Benefits of Recycling

Recycling isn’t just saving materials from the landfill; it’s also saving expenses and resources for communities that participate. Recycling can help save money by diverting solid waste from regular garbage collection. This saves companies money, and preserves the community’s energy and natural resource supply.

Some of the many benefits of recycling are the prevention of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and supporting local economies by creating jobs and tax revenue. Recycling programs can also help to improve water and air quality and are building blocks for sustainable growing communities.

• Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators.
• Conserves natural resources such as timber, water and minerals.
• Increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials.
• Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials.
• Saves energy.

Cutting climate-changing carbon emissions Because recycling means you need to use less energy on sourcing and processing new raw materials, it produces lower carbon emissions. Reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere is vital for stopping disastrous climate change.

The reason why recycling is so important is that it prevents pollution, reduces the need to harvest new raw materials, saves energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saves money, reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, and allows products to be used to their fullest extent.

Pros and Cons of Recycling

Another major disadvantage of recycling is that it is often unsafe and unhygienic. Recyclable items consists of solid wastes and other kinds of debris which may be dirty or may cause widespread pollution. Such kind of waste is usually mixed with water and can lead to leach ate formation and can result in toxification.

Recycling reduces the need for raw materials and hence preserves the rainforests. Harmful chemicals and greenhouse gasses emitted from waste in the landfills harm the environment. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste. When products are made from raw materials, large amounts of energy are used.

Items that cannot be recycled:

• Plastic bags or recyclables inside plastic bags.
• Takeaway coffee cups.
• Disposable nappies.
• Garden waste.
• Polystyrene (foam)
• Bubble wrap.
• Syringes or medical waste.
• Dead animals.

Yes please

• Clean Plastic bottles.
• Clean Plastic pots, tubs and trays.
• Clean cans and tins (including lids)
• Empty aerosols (except gardening, DIY, hazardous)
• Clean glass bottle and jars (any colour)
• Clean food and drink cartons (foil & waxed lined)
• Bottle and jar tops.
• Clean foil (including food trays)

It’s important that you remove lids and throw them out before tossing the plastic container in the recycling bin. They usually have a higher melting point and can ruin the entire load of plastic that is trying to be recycled. Remember to always unscrew the lid or cap from your plastic containers before recycling.

What Can Go in Dry Mixed Recycling Bins?

• Paper – e.g. dry waste paper, office & printer paper, newspapers, magazines.
• Cardboard – e.g. corrugated cardboard, cereal boxes, cardboard boxes.
• Metal – e.g. clean and empty aluminium drink cans and food cans.

When recycling, we suggest you empty your bottles and put the caps back on the bottles. Note, however, your recycling center may ask that caps be off.

Can bottle caps be recylced? The closures we use on bottles are 100 percent recyclable from a technical standpoint and highly recycled. They are made from high-density materials selected for their compatibility with most recycling systems.

Six-Pack Beverage Rings The rings are made of plastic #4 (LDPE) and can be recycled in programs that accept low-density polyethylene resin.

The crinkly shiny lining inside chip and snack bags is made out of mixed material, including aluminum and plastic. These materials cannot be separated to be recycled and must go in the trash. Simply crush up the material in your hand, and if it bounces back into it’s shape, it’s not recyclable. …

Turtles Could Eat These Six-Pack Rings Instead of Getting Caught in Them. Americans have known for decades that plastic six-pack rings are bad news. The plastic rings tangle up turtles, they muzzle and starve dolphins, and they atomize into the same gnarly plastic bits that are killing birds and fish that eat them.

Yes, it’s true, Ziploc® brand bags are recyclable. Your used Ziploc® brand bags (clean and dry) go in the same bins as those plastic shopping bags.

Plastics like clothes hangers, grocery bags, and toys aren’t always recyclable in your curbside bin. Other things that aren’t recyclable include Styrofoam, bubble wrap, dishes, and electronic cords.

As long as your plastic bags are clean and dry, you can recycle not only plastic produce bags, but also newspaper bags; bread bags; furniture bags; zip-lock bags (with the hard plastic parts removed); dry cleaning bags; packaging for napkins, paper towels and toilet paper; plastic liner from cereal boxes; case wrap and …

Will they melt? Well, yeah, if you subject them to high temperatures. Polyethylene plastic, which is typically used to make these bags, will start to soften at about 195 degrees Fahrenheit (90.6 degrees Celsius). If you put them in boiling water (around 212 degrees F or 100 degrees C), they will melt.

You can boil food in freezer bags. You need to take note though, this is not a universal yes or no type of question.

You should not pour boiling water into a Ziploc bag. The high temperature can cause the material to break down and leech microscopic plastic particles into the food.

They [Ziploc] do not recommend using any ZIPLOC® brand Bag in boiling water, or to “boil” in the microwave. ZIPLOC® brand Bags are made from polyethylene plastic with a softening point of approximately 195 degrees Fahrenheit.

Add rice and water to a pot. The ratio I use is 1 cup of rice to 1 1/2 cups of water. Place the pot, uncovered onto the stove and heat on high until it boils. I then take about 1 1/2 cups of cooked rice (what we would normally use per meal) and place it into a quart-sized Ziplock freezer bag.