Your Questions About Recycling

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The research shows it’s Washington if we are talking about the recycling rate per capita for homes. Callifornia is the largest recycler though. Here’s the data and a link.

According to Department of Conservation statistics released today, Californians recycled 5.8 billion California Refund Value bottles and cans from January to July, the highest six-month figure ever.

“Recycling bottles and cans is one of the many ways Californians can express their commitment to the state’s environment and natural resources,” said California Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman. “It’s heartening to see recycling on the rise, and this should serve as a reminder to everyone to recycle where you live, work and play.”

Numbers for the first half of 2004 show recycling is up for aluminum, glass and plastic beverage containers. If the trend continues, Californians will recycle more than one billion additional bottles and cans in 2004 than in 2003.

Overall, the recycling rate of CRV containers for the first six months of this year was 63 percent, up from 58 percent for the January-June period last year. By the end of 2003, the recycling rate had fallen to 55 percent, the lowest annual rate since the CRV program began in 1987.

The increase in the recycling rate can be tied to a number of things, including a higher refund value that took effect in January 2004. Ongoing efforts by the Department of Conservation have resulted in greater public awareness of the need to recycle and better customer service at thousands of privately owned recycling centers in the state. Also, DOC funding to cities and counties and grants to a variety of entities have resulted in more recycling opportunities, and outreach efforts have increased recycling at private businesses like office buildings and restaurants.

More than 19 billion CRV bottles and cans will be sold in California this year. Containers that aren’t recycled represent hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed CRV – cash that should go back into Californians’ pockets. In 2003, some eight billion bottles and cans were thrown away, worth an estimated $300 million in CRV.

In addition to the cash reclaimed through redemption, energy is saved as well: a single aluminum can, if recycled, saves enough electricity to run a television for nearly three hours.

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UN statistics show an old scrap recycle rate of about 50% for the USA.

Here is a pretty decent report on metal recycling rates from the UN Environment Programs office:

http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/Portals/24102/PDFs/Metals_Recycling_Rates_110412-1.pdf

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Go to http://earth911.com/ and enter your information. Although this website doesn’t tell you which agencies will pay for recyclables, you can find this information out with a few phone calls. Obviously, if you search the Internet for this information you get a lot of articles with statistics, but no actual “here is where you can take your recyclables.”

I’m assuming Ohio doesn’t have a bottle/can deposit law like some states.

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I do not have statistics but can tell you from the town that my parent live in Germany:
85% of all household rubbish is recycled (separate for paper, plastic, metal, glas, batteries, and organics).
Since the households have to pay by weight for any general rubbish but get the separated rubbish collected for free, it is a very efficient system.

All bottles glas or plastic and cans have a deposit on them when you purchase then, which gets returned when you bring it back to the shops, there is very little litter on the streets.

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Kayla

Use a t-test …

Ho: mean = 1
Ha: mean > 1
Alpha = 0.01

t-statistics = (1.1 – 1) / (1 / sqrt 16) = 0.40

P=Value = P(t > 0.4) = 0.347

Since P > 0.01, do NOT reject the null … There is significant evidence that the mean is not greater than 1

hope that helps

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First, give your introductions:
*Define plastic and define recycling (mention that plastic is from _____ which is a nonrenewable resource, and recycling is one of the 3Rs, then expound)
*state the importance of plastic (convince the class that we need plastic and none can substitute the uses of plastic – but we need to use plastics wisely and efficiently)
*if you can mention types of plastics, its good (plastic bags, bottles)
*also mention ways how people dispose plastic
-for example, burning and then site the negative effects of burning plastics
*then state: why is there a need to recycle plastic? (2 sentences will do) = state some statistics: say that: “Today, __ millions of tons of plastics are thrown everywhere. If this will continue to rise, it is expected that by the year___, the world will be a world of plastic)
*then mention: what are the ways to recycle plastic? (there are a lot of ways, like: reprocessing, making bags out of it, among others)

avoid lengthy paragraphs.
And when reporting, prepare a power point presentation on the outline of your topics.
The familiarize yourself with the other details. If preparing a power point presentation, don’t put everything there, ok? Hope this helps

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Recycling. Statistics, whats recyclable, who makes money, who loses it, future impact.

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Maybe this will help?

Http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics

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Actually, the Government can’t add recycling booths to every grocery store. They can’t mandate a private business do anything. Also, a Conservative Republican would instead of righting a Bill on recycling centers would write a Bill giving economic incentive for a private company to create a recycling center that collected the recycled goods and then sell them to China since in California you can’t create the industry to recycle in State.