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RESEARCH:

Information from booklet:

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(Made and Posted by: Paulina)

FORM: Recycling is the process where solid wastes are transformed and make possible the production of new products, classifying rubbish is when items are recollected from the fountain and the recycling process is made.

Recycling help us take advantage of many solid waste.

A solid waste is any solid material that domestic activities create and stays abandoned but it is posible take advantage of them. They are classified by organic and inorganic wastes. Organic wastes discompose easily such as leftover food, leaves and plants. Inorganic wastes are hand made materials such as glass, paper, plastic, cardboard and metals.

Paper and cardboard: We can recycle: Paper, news paper, magazines and cardboard. We CAN'T recycle: News paper with bright laminates and paper-carton.

Metals: We CAN recycle: Cans of juice, soda, beer, and more. We CAN'T recycle: Paint cans and others.

Plastic: Types of plastic:
 * PET - Bottles
 * HDPE - All type of bottles with very bright colors or hard plastic
 * PVC - Water bottles of 1 or 1,5 litters, when crushed get a white color
 * PE-ID - Food, milk and other packages
 * PP - Potato chips, pasta and more packages
 * PS - Disposable cups, cutlery and more

Glass: We CAN recycle: Bottles of drinks such as sodas, juices, liquor, vines, etc. Jars of any food and broken glass. We CAN'T recyc le: Windshield broken glass, window broken glass, mirror, tiles, light bulbs.

FUNCTION: In order to recycle the classification of rubbish in needed.

Paper and Cardboard: To produce a ton of paper 10 or 15 trees are needed, 7.800 kilovatios per hour of energy and a great amount of water. To be able to to recycle paper and cardboard they need to be clean and dry, paper shouldn't be wrinkled but ripped.

Glass: To recycle metal we need to give it dry, without labels, without metal, not mixed with organic waste, and without rocks or sand.

CAUSATION:

Paper and Cardboard: To produce a ton of paper 10 or 15 trees are needed, 7.800 kilovatios per hour of energy and a great amount of water. When paper is recycled:
 * The logging of trees decreases
 * Water and Energy saving
 * Air and Water contamination decreases that the toxins of the production create

Metals:
 * Save 62% of energy
 * Save water and energy
 * Decrease contamination.

Glass: It is a material that is easily recycled. It is better to recycle glass because the recycling process requires less temperture than to produce it.

There are 3 ways of using classified items:
 * 1) By recycling them
 * 2) Reusing them
 * 3) Making compost

Classifying rubbish and recycling helps to:
 * Reduce trash
 * Protect natural resources such as water, air, and ground to live in a healthy environment.
 * Protects environment
 * Saves energy and raw material
 * Decreases contamination
 * Employment
 * Saves recollection cost

Books:

(Recycle - 363.72 BAR, Global Warming - 363.73 MUR, Green files/Waste and recycling - 363.7 PAR, Why should I recycle - 363.7 GRE)

Information from books (Made and Posted by: Felipe Velasquez and Paulina - May 26)

__Recycle - 363.72 BAR:__ (Made and Posted by: Paulina - May 29)

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Recycling is when something isn't thrown away but it is used again. Metals are cheap to recycle and recycling this, takes a little fraction of energy used to do new ones. There is a law call the law of the 3 r’s that are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. (Felipe) Rest of food could be used as compost for the garden.

//__ CAUSATION: __// It is cheaper to recycle than to make new products and it helps the environment by saving natural resources. Trees are used to produce many things but chopping trees destroys animal's homes and damages the area. It takes less water and energy to do new things than to recycle. If plastic is burned it produces poisoned gasses.

//__ FUNCTION: __// Rubbish is take away and put into landfills that are big holes on the Earth. When the hole is full a layer of land is spread over the top, this can take hundreds of years to make rubbish discompose. Some plastic last many years to discompose. Clothes can be also recycled to make furniture, paper, and mattresses as well as sold again.

__Global Warming - 363.73 MUR:__ (Felipe lost information)

__Green files/Waste and recycling - 363.7 PAR:__ (Made and Posted by: Paulina and Felipe- May 26)

Develop countries participation

Japan 69% incinerated 27% land filled 4% recycled

Netherlands / Holland 38% recycled 35% landfilled 27% incinerated

Spain: 84% land filled 12% recycled 4% incinerated

Switzerland : 46% incinerated 40% recycle 9% landfilled

United kingdom: 84% land filled 9% incinerated 7% recycled

U.S.A 57% Land filled 27% recycled 16% incinerated

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If toxic and nuclear wastes are thrown to the sea animals could get infected and die. If human catch infected animals and sell them even humans can get affected.

Most of house wastes are recyclable. This is the quantity of wastes:

Food leftovers: 30% - Can be used to make compost for garden Paper: 30% - Can be recycled to make new paper and cardboard Metals: 10% - Can be melted to make new items Glass: 10% - Can be melted and reshaped Organic materials (wood, cotton, etc.): 10% - Some can be recycled and reused Plastic: 10% - Can be recycled to make new reshaped items such as bottles

//__ FUNCTION: __// Toxic and nuclear wastes such as batteries are usually treated in special centers to make them less harmful.

__Why should I recycle - 363.7 GRE: __ (Made and Posted by: Paulina - May 26)

//__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">FORM: __// <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Materials are classified according to their type so it receives the correct recycling process.

(Made and Posted by: Felipe - May 19)

EXTRA INFORMATION Information found in a documentary = the uncomfortable true

(CHANGE - CAUSATION - CONNECTION)

In 2006 and 2005 the contamination was bigger and the global warming was very strong affecting the planet, the ozone layer was destroying in those time. Now more develop countries are participating in recycle and other countries have create easy ways to classify rubbish and that has help the planet. Some populate countries have daily a 160 thousand of waste of rubbish and that contaminate so they are inventing the classify rubbish where the people now where do the plastic paper and cardboard and ordinaries go. The part of not recycling and contaminate more is affecting some countries very important needs. For example: Now in Colombia are fluids and in some countries are loosing there important resources as water and lands, it is very common disasters a drought in a countries of Africa.

For global warming animals are loosing their habitats and their are dying as the polar bear and sea animals. This documentary was film in 2006 with a presidential candidate call Al Gore.

(Made and Posted by: Felipe - Week 3)


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Re cycle: Re, come from the world repeat that means do again many things. Cycle, it is a process where you can see every step for a project or any thing.

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">** Introduction: Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials.reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. **

Change:

History: This movement or process have been use in many times and in all the human history such as: Origin: Recycle have been a common practice during all of the human history, with recorded advocates as far back as a plato in 400 bc. Plato was a classical greck physic. Also recycle have been use in wartime and also in postwar. The benefits of recycle are that the objective is to dont waste energy and water and any important material in the human lives.


 * (Made and Posted by: Felipe - Week 3) **

There is a law call the law of the three R that is: reduce, re use, recicle

Recycling means: Energy saving Saving water Raw material savings Less impact on ecosystems and natural resources Save time, money and effort


 * CONNECTION = Felipe V = books = global warming, recycle. Movies: the uncomfortable true **
 * Classifying rubbish is connect with many things such as global warming, ozone layer and many other things. The classifying rubbish is very usefull to recycle like that way a person will now where do the rubbish **
 * Classifying rubbish is connect with many things such as global warming, ozone layer and many other things. The classifying rubbish is very usefull to recycle like that way a person will now where do the rubbish **


 * (Made and Posted by: Felipe - Week 3) **

CHANGE = Felipe V = internet ´= [|www.enwikipedia.com/wiki.org/reciclar]

Recycle have been a common practice in the begin of the human life, but now they are inventing more efficent ways to recycle such as the classifying rubbish that tell you where to throw the rubbish, when they invent classifying rubbish the universal colors where three : green (ordinaries),red (sanitaries), and blue ( plastic); now there are changing and puting more colors like yellow ( paper and cardboard) and grey (metal)
 * Since we are making more specific classification now. **


 * (Made and Posted by: Felipe - Week 3) **

CAUSATION = Felipe V = Internet = [|www.http://basuraorgnicaeinorgnica.blogspot.com/]

During classifying and recycling rubbish, you can find benefits and difficulties. The benefits of these marvellous ideas is to reduce the contamination in the 3 ways: air contamination, water contamintion and soil contamination. The difficulties are: it is necesary to teach the people and they need to understand the importance of this fact.


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GREEN is a term now widely used to describe buildings designed and constructed with minimal negative impact to the environment and with an emphasis on conservation of resources, energy efficiency, and healthful interior spaces. (Student Questions)


 * (Made and Posted by: Paulina - Week 3) **

LOI 2: (Benefits)
 * ** Battery Recycling **, **Print Cartridges, Cell Phones,** ** Fluorescent Lamp ** are one of the elements that contaminate most the environment. This means they need to be sent to an special company to be recycled.
 * ** Less oil production process's contamination **
 * ** Cardboard, Paper Metal, Glass and plastic Recycling **
 * Recycling reduce the amount of glass, paper and plastic that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills because it's being reused.
 * Employment
 * Decreases the consuming of natural resources. You reduce the amount of resources needed to make the same item compared to making it without recycling
 * Makes people environmentally aware
 * You can get money for what you recycle (selling items)
 * It saves natural resources - it takes less energy to make something with recycled material rather something new
 * It saves space in landfills. The items that we recycle are not biodegradable.
 * Save the earth, save animals and save humanity
 * If you recycle paper, trees that make oxygen for us to breath live longer.
 * If you recycle cans, the energy that would have been used to make more cans is being saved for the community.
 * Saving energy
 * Decreasing greenhouse gases.
 * IN CONCLUSION: Decreasing global warming.


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 * // Disadvantages of RECYCLING: //**
 * Separate factories, cause more pollution and energy consumption for transport, sorting, cleaning and storage;
 * Pollutants produced by the recycling process itself, including chemical stews when breaking down different products;
 * Some recycling is not cost-efficient and annually results in a net loss.
 * Only the recycling of aluminum really makes any money, whereas plastics and paper are expensive, wasteful and overly difficult;
 * Adds to taxes
 * Creation of low-quality jobs. Jobs include sifting through garbage to separate it, dealing with the toxins from the breakdown process, and other manual-intensive labor tasks;
 * A considerable percentage of items marked as recyclable end up trashed or burned anyway due to poor quality, contaminants
 * Takes time and effort to do the process

Well-run recycling programs **cost less** to operate than waste collection, land filling, and incineration.


 * The more people recycle, the cheaper it gets. **

Two years after calling recycling a $40 million drain on the city, New York City leaders realized that a redesigned, efficient recycling system could actually **save the city $20 million** and they have now signed a 20-year recycling contract.

Recycling helps **families save money**, especially in communities with pay-as-you-throw programs.


 * Well-designed programs save money ** . Communities have many options available to make their programs more cost-effective, including maximizing their recycling rates, implementing pay-as-you-throw programs, and including incentives in waste management contracts that encourage disposal companies to recycle more and dispose of less.


 * Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. jobs, ** $236 billion in gross annual sales and $37 billion in annual payrolls.

Public sector investment in local recycling programs pays great dividends by **creating private sector jobs.** For every job collecting recyclables, there are 26 jobs in processing the materials and manufacturing them into new products.

Recycling **creates four jobs** for every one job created in the waste management and disposal industries.

Thousands of U.S. **companies have saved millions of dollars** through their voluntary recycling programs. They wouldn't recycle if it didn't make economic sense.

Consequences of NOT recycling: (LOI 3)

http://www.squidoo.com/top-reason-to-recycle
 * Why should you recycle? **


 * 10. ** Higher fuel prices. Producing more aluminum, textiles, plastic, paper, and other brand new materials from scratch will consume far more energy than salvaging and reusing old materials. The more brand new products that must be created, the more energy used. The more energy used, less fuel is available. Less fuel, higher price.

**9.** Your children! Do you really want to leave this whole mess for your children to fix? A __ [|world without recycling] __ is going to be a very hard existence down the line. Do your part now and make it easier on future generations.

**8.** More work and more __ consumer debt __. The higher fuel costs rise, the more everyone will have to work to catch up with rising fuel costs. The only alternative would be to fall into debt.

**7.** Contaminated drinking water. Throwing away toxic materials like paint, batteries, __ CFL bulbs __, and chemicals will inevitably find their way back into the groundwater. Public water plants can't filter out everything, not to mention it affects wildlife, too. You can make your current water cleaner with these __ [|recommended tap water filters] __.


 * 6. ** The world becomes a giant dump. Landfills everywhere, garbage smell all over the place. The earth is only so big, where are you going to put all of this garbage? The only solution is to reuse things you've used before and to not use as much stuff.

**5.** It's less expensive than throwing it away. Dumpsters cost money, and so does __ trash pickup __. __ [|Recycling] __ is free.

**4.** More jobs. Recycling creates far more opportunities for employment than landfills and incinerators. More jobs will stimulate the economy and lower prices of goods.


 * 3. ** It kills wildlife. Creating more waste not only takes up more space that wildlife use, but they use it as a feeding ground. Animals don't know any better than to scavenge off of our food scraps and waste, and can't diffrentiate between safe and unsafe food. There are also a number of harmful contaminants and materials in landfills that will easily kill or trap animals, like fishing line, nets, and plastic can rings (the kind that are on six pack containers to hold them together).

**2.** Cleaner air. Creating virgin products instead of recycling in most cases uses much more energy, and creates unhealthy emissions. Continued emissions leads to unhealthy living conditions and smog.

**1.** This is one point that everyone will understand: money. Creating brand new packaging, metals, plastics, paper and other materials on the average uses far more energy than recycling previously used materials. Use this as your arguing point if some stubborn people don't want to see it your way. Most people will understand when you mention the money and economic factor. A good example is aluminum. As opposed to creating new aluminum, recycling old aluminum uses 95% less energy.


 * (Made and Posted by: Paulina - Week 3) **

Bin's Colors: (Student Questions)

It depends.

The most common colors are:

Europe : blue - for paper, green - for compostables, yellow - for all type of package, which marked with "green dot" Very often colors of bins are established with regional laws

In North America: - blue - for all "dry recyclables" In Toronto, blue - for "dry" recyclables, gray - for paper, green - for "compostables".