Recycling plastic will help save our natural resources. 1. With the increasing human population the needs for the people also increases. But the point of concern is that are there enough natural resources to service all your needs. What if these resources finish‚ this is one thing we need to ponder upon. Plastic is one of the most used materials in the world. Majority of the items we use daily are made out of plastic. For example like water bottles‚ cups‚ tables and chairs‚ etc.
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Plastic is one of the most widely used products in the U.S. We use it to package consumer products‚ to charge our purchases with credit cards‚ to carry our food and drink‚ to build our toys and to even make our clothing! There are over 10‚000 different kinds of plastic in the world‚ and it is so versatile and can be mixed with so many other elements that its uses are limitless. But plastic takes up about 10% of our total waste stream‚ and it is composed mainly of the non-renewable resource petroleum
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Plastics are durable‚ lightweight materials that were invented in 1909. They are normally made from oil and natural gas. Using plastics to replace packaging materials such as metal and glass has allowed manufacturers to make packages that are more efficient. For example to bottle eight gallons of a beverage would take only two pounds of plastic but would take three pounds of aluminum‚ eight pounds of steel and 27 pounds of glass. The light weight of plastic packaging helps reduce transportation
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------------------------------------------------- Recycling Energy Conversion Business Plan Executive Summary Objective Nationwide‚ many landfills are closing or exhausting their remaining capacity‚ yet due to environmental restrictions‚ zoning laws‚ and other regulatory and bureaucratic delays‚ pitifully few new landfills are opening to offset the looming space crisis. Meanwhile municipal waste continues to flow in greater volume. Handling the nation’s waste stream has become a major problem
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Introduction Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials‚ reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials‚ reduce energyusage‚ reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution from landfilling by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal‚ and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass‚ paper‚ metal‚ plastic‚ textiles‚ and others. Nowadays
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Millions of plastic bags are given out to consumers by supermarkets and stores to carry their goods in. They are also cheap‚ light‚ durable‚ easy to carry and in many cases‚ free. The most commonly used shopping bag is made of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). This type is used in the majority of supermarkets and stores. After these bags are used‚ they often end up in landfills or as litter‚ roughly only three percent of plastic bags is actually recycled per year (Planet Ark‚ 2011). The materials
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University IBMS department Tutor: Location: HZ University of Applied Sciences‚ Vlissingen/Netherlands Date: 9.01.2014 Course: Information Literacy Student: Student number: Plastic Recycling What should we do with our plastic rubbish? Content 1. Introduction The task for the students was to write about a topic that interested them‚ and to apply the learned knowledge and skills in connection with the course information
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Partnership with Plastic Recycling Companies It goes without saying that some recycling measures‚ including setting up of recycling bins‚ have been done by the school to promote recycling of plastic in the campus‚ but we believe that the duty of recycling cannot count on the school solely on account of the limited school resources. In view of this‚ we suggest that the school can ask for partnership with some of the plastic recycling companies in Shantou City. The partnership will be a mutually-beneficial
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Recycling reuses waste materials such as glass bottles‚ Paper‚ plastic‚ and aluminum. It has been this way now for years now and more people need to take more action in recycling their waste. It’s been proven that recycling our waste has improved our world to be more cleanly sanitary. There are a lot of ways we can recycle the things we have around the house. For example‚ glass from a Snapple bottle can be broken down and be put back together to make a new glass bottle. Throwing away materials is
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Recovery of Plastic Bottles for Recycling: A Study of Responsible Environmental Behaviour at the University of the West Indies‚ Mona Campus‚ Kingston‚ Jamaica" Background (Recycling versus dumping) • • • • • Recycling is expensive and can be very expensive Dumping is cheap Recycling requires courage and motivation Dumping is natural Recycling requires forward investment‚ make governmental authorities‚ polluters from private and public enterprises upset • Dumping require no
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