product of previously recycled aluminum cans, and when they are used they can be recycled into yet another can.



__8)MOBILES:__ The devices which are recycling are separated according to their model and trademark.The usableparts of mobiles are used in repairing of another mobiles.The unusable ones are recycled ,so the exhaustion of natural source are hindered.

__9)OIL:__ The oil is eliminated in two ways.First way is its burning ,but this way is very harmful.Second way is making usable oil by distillating.

__10)PAPER:__ Firstly,paperis divided into its fiber to prepare dough of paper.If it is necessary,the unnecessary things in it are cleaned.Then,the prepared paper fiber are used in paper production.

__11)PLASTIC:__ P lastic are separated according to their kinds and they are used again in production by melting.



__ 12)WOOD __: The wood is divided into small pieces.Then,these pieces use in the manufacture of board,furniture,chipboard.



= __ WHAT HAPPEN RECYCLE MATERİALS? __ =

In today’s modern world,most of developing and developed countries use recycling.They want to produce again waste materials.There are some factories which exactly recycle materials.There are many recycling plants in the worldwide market, reprocessing million of tonnes of materials such as paper,organic waste and glass bottles etc.Each recycled materials are carried out along conveyor belt to W-scream separator.W-scream is made up of fast moving rotaters.This separate out newspapers,cartboards and anotler paper items.Metals,plastic and glass fall thow to next belt.The paper is banded and prepared reprocessing.The another materials carry on to the two stage metal recovery system.First,as super heavy magnets attracts items of ferrous metals such as iron and steel and drop them to the ferrous metal box.It continues along with the other items to eddy current part.This part creates strong fields of energy around non magnetic metals such as aluminum objects.Eddy system apart aluminum from another materials and collect them for recycle processing.Plastic and glass continue on the belt to the scanning system which recognize the plastic items and moves them away directed blassed air.The plastic materials are blown of the belt and leaving heavier glasses. At the end,glass falls into the final conveyor.Let’s talk about how aluminum meterials recycle. Aluminum is also the most cost-effective material to recycle. Aliminum metals send to smelter where is exposed to extremely high heat.A temperature is 2800 degree celcius.It becomes melted like liquid.Then,the liquid is pressed to give it particular shape and then its temperature decrease,it is ported to the factories.At the end,alminum cans,file canbets and component of cars and air plane etc. is made of this.

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 * Recycling has always been a matter of helping the environment because of economic reasons.The process of recycling has existed for thousands of years.We can analyse the history of recycling with three title.**

Early Recycling

 * Making the used product reusable is the most common practice human beings are going through from times B.C. However, this was not professional.**

[[image:http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwasteless/images/photos/recyc09_450.jpg width="405" height="258" align="right"]] Wartime Recycling

 * Resource shortages are caused by the world wars. Moreover world-changing occurrences encouraged recycling.In wartimes of World War II ,recycling war started by the big states.**

Post-War Recycling

 * After the war end, the recycling campaign was upheld. This was kept for long time in order to save revenue that has been spend over producing new material. This revenue was used in more constructive work.**


 * Wartime recycling in New York City**

= Recycling statics =

[|Top 10 Countries Recycling] [|Countries - % of waste recycled 1.Switzerland - 52%] [|2.Austria - 49.7%] [|3.Sweden - 48%] [|4.Germany - 47%] [|5.Finland - 46.7%] [|6.Netherlands - 46%] [|7.Japan - 42.%] [|8.US - 31.5%] [|9.France - 31%10.Norway - 30%]

Australia

 * There was an 825% increase of recycling for all types of waste between 1996-1997 and 2002-2003. **

Austria

 * Austria is the leading recycler in the European Union with an approximate amount of 60% of waste products being recycled. **

Greek

 * Only 10% of Greece’s total waste is being recycled and the remaining 90% goes to landfills. **

United Kingdom

 * 17.7% is the estimate on the amount of rubbish UK is recycling. **

United States
53.4 percantage of all paper products are recycled. 32.5 percentage of total waste are recycled.**
 * 82 million tons of materials are recycled in the United States. Moreover,they are recycling 251 million tons of trash.

South Africa

 * Recycling in South Africa is a very little.T****he infrastructure for collecting recyclable material isn’t really in place.The recovery rates for various materials are as follows:**
 * **Cans: 67.5 percent**
 * **Paper: 50 – 52 percent**
 * **Glass: 21 – 30 percent**
 * **Plastic: About 17 percent**

= Recycling by the numbers =



Aluminum
**Recycling one** **aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours or a tv for 2 hours.** ** An average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled every minute of every day. ** [|Aluminium recycling requires only 5% of the energy and produces only 5% of the carbon dioxide emissions compared to primary production.]
 * More than 50% of a new aluminum can is made from recycled aluminum.**

Wood
The remaining 85 per cent is sent to landfil.**
 * Ten million tonnes of waste wood is produced each year in the UK.Only 1.5 million tonnes of waste wood is recycled in the UK every year.

Glass containers save 9 gallons of fuel for every ton of glass recycled. **
 * Recycling glass saves 25-32% of the energy used to make glass.

Plasti**c**
**Recycling 1 ton of plastic can save 1-2 thousand gallons of gas.** [|In 2007, more than 325 million pounds of wide-mouth plastic containers were recovered for recycling.]

**Paper **
[|Recycling one stack of newspapers about 6 feet tall saves the life of one tree 35 feet tall. Recycling approximately 1 ton of newspaper saves 17 trees.]
 * One ton of high-grade recyclable paper can substitute for approximately 3 tons of wood in making new paper products. **
 * Using old paper to make new paper uses 30 to 50 percent less energy than making paper from trees.**

**Steel **
**You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make 1 new one**. [|The steel industry has been recycling for over 150 years.]
 * In 2001, nearly 2 million tons of steel was recovered from recycled appliances.**