Recycling is process and step in collecting and sorting waste for the purpose of producing new products. In Malaysia, the recycling program was officially introduced on December 2, 2000 and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (ministry) has determined that on 11 November of each year as a National Recycling Day for Malaysia. Recycling process has involves a variety of solid waste including plastic. Plastics is the solid waste that cannot be decomposed, so, through the recycling process of this material, it can help to reduce the quantities of solid wastes in landfill and reduce a water and air pollution. This material needs to go through several phases of the recycling process before it becomes new grade of plastic in a suitable format. In general, plastic recycling process can be classified into five stages which are collected, sorting and separation, shredding or chipping, washing, and extruding, as well known as pelleting. (Refer to Figure 1 Appendix 1).
The first stages of the plastic recycling process are collecting all plastic materials. There are two sources of plastics, “plastics for recycling come from two main sources: post-consumer plastics and postindustrial plastics”(Wansbrough, n.d, p.4). Post-consumer plastics are unused plastics that are collected either in garbage bins on the street or in the recycling bin. Meanwhile, for the post industrial plastics, it is the unused plastics that come from industry, such as off cuts or damaged batches. Then, this material will be collected by the recycling company and it will be taken to the recycling plant for restructuring activities.
Followed in the second stage, it was sorting and separate process. At this stage, the plastic will be divided according to the criteri...
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...t. This cycle is very important in reducing the production of natural resources, which are, can be leading to the environmental degradation. It also helps to reduce the number of plastic bottles wasted which will undoubtedly pollute the environment and our lives. All in all, recycling plastic can help in maintaining the conservation and preservation of nature towards the better life for the future if we know the benefits is.
In other words, this invented technology should be support by all means because of the important in protecting the earth environment. There should be a complete knowledge about this process so that each of us able to give a hand in reducing the waste and transfer it to a better product. A good and better environment can be produce if recycling were taken into practice. But still knowledge and awareness is important factor to make it successful.
Most of the necessities humans need are provided in supermarkets, in fact supermarkets have become a necessity for our everyday life. They are now the main source of water, food, clothes and everyday tools. Therefore, the plastic bags demanded and supplied in this industry increase every day. In the past decade, we produced as much plastic as we did in the whole twentieth century (Freinkel, 2011). This exponential increase of a non-biodegradable material has negatively impacted our environment immensely. Plastic production requires our dwindling fossil fuel resources, robs away animal lives, litters our beautiful landscapes and even affects our very own well-being. Hence, if plastic production doesn’t diminish immediately, we will suffer great
Recycling has become a part of many people in Canada’s daily life, and for good reason. It is a vital part of how we are able to sustain our planet. Recycling comes in various different forms, with various methods of how it is completed. Many of the methods include no use of any chemical reactions in the process such as paper, glass, and wood. However there are a few types where chemical reactions are an important part of them. These types are kinds of metal, oil, and waste water recycling. In this essay I will be discussing the types and the uses of reactions, as well as the impact recycling has on our communities and our environment.
Many people believe that we should not recycle anymore, but this is not the case. We, the people of the world, need to continue to recycle because we do not want our children to grow up in a world where there are no certain species of animals due to recycling failures. We also do not want our children to grow up thinking that it is okay that they throw their garbage on the ground, and not have to pick it up. We need to teach our children that they need to take care of the earth that they are living on, because they only get one. Recycling is one of the most beneficial environmental issues that we have here on this earth. Recycling saves energy, limits pollution and supports several environmental factors of the economy. “In 2003, the savings from recycling 54 billion aluminum cans exceeded the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil- or the amount of gas the U.S. uses in one day,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA estimates that 200 million gallons of used oil are not disposed of properly, and if we were to dispose the oil properly then we could keep the oil from polluting the ground and the fresh water source. According to E. Takatori, “… While on-going societal regulation treats material recycling as the dominant cycle, the properties of recycled plastic remain the most port
... converting plastic waste into useful products are being affected by pollution; this contamination is found within containers where plastics are collected. But the same risk of pollution carries downside consequences in which workers and people responsible for cleaning and disinfecting the plastic materials are not doing the best to eliminate plastic waste, and to disinfect the infected bacteria and microorganisms from the atmosphere and environment. Organizations from China and India are the largest in the world, they collect and purchase used plastic from United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America (Minguez 2013). These companies do not bother to sanitize the products before the recycling process; for this reason the planet earth is getting a worse environmental condition, and it is destroying lives of living beings, and natural resources as well (Uddin 2014).
A. Recycling is the recovery of useful materials such as paper, glass, plastic and metals from the municipal solid waste stream to use to make new products, reducing the amount of virgin raw materials needed. (http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal - I plan to cite on PP)
Being convenient enough for everyday use and even tasting better to some, plastic bottles are a popular way of consuming beverages. They are convenient and to some people, can even taste better. However, the process of manufacturing and transporting the millions of bottles produced is detrimental to the environment. Continued use of plastic bottles could exponentially hurt the planet.
Recycling refers to the process of changing waste stuff into new products, with a focus on preventing waste into potentially useful materials, reducing energy usage, reducing water and air pollution, lower emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as reducing the use of unexploited raw materials. Recycling is a main component of modern waste management, and also a 3rd component of the recycle, reuse, and reduce waste hierarchy. In addition, there are various ISO standards that relate to recycling, including ISO 15270:2008 that regards to the plastic waste, as well as ISO 14001:2004 that regards to the environment management control through recycling practices (Morgan 109). Recycling materials include water, glass, metal, paper, textiles, electronics, as well as plastics. Although it is similar in effect, the reuse or composting of biodegradable waste, like the garden and food wastes, is also considered as recycling. The materials used for recycling are either collected from the curbside or brought to collection centers, on which they are subsequently sorted, refined, and reprocessed into useful materials aimed for manufacturing.
Most importantly, it saves lives. We should all learn the importance of recycling. For example, some sea lions won?t get stuck in plastics if we recycle. We would also breathe better air. We can recycle and aluminum can and put it back on the shelf for something useful. If we just leave it in the landfill, it?ll decompose and it?ll be of no use. It?ll also reduce pollution or else it?ll make a new one.
Recycling generally means the process separating, collecting and remanufacturing or converting used or old products into new products. Through recycling, we are extending the life and usefulness of something that has already served its init...
The exorbitant amount of waste humans all around the world are producing each and every day is astonishing. In major developed cities, trash is easily forgotten about due to the lack of an impact it plays on peoples' lives after it is disposed of (Lohuizen 2017). Furthermore, the problem is expected to grow; as nations begin to develop, trash will shortly follow. Packaging for items uniquely becomes more intricate as a nation develops, and as a result plays a critical role in how much total garbage actually ends up in a landfill. A culprit to the landfill problem is plastics, due to the extraordinary amount of time it takes for them to degrade.
Recycling is the processing of used waste materials into brand new, useful products. Not only does recycling provide various health benefits for humans, it also benefits for the environment. The EPA says the rates for recovering solid municipal waste increased from 1960 of around 5.6 percent to almost 25 percent more with an addition 8.5 percent in 2007 from composting. This percentage change has led to a decrease in content found in our landfills which benefits animals, humans, and even the environment as a whole. If people do not keep on recycling, our natural resources will keep on diminishing which we do not want to happen. If more people do not recycle, climate change will keep going up which leads to changes in our water temperature as well. Higher water temperature changes lead to less amounts of dissolved oxygen in ponds, lakes, oceans, and streams which will lead to aquatic wildlife to perish. By recycling, the chance of the changes happen will be very slim (Rogers,
from different resins. In order to recycle plastics, the different types must be kept separate.
Recycling is such a fantastic way for us to reuse the waste we once throw. Yet, not everything is easy to be done in this world. There many difficulties that face recycling process economically and socially. Usually In order to recycle, waste paper needs to be sorted and treated from any Impurities. Which means that companies will loss finance because there must be someone or something that could sort or treat these papers. Another problem is that to start recycling, companies needs a lot of good recyclable supply to pick it up; after all, they need good economic benefits (Problems with Recycling, 2014). According to the Waste and Resources Action Program, there are some barriers p...
In the 1870’s, plastic was discovered in the United States when John Wesley Hyatt was trying to create a different material to make billiard balls (Manrich, 3). Little did he know it would majorly evolve into material we use everyday. However, plastics are now taking over our landfills. The average American throws away one-hundred and eighty-five pounds of plastic a year (Popescu, 121). The answer to decrease this statistic is easy: recycling. I believe that recycling will help eliminate littering and the growth of landfills, while also creating jobs for the unemployed. Not only does recycling plastic help eliminate littering, but also reuses the plastic so there is not a production of additional unneeded plastics. The
Therefore, many countries in the developed world have adopted recycling policies for disposal Of waste. The benefits of the recycling process include the following. Maintaining the cleanliness of the environment in the first place from the damage of burying and burning the waste or leaving it exposed Reduce the pollution of sea, ocean and river waters from dumping solid waste, threaten marine life, and reduce groundwater pollution from the waste of