Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Recycle! Make it part of your everyday cycle!

Don’t pollute, you’ll be cute!

If you pollute then you’ll get the boot.

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The Expert answers:

I actually recycle a lot less than I did five years ago, because we buy a lot less of everything. Some things we used to recycle we no longer recycle at all such as magazines, telephone directories, junk mail, video tapes, children’s toys/games etc etc. We have stopped all of these at source, such as registered with the mailing preference service, we don’t buy magazines, videos etc. So we no longer have anything to recycle at all.

Recycling has changed a lot in the past five years. There are now loads of car boot sales where people sell on their unwanted items. Locally we can now recycle clothes, shoes, old spectacles, books, linen, timber etc etc, which were not available options before. Again though we buy less of everything so we have very little to recycle.

The Expert answers:

It depends on the recycling program in your area. All paper is NOT created equal. It is either made by physically pulping the wood or by chemically pulping the wood. Each has their advantages but it affects how they are used and how they are recycled.

The problem with mixing is it may contaminate the paper it is mixed with causing it all to be down-cycled and in some cases thrown away. You should contact the company doing your recycling.

The Expert answers:

Their is recycled air in the carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle and no recycled air in the carbon cycle.’

The Expert answers:

Recycling of metals is very very effective in reducing energy use as well as pollution.
Recycling of paper is not so obvious, but according to whole cycle studies, it reduce overall pollution, water use and energy use too.

The Expert answers:

Nitrogen is constantly being recycled in the nitrogen cycle. Here is how:

1. The atmosphere contains about 78% nitrogen gas, N2. This is very unreactive so it can’t be used directly by plants or animals.
2. Nitrogen is needed for making proteins for growth, so living organisms have to get it somehow.
3. Plants get their nitrogen from soil, so nitrogen in the air has to be turned into nitrogen compounds before plants can use it. Animals can only get proteins by eating plants or other animals.
4. Decomposers break down proteins in rotting plants and animals, and urea in animal waste, into ammonia. So the nitrogen in these organisms is recycled.
5. Nitrogen fixation is the process of turning N2 from the air into nitrogen compounds in the soil which plants can use. There are two main ways this happens:
a) Lightning- there’s so much energy in a bolt of lightning that it’s enough to make nitrogen react with oxygen in the air to give nitrates.
B) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in roots and soil.
6) There are four different types of bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle:
a) Decomposers- decompose proteins and urea and turn them into ammonia.
B) Nitrifying bacteria- turn ammonia in decaying matter into nitrates.
C) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria- turn atmospheric N2 into nitrogen compounds plants can use.
D) Denitrifying bacteria- turn nitrates back into N2 gas. This is of no benefit to living organisms.

The Expert answers:

You have them in the wrong order, if you reduce and reuse there is less need to recycle.

If you are in school why not give a specific example of how a student can do all 3.

Reduce- If you keep all your school supplies in a central location you won’t buy things you already have. If you use both sides of the paper to do school work you can reduce your paper consumption by 50%, If you shut off your computer when you go to sleep or leave the house you use reduce electricity usage. If you pack a waste free lunch you reduce waste. Buy fewer clothing items for the new school year.

Reuse- You can use many school items for several years, backpacks, binders, pencil pouches, partially used notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, calculators etc. Donate unwanted clothing items instead of throwing them in the garbage. Rent a prom dress instead of buying one.

Recycle- Complete the cycle, buy recycled, almost all of my sons school supplies are made with recycled content, everything from pencils to binders.

The Expert answers:

Re-cycling helps in conservation of environment. We use different kinds of non-degradable things like plastics, tin cans etc. In our daily life. Degradable things like papers are also used in tremendous amount. Recycling non-biodegradable materials helps in minimizing pollution. Burning such wastes cause air pollution, dumping them in land or water might cause land and water pollution. Papers are produced from trees, recycling them helps to minimize deforestation. To conserve environment, one should practice recycling.

The Expert answers:

Everything is cycling from cloud to ocean, from earth to bottle. I’m thinking we are succumbed to our governments directions and conformity’s and all we can do is try to “re” duce the cycling of new earth matters into wasteful matters