10 facts about Recycling
1. Recycling is processing used matters to produce new things, aimed at preventing waste of useful materials. The most commonly used material are aluminum, steel, plastic, glass, and paper; however, textile, wood, electronics, old batteries, and even food or garden waste are recycled.
2. The international symbol for recycling is three arrows forming a triangle, each arrow representing a stage of the recycling process (collection – re-manufacture – resale).
3. The economic efficiency of recycling is still debated, as it sometimes requires more budget to process, than to produce, or is too difficult.
4. There are plants that sort the used materials automatically (Single Stream), contributing to a 30% increase in recycling rates in the areas where such plants exist.
5. Iron and steel are the easiest materials to recycle and the most commonly reprocessed materials in the world; aluminum is a widely-recycled matter as well, and one of the most efficient ones, as its recycling saves up to 95% energy of producing new aluminum.
6. Proper disposal of older batteries, containing mercury and cadmium, is required by law in many countries.
7. After recycling, paper looses a great lot of its quality, because fibres are broken down. At the same time, recycling of paper saves 70% energy and many trees, required to produce new paper.
8. Glass is totally recyclable material: it can be 100% reprocessed on and on, since its structure doesn’t degenerate in the process.
9. Recycling has been known since very old times, as long ago as in 400 BC. It was a common practice, due to the scarcity of resources.
10. Remember, that one reprocessed glass bottle saves enough energy to power a PC for 25 min.; one reprocessed tin can saves enough energy to power a TV for three hrs; and one recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a light bulb for three hrs.
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