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From:ankit To:the world I think we need to make are world nice and clean. We are all a big community I hope we all recycle reuse and use old cans milk bottles are other bottles and reuse them by putting drinks milk or water to take to school or any thing other. And we should use less water to safe are world.

Recycling is the process of turning used waste and materials into new products. This prevents potentially useful materials from being wasted as well as reducing energy use and pollution.

Recycling is part of the waste disposal hierarchy - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

A wide variety of different materials can be recycled, including paper, plastic, glass, metal, textiles and electronic equipment.

The idea of recycling isn’t something new, historical evidence shows that humans have been recycling various materials for thousands of years.

There are different methods of waste collection. These include drop off centers (where waste materials are dropped off at a specified location), buy back centers (where certain materials are exchanged for money), and curbside collection (where recycling vehicles are used to pick up waste material intended for recycling along residential streets).

Powerful magnets are used to sort through different types of metals. Recycled paper can be made from three different types of paper; mill broke (paper scrap and trimmings), pre-consumer waste (paper that was discarded before consumer use), and post-consumer waste (paper discarded after consumer use, such as old newspapers).

Recycling plastic can be more difficult than other materials and plastics are not typically recycled into the same type of plastic.

Different types of plastics are labeled by numbers (plastic identification code), for example polyethylene (PET) is number 1 and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is number 3.

Recycling old aluminum uses only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminum.

Aluminum can be recycled from cans, bicycles, computers, cookware, wires, cars, planes and other sources.

Glass recycling is often separated into colors because glass keeps its color after recycling. For every ton of recycled glass turned into new products, 315 kilograms of extra carbon dioxide that would have been released during the creation of new glass are saved.

Around 80 billion of aluminum beverage cans are used each year which is the most common use of aluminum. When aluminum can is recycled we save enough electricity to run a TV set for 3 hours or lit 15 light bulbs of 7 watts a piece for 4 hours. An aluminum can is recycled and back on the shelf in just two months time. When an aluminum can is thrown it will not break down even after 500 years. The amount of aluminum thrown away each year is enough to rebuild our commercial airplane fleet by four times. More than half of the aluminum cans that are produce get recycled. The value of an empty aluminum can is one cent.

Plastic Recycling Facts

Two and half million plastic bottles are used every hour in the US with just a quarter of them being recycled. A plastic bag that is not biodegradable can take up to 400 years to be broken down. A ton of plastic being trashed will take over almost 7 cubic yards in a landfill. In the US every year 25 million of Styrofoam cups are thrown away with the majority not being recycled. There are 7 different categories of plastic as far recycling is concerned numbered from 1 to 7. The category number that a plastic product belongs to can be found inside the recycling chasing arrows. Keep in mind that not all categories are collected for recycling and that the categories collected might vary from area to area (for more information see: plastic recycling numbers) Glass Recycling Facts

A glass bottle can take 40 centuries to be broken down if not recycled. Glass can keep getting recycled since it never wears down. In the US only a third of the glass bottles and containers are recycled every year. A 100 watt light bulb can be lit for 4 hours from the energy saved by recycling a glass bottle or power a PC for almost half an hour. The reason that collection points require you to separate glass by color (green, clear and brown) has to do with the fact that the coloring makes the glasses chemically incompatible and impossible to be reprocessed together.