What's the history of recycling?
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Recycling is the collection of used materials that would otherwise be waste to be broken down and remade into new products. Similarly, reuse is collecting waste such as food and drink containers to be cleaned, refilled and resold. Proponents of recycling say that it prevents waste and reduces the consumption of new raw materials. Commonly recycled materials include glass, paper, aluminum, asphalt, and steel. These materials can be derived either from pre-consumer waste (materials used in manufacturing) or post-consumer waste (materials discarded by the consumer).Many manufactured products are not readily biodegradable and take up space in landfills or must be incinerated. Recycling is an alternative to this. In fact, now there are machines that can recycle waste into energy sources and water. In theory, recycling would allow a continuing reuse of materials for the same purpose. In practice, recycling most often extends the useful life of a material, but in a less-versatile form. For example, when paper is recycled, the fibers shorten, making it less useful for high grade papers. Other materials can suffer from contamination, making them unsuitable for food packaging.\n\nOf the 24 OECD-countries where figures were available, only 16% of household waste was recycled in 2002.\n\n\nUS issues\nA neighbourhood recycling station in Oxford, England.\nEnlarge\nA neighbourhood recycling station in Oxford, England.\n\nState support for recycling may be more expensive than alternatives such as landfill; recycling efforts in New York City in the USA cost $57 million per year.1 Environmentalists argue that the benefits to society from recycling compensate for any difference in cost.\n\nA number of U.S. states, such as California, Hawaii, Oregon, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Iowa, Michigan and New York have passed laws that establish deposits or refund values on beverage containers in order to promote recycling. Most are five cents per can or bottle. Michigan's deposit is 10 cents.\n\nSome cities, such as New York and Seattle, have even created laws that enforce fines upon citizens who throw away certain recyclable materials.\n[edit]\n\nReuse\nThe 600ml brown bottle are the "standard beer reused bottle" in Brazil.\nEnlarge\nThe 600ml brown bottle are the "standard beer reused bottle" in Brazil.\n\nOne form of recycling is the reuse of goods, especially bottles. Reuse is distinguished from most forms of recycling, where the good is reduced to a raw material and used in the making of a new good (example: crushing of bottles to make glass for new bottles). Refillable bottles are used extensively in many European countries; for example in Denmark, 98% of bottles are refillable, and 98% of those are returned by consumers. [1] These systems are typically supported by deposit laws and other regulations.\n\nIn some developing nations like India and Pakistan, the cost of new bottles often forces manufacturers to collect and refill old glass bottles for selling cola and other drinks. India and Pakistan also have a way of reusing old newspapers: "Kabadiwalas" buy these from the readers for scrap value and reuse them in packaging or in recycling plants. These scrap intermediaries also help in disposing other articles and metals from the consumers and is a lucrative business for the resellers. [citation needed]\n\nIn the former East Germany, organic household waste was collected and used as fodder for pigs. This integrated system was made possible by the state's control of agriculture; the complexities of continuing it in a market economy after German reunification meant the system had to be discontinued. Organic household waste is still collected separately in some towns in Germany, and may be used for fertilizer or landfilled in more sensitive locations where other waste cannot be.\n\nIn North America, organic household waste, especially yard waste such as leaves on a seasonal basis, is oft
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Yes.\n\nStealing garbage is a crime - so recycling would fall under that statute.
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Yes. And it should be.\n\nRecycled paper means less trash.\n\nThe recycling of paper which has been printed on and used is known as "post-consumer waste". It is more problematic,  but worthwhile. Paper cannot be recycled indefinitely, it can only be recycled 4-6 times, as the fibres get shorter and weaker each time. Some virgin pulp must be introduced into the process to maintain the strength and quality of the fibre, so no matter how much we recycle we will never eradicate the need for virgin fibre.By using waste paper to produce new paper disposal problems are reduced.
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The need of the hour is to manage waste well because inefficient waste management could cause irreparable damage to the environment. \n\n\n“Those who think that sustainability is only a matter of pollution control\nare missing the bigger picture. \nWe are poised at the threshold of an historic moment \nin which many of the world’s industries may be transformed.” \n\ncheck out this link:\n\nhttp://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/nov82005/snt1732152005117.asp\n\nu can check out some examples of wealth from waste products by clicking on the following link\n\nhttp://www.books-directory-projectreports.com/pdf/wealth-from-waste-products.pdf\n\nSolid waste management poses stupendous problems as well as unlimited opportunities for turning waste into wealth. The environmentalist concern for containing pollution levels and conserving non-renewable natural resources has focussed attention on the three R’s, namely Reduce, Reuse and Recycle waste materials. A careful study of the progress made by Metro Toronto in Solid Waste Management (SWM) reveals eye opening information for those who would like to enter the recycling market for starting potentially lucrative businesses. The SWM division of Metro Toronto manages about 5 million tons of waste per annum of which 3 million tons are disposed at land fills, leaving 2 million tons that was diverted from land fills for recycling. Land fills are not the answer to the problem of SWM due to the growing population and urbanization. The real answer lies in stepping up the rate of diversion from land fills to achieve the three R’s.\n\nMetro Toronto ranks as one of the largest municipalities in N. America and one of the few that have a well chartered plan and programme for stepping up the pace of recycling. This has given rise to a thriving recycling industry comprising more than 1000 small, medium and large businesses such as haulers, brokers, processors, recyclers, suppliers of waste reduction equipments, customised collection system designers, wholesale pick up services, confidential document shredders, waste audit consultants, energy conversion units, drum re-conditioners, converters, compactors, etc. in Ontario province alone. Some of them are manufacturers-cum-recyclers engaged in ‘closed loop’ recycling in manufacturing activities like plastic compounding, paper, insulation tapes, moulded paper, cryogenic recycling of rubber and plastics, wiping cloth, fire logs, culets from glass wastes, composting, scrap metal smelting, solvent recycling etc. Metro Toronto has set a target of 90% diversion by the year 2030 from the present level of 40%. This will open up vast frontiers in recycling business making it highly beneficial to Man and Nature, besides the great potential of generating employment and income.\n\nA glance at the financial picture of Metro Toronto’s SWM will make one appreciate the truism behind the concept of wealth from waste. Metro Toronto’s annual revenue from SWM has matched its expenditure of about $150m in recent years thus giving zero net expenditure. Much of the municipality’s revenue comes from land fill management fees levied by it. With no more land fills available and growing community protests against it, the pace of recycling will be stepped up by persuasive, compulsory and punitive measures to achieve the target of zero land fills. The municipality has taken appropriate measures like increasing the number of waste materials that will be prohibited from land fills such as cardboard, wood, metals, paper, etc. The list will soon become so exhaustive as to cover the entire spectrum of industrial, commercial and institutional wastes and will call for total recycling of all wastes in the years to come. The ratio of virgin to recycled input in industries which is about 8 to 2 at present will get reversed by the ceaseless pursuit of environment protection. The stringent curbs on land fills through steep hikes in SWM fees for disposal at land fills has actu
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I think you mean aluminum and plastic resources. Aluminum and plastic are highly recyclable, but in some areas, they are difficult to recycle because of economic, geographic, and government factors.\n\nThe answer would depend on what people drank instead of soda. If they are drinking milk, juice, bottled water, or alcoholic beverages, which also come in cans and bottles, the answer is no.   \n\nIf people drink less fluid in general (probably not healthy), or drink tap water out of containers they re-use (like glasses or nalgene bottles), then yes. How many consumers can we reasonably expect to do that, when many folks can't even be bothered to put their aluminum cans in a separate container?
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The answer to the first question is Yes. As to how much energy we can save and how much garbage we can reduce, I'd recommend calling the local disposal service. Most of them either have recycling programs, or have at least studied them.\n\nI've noticed recycling has caught on big-time in the California cities but is lagging in the smaller towns such as the one where I live. So I found a local non-profit group that hires handicapped people to collect recyclables, and I started a compost heap. I may not be the perfect example you're looking for, but since I got serious about these things, we went from two full cans of trash per week to less than half of one can.\n\nGood question.
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It's where products are put into containers that can be recycled, reused are themselves recycled. They can degrade after they are disgarded and don't hurt the environment. Some companies are working on plastic wrap from soy and fruit (like fruit roll up only much thinner) Some companies use real popcorn instead of styraofoam peanuts. Stuff like that.
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Recycling IS self sustaining and successful less energy is energy used to recycle than manufacturing a new product. It has been proven so that the energy used for recycling is 1/3 of that when manufacturiung something new. Also reducing the amount of natural recources taken from our earth can help make recycling programs reach thier attainable goal of inevitably reducing emmissions and improving the state of the environment.
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there is a company/corporation that handles recycling of styrofoam and that is the (PPRC)  Polysterene Packaging Corp. you can contact them at 526-0899. Actually, I've seen some of their samples. So what are you waiting for....  There's more... some of the recycled styrofoam were exported to other countries..so go for recycling
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Here take a look at these\n\nhttp://images.google.ca/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=recycle&btnG=Search
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Paper-is basically soaked in water and chemicals and turned back into Pulp and then returned into the marketplace as recycled paper.\n\nPlastic-can be melted down and reused, or cleaned and bottled.\n\nGym shoes-Nike, even though Phil Knight is Satan, has a program where they take old gym shoes and convert them into playgrounds and basketball courts for underdeveloped neighborhoods...how they do it? i don't know, but, I'm sure it has something to do with his evil powers.\n\nthink green...obama in 08!
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The way I see it is: as a society we are mass consumers. We buy, use a little, then throw away. Very wasteful. If you can reuse something, it puts a smaller demand on resources and your own pocketbook, not to mention the impact that recycling has on the environment that we live in. It's too bad that we are trained to just be consumers and not to see ahead enough to recognize the problems associated with this consumerism. Good Luck! That's my two bits.
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i dont know where in dallas u can go recycle, but recently i went to my first ever recycle trip and i was carrying 3 full bags. i was expected to make at least a $10 profit (gas money would be nice!) but instead, i only made half of what was expected..... i was big time dissappointed... so now i know that CRV arent really tat expensive. but when it comes to recycling.. dont think of MONEY, think that you'll be SAVING THE WORLD ^_^ js a thought~
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i am not sure if they do it in america but i get rid of all mine on freecycle.\n\nas long as you give it away for free then the person that wants it comes to your house and takes it away, at your convienience.  \n\nit's good for big items and stops landfill sites becoming even fuller.  i have given away a lot of baby stuff that otherwise the people couldn't have afforded  -a pram for example\n\ni feel that i am doing something good for me - gets rid of clutter, for the people getting the stuff and for the planet\n\nbest of wishes to you for thinking of other people - take care and lots of hugs\n\nthey do do it in the us - just checked - visit here and if there is not one for your area then start your own.
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PET or PETE plastic is recyclable from home.   There are literally tens of thousands of types of plastics.  PET plastics have a "1" recycling code on the bottom of them.  It's resins are the most desired for making products out of recycled plastic.\n\nThis page contains the molecular formula, if that helps:\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pslc.ws/mactest/images/petsyn07.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.pslc.ws/mactest/petsyn.htm&h=121&w=677&sz=4&hl=en&start=15&tbnid=ywQQ4fFBb7NGFM:&tbnh=24&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPET%2Bmolecular%2Bformula%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26rls%3DSUNA,SUNA:2005-46,SUNA:en
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no way\nI live in Sweden and the country is better off for recycling, we must do it, all soft drinks/beer bottles have money on them, everywhere there are paper,plastic bins. people believe that the world is a better place for it, sorry to say but you Amerasians think that it's OK to plunder and destroy the planet regardless of the cost. we do our own recycling every time we do our shopping, we think that having big cars with big engines are just a waste, wake up, take a look at the rest of the world before it's to late, after all we have to share it with you,\n\n:)
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Bound & Bound's hubby here:\n\nYou can not really "recycle" spent shotgun shells ... j-yards don't buy them. However, you can do a couple of things.\n\nFirst, if your children would like to make their hike profitable ... bag them in bags of 25 or 100 (identical guage [marked on the brass headstamp], make, color hull). They could list them for a quarter a bag [for starts] on e-Bay. \n\nSecond, you could list them on your local Freecycle ... as give aways. Freecycle is a way to recycle things that would otherwise wind up just taking up space in a land fill. If you find someone willing to take them, these shells can be reloaded a number of times.\n\nGood luck!