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Waste and Recycling - Coggle Diagram
Waste and Recycling
Recycling
making
new things
Paper
Newspaper
mixed with hot water and turned into pulp(remove ink)
pulp is then made into new paper
Metal
melted in furnaces
formed into sheets
Aluminum
crushed > shredded > melted
made into large sheets
Glass
melted and made into new glass items
Garbage
United States throw out more than 230 million tons
2 km per person each day.
Most of the waste is
buried in landfills.
can leak chemicals
Some of it is burned in big
furnaces
incinerators
Plastic
hard to recycle
Seven kinds
must
be recycled separately
A number on the bottom can tell what kind of
plastic
cleaned > shredded into flakes > melted and formed