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Articles of Recycling- write a fact with your first initial and last name
Articles of Recycling- write a fact with your first initial and last name
Plastic Bottle vs Aluminum Chris Buti [lifehacker.com]
Plastic made cheap and is not repurposed easily
Aluminum expensive to produce and 80% reused
Most people recycle aluminum
Recycling glass bottles Ava Stephan wikihow.com
Rinse the bottles out before recycling.
Before you toss away the glass bottle make sure it's made of recyclable materials.
Most glass bottles are made of durable materials that can be broken down.
WikiHow.com-Recycling Plastic Corey Kilroy
Take off the plastic cover around the water bottle before recycling
When the plastic is recycle it can be turned into carpet, furniture, and bottled products
Make sure the bottle is cleaned out
Impact in perice county Bryon H
paper and plastic such as milk and juice cartons will not be accepted.
these changes took effect in april after having a meeting with disposel company repersentives back in december
thanks to china changes peirce county has revisted their glass recycling to improve the evirment
Azree Carter-How Biodegradable Plastic Bags Don't Live Up To Their Name- PBS.org
Marketed as eco-friendly
Bags were buried, exposed to light, and submerged in water and some could still hold groceries.
Most "biodegradable" plastics break down better in facilities where they can get the right temperature and bacteria count
But during a study, over the course of three years, they did not break down to the desired affect.
Most people only use a plastic bag for an average of 12 min before throwing it away.
Letters: The growing Recycling Crisis
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2019/03/readers-respond-americas-recycling-crisis/584800/
Kylie Ferrier
The U.S. can either pay much higher rates to get rid of their recycling, or throw it all away. (China restricted imports)
A good example of a viable basic setup: have recycling be free to new city residents, who pay only landfill fees.
Cities and organizations have struggled for decades to advance recycling beyond about 35 percent of the waste volume
Tyler Browning biodegradable plastic bags
after three years of being buried it could still hold 2.5kg
most of the plastic bags wont break down because they are underground and they need heat and exposure to break down
plastic bags need a certain inviorment to break down
link to www.theatlantic.com
Recycling cardboard Conserve Energy Future
Amber Fackrell
Shredding: Done to tear the cardboard into small, easy to use pieces.
Filtered and De-inked: It is then filtered to get rid of any foreign objects.
The Final stage: The cleaned pulp is blended with new production materials which is put to dry on a flat conveyor belt and heated to produce a new product.
sciencing.com Takoda Houck
50% of all alumni cans are recycled
Cans also are more efficient to recycle than bottles
only 10% of bottles are recycled