Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Spending Green
Support eco-friendly companies by buying products made from recycled material – this could be anything from pencils and paper to wallets and clothing!

Compost the Most
Ask your parents or your school to start a compost. All your biodegradable food garbage – like egg shells and banana peels – will soon turn to soil that is great for planting.

Buy Rechargeable Batteries
Batteries are filled with toxic materials that are terrible for the environment, so go green by buying batteries that you can recharge. There are also special companies that will collect your old batteries and recycle them safely.

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It is the technology used for recycling. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
It takes waste, and uses it for something useful to somebody. Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqK32In3rTEi43vFvo3Y6zmRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20130429104225AA9n3vb
If done right, there might be an energy savings from not having to produce virgin materials. Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiAfxkH_UMUv_bfYFj2NiOaQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20130428151701AAvYhwV
Imagine making your own natural gas from your own organic waste instead of buying it from the utility company, http://www.mdpub.com/gasifier/index.html
or using garbage to make an add on to your house instead of buying building materials from the store. Http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/used-building-materials.aspx#axzz2RUIdCBwg
If you do that economically, you have relieved pressure on companies to drill for gas, and log for lumber. You can cut your use of natural gas further by using a wood burning stove, and powering it with your cut up dried yard waste. Http://www.stovesandfires.com/Products/Period_Stoves/Country_Franklin_Period_Multifuel_Stoves.asp
Any waste that is too yucky to put into your franklin stove can be turned into organic fertilizer. [4]
There is no reason to send a bunch of glass bottles to be melted down when you could just refill them yourself, and save the energy involved in melting and reforming glass. Http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/4324487#
Rather than throw away paper, you can make useful stuff with it. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9
Also, you can do your part to convert forest to farmland by not composting the bugs and spiders you kill around the house, but integrating them directly into your diet instead. [1]
Instead of landfilling old rags, you can make useful quilts from them with watching television. [2]
Although I do not recommend that you try this at home, there is a movement to industrially recycle spend nuclear fuel into a particularly unstable type of nuclear fuel known as “MOX” in order to make a waste product that can economically be used to make nuclear weapons. [3]

The Expert answers:

Paper is one of the easiest materials to recycle. Paper is collected from our kerbside or recycling banks by local authorities and waste management companies.

Once the paper is collected it is then:

* Sorted, graded and delivered to a paper mill.
* Once at the paper mill it is added to water and then turned into pulp.
* The paper is then screened, cleaned and de-inked through a number of processes until it is suitable for papermaking.
* It is then ready to be made into new paper products such as newsprint, cardboard, packaging, tissue and office items.

It can take just seven days for a newspaper to go through the recycling process and be transformed into recycled newsprint which is used to make the majority of Britain’s national daily newspapers.

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The recycled paper is usually used for newspapers, paper, tissue boxes, magazines and heaps of other stuff.

The Expert answers:

Bantay kalikasan Pare… Good Topic so other people will know..

IRI Philippines, Inc. Is the first company in the Philippines specializing in solid waste recycling and reclamation services…. Plus they pay you..$$$
Since 2001, the company has been servicing the waste disposal requirements of the country’s semiconductor and electronics industries. In 2004, IRI has realized its vision of becoming a fully-integrated waste recycling company. Now a total environmental company, it offers its clients:

the most competitive prices for waste materials

professional and highly-trained personnel

state-of-the art machinery and equipment

complete servicing hauling to metal extraction/treatment
tight security for the protection of proprietary information in the materials

ideal location

environmentally-safe processes with complete pollution control infrastructure

Yes!!!… Let’s Help the environment , salamat… Safe disposal of toxic waste.

The Expert answers:

Yes, batteries can be recycled. They can be dropped off at some city waste management companies and at Radio Shack stores.

I don’t have the answers about what happens after. You could try to find that info out at the link I posted below.

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One of the recycling company is called the Recycling Bank that I always use for recycling my old items. Another company is called the Recycling Point Dot Com, which does the same as Recycling Bank. You can also look at a list of recycling centres/ company in Singapore by visiting the following website: http://www.buysingapore.com/biztype/edirectory/9/698/Recycling_Of_Metal_Waste_And_Scrap.html

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I’ve never worked for them, but looking at their website, it seems to me that they are professional.

Their website is well done, professional produced, and speaks of quality.

Their equipment, at least the equipment that is in the photos on their site, is new and well maintained.

As a general rule of thumb, a company that takes care of its equipment will also take care of its people. Usually, It is an underlying philosophy of the onwer.

I wish yuo well in your new job.

The Expert answers:

Access and ease are often the first improvements most recycling programs can take on. Beyond that, is capability; as in the capability to increase the types of materials recycled.

The ultimate nirvana in being ecologically minded in terms of waste streams is to eliminate them (ok let’s try for significantly reduce them) in the first place. Next to that is to reduce both landfill and recycling streams through the Re-use, Re-purposing, or Complete-use of those materials already within produced and/or owned. The ideal result of this reduction is to be left with waste that is contaminate free. There is an old saying: “One man’s waste is the next man’s treasure.” It pretty much summarizes the required theme for successful recycling: The materials collected must be usable in some way. On a mass scale such as a community wide recycling effort, the costs for recycling cannot be prohibitive and, more often than not must be cheaper than the alternative of land filling the recycled/collected items. The ideal would be that all of the landfill garbage stream could be recycled and each type sold at a profit for the community; this is certainly not a reality in today’s world.

To honestly address your question however, we would need to know more about what your current personal and community recycling habits and efforts before we can tell you how to improve upon them….Before there was freecycle.org, many communities had industry backed efforts to redistribute commercially generated chemical waste to others within the community and/or learning institutions. This “waste” may or may not have been a business process resultant or, simply a left over quantity of chemicals that would else wise have to be disposed of as hazardous waste. Cleaning chemicals, paints, gardening/pest control chemicals, and “chemistry shelf” chemicals were among the items. Often, they were listed on a computer in a spread sheet or data base format. From there, many communities found that they were disposing of quite a quantity of construction debris and similar types of listings and/or data bases were begun for the re-distribution of construction debris. Both were basically a freecycle.org type of board for the re-distribution of still usable, commercial materials although, not necessarily for free. A number of communities require a refundable deposit for specific types of disposable containers, prohibit some sorts of disposable containers, or require that businesses who sell specific types of items accept for free the return for recycling the same used items/materials for recycle. (Personally, I think we could reduce the amount of packaging, particularly plastic bubble packages, if we required each and every store to accept the used packaging. Imagine the amount of choking that just Wal-Mart, Target, Safeway, and Kroger would do if one of the states ruled that they had to accept back every piece of plastic packaging returned from their customers. My guess is that we would be moving to less packaging and more readily recyclable packaging country wide; the lobbying efforts against it could even help to boost a poorer state’s whole economy for the duration of the campaign!)

Since then, many communities have actively encouraged the development of companies and/or industries that can handle large scale collection and then Re-use or Re-purposing of what would else wise be landfill waste or, recycled waste that would have to be shipped out of area. Much of this is done through the re-zoning or permitting the collection of and recycling/re-use/re-purposing activities on a space of land, the direction of folks to these locations when getting rid of certain types of materials, the refusal to accept certain types of materials within their landfill systems, the contracting of solid waste disposal to these companies of specific types of materials, allowing the use of the resultant product within their jurisdiction, the promoting of the resultant product, and/or the requirement of use of the resultant product. For example, many communities prohibit the tossing of compostable yard waste in their landfill garbage stream while enabling and contracting for a separate yard waste collection system, permitting huge chipping and composting facilities, requiring the use of the resultant material on government properties, and enabling the sale of additional product within the community. Sometimes, this is accompanied by a number of tax breaks, benefits, and even the provision of in-kind goods, services, facilities, equipment, and/or loans. Other communities have spent a reasonable amount of “tax payer dollars” when building new facilities and/or retro-fitting existing facilities to enable the use of what would else wise be waste such as methane and/or sanitary composting of solid waste from sewage treatment facilities.

Between the current grass roots emphasis on “being green” and the economic realities on both the house hold and commun

The Expert answers:

I recycle not because I am terrified but because I can, why should we just keep taking from the earth when we have the ability to reuse??
Its cheaper, safer and could possibly help us all in the future.

When you recycle you are helping other companies to buy recycled products paper plastic ect and cut their costs which come round and make the item cheaper to buy.
It just makes sense to use what we have instead of wasting it in a dump where it can not help anyone.