Recycling

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Recycling

• By Leah Hinshaw
• Marianne Cruzat
• and Kaylee Llewellyn

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Recycling

• Recycling is the act of processing used or
  abandoned materials for use in creating new
  products.
• Recycling is commonly mispercieved.
• There are a number of benefits, as well as
  drawbacks.
• Is recycling really worth the hassle?

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Pros and Cons of Recycling

• Cons
• Planning
• Costly
• Encouragement
• Time Consuming
• Pollution by factories

• Pros
•  "Green"
• Saves money
•  Will keep environment healthy
•  Can reuse many of the materials again
• Feel great by knowing you are helping the
  environment

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Pictures
The pictures above are results of not recycling
and putting trash in landfills.
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Facts and General Statistics

• A trash truck holds approximately 37 cubic yards
  of trash.
• An average family garbage can is about 0.27 yards
  by 0.416 yards by 0.75 yards. This is 0.087 cubic
  yards.
• The average person produces about ¼ of a trash
  can worth of trash a week. This means that each
  person must produce about 0.02175 cubic yards of
  trash per week. 
• 426 trash cans fit into one trash truck. 
• 275 trash trucks would be needed to dump all of
  the trash produced by Winston-Salem residents.
• Winston-Salem produes 10,132.1 cubic yards of
  trash per week
• The city is paying around 27,500 per week in
  landfill costs

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Savings of a Family

• Our family (4 people) generate about 21 lbs of
  garbage in an average week and around 3 pounds
  per day. We recycle around 1/2 of the garbage we
  produce and usually have more recycling than we
  do garbage. That would be around 10 pounds of
  recyclable material in a week.Glass/plastic
  .75 lbs Paper/metal 1.25 lbs Miscellaneous
  1 lb (per day)
•  The volume of garbage produced in a week
  is 0.173 cubic yards of garbage uncompressed.
  About ½ of the garbage is recyclable material and
  we dont compress our garbage. The volume of
  recyclable material is around 0.087 cubic feet of
  material per week.Our trash can is 10 x 15 x 27
  inches and there is one for trash, one for
  recycling, each one fills once a week.
• The city would save 9,500 a week by recycling if
  1/3 of the materials being put in a landfill are
  recyclable material. Imagine what it would be if
  we recycled more!

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Value of Recyclable Materials

• Metal on average is worth around 0.75 per pound
• Plastic/Glass is worth around 0.10 per pound
• Paper is worth 20.00 per ton
• If recycling is not separated, it will cost the
  city an additional 0.03 per pound to have it
  separated
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• An average family produces 10 pounds of
  recyclable material in one week
• 5.25 lbs. in glass/plastic
• 8.75 lbs. in metal
• 0.5 lbs. in paper

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Graphs- Solid Waste Management in Forsyth County
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Comparison Graph
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Statistics on Recycling Paper

• Every recycled ton of paper saves 17 trees, 275
  pounds of sulfur, 350 pounds of limestone, 9,000
  pounds of steam, 60,000 gallons of water, 225
  kilowatt hours, and 3.3 cubic yards of landfill
  space.

Recycling 14 trees worth of paper reduces air
pollutants by 165,142 tons.
The energy used to recycle paper is close to 70
less than when paper is prepared using virgin
wood and other raw material.
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Statistics on Recycled Plastic

• Almost every hour, nearly 250,000 plastic bottles
  are dumped. It is not surprising that plastic
  bottles constitute close to 50 of recyclable
  waste in the dumps.

• The average time taken by plastic bottles to
  decompose in a landfill is close to 700 years.

Used plastic dumped into the sea kills and
destroys sea life at an estimated 1,000,000 sea
creatures per year!
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Statistics on Metal
Aluminum is one of the easiest and fastest
materials to recycle. Aluminum cans can be
recycled and reused within 60 days.

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• Four pounds of bauxite can be saved with every
  pound of aluminum recycled.   

Every day, about 133 square miles of aluminum is
used to wrap hershey kisses.
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Statistics on Electronics and Technology

• Americans own approximately 24 electronic
  products per household.

• A typical computer monitor with a cathode ray
  tube display contains 2-4 kilograms of lead, as
  well as phosphor, barium, and hexavalent chromium.

Of the 2.25 million tons of TVs, cell phones and
computer products,18 (414,000 tons) are
collected for recycling and 82 (1.84 million
tons) was disposed of, primarily in landfills.
About 25 million TVs are taken out of service
yearly.
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Ways to Cut down E-Waste (Waste from Electronics)

• Many cell phone manufacturers and service
  providers will take back used phones for reuse or
  recycling.
• When buying an electronic, choose a product that
  has all the features you will need for the future
• Purchase used or refurbished electronics
• Before buying replacement equipment, check on
  what you need to replace and make the best choice
• Before throwing electronics away, check if anyone
  might need the parts from it
• Donate the electronic to local schools,
  organizations, etc..They are always willing to
  take things in
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TRASH

• Technology
• Return
• Advertise
• Separate
• Humans 

"You must be the change you wish to see in the
world." Mahatma Gandhi
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Technology

• Old MP3 players, Televisions, Cell phones,
  Computers, Cars and more
• Dismembered and Seperated
• Reuse or properly dispose of
• Less trash
• Saves money for city as well as companies

I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see
people throwing away things wecould use.--
Mother Teresa
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Return

• Encourage using incentive
• 0.05 per can or bottle
• 5 per mp3/cell phone
• 10 per computer
• 100 per car
• New Technology Tax

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Advertise

• Start many programs that increase awareness
• Start an advertisement company that will explain
  the benefits and simplicity of recycling
• Be sure to include children and teens by going to
  schools
• Can start "competitions" within the school.
  Whatever class has the most recyled material
  wins.
•  Hold seminars or conventions that emphasize on
  the simplicity of recycling and all the benefits
  that will come out of it.

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Separate

• Return program will encourage separation
• Positive attitude
• Incentive for recycling
• Fine for not recycling
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• Information about how material is recycled on
  next slides

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Metals and Paper  

• Paper is usually seperated by passing it over a
  large mesh screen so that smaller items fall
  through the large holes.
• Steel is seperated using electro-magnets.
• Other metals are seperated using Eddy Currents.
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Electronics and Plastics

• Electronics are taken apart and most of the
  reusable parts are taken by hand and seperated by
  different bins. They are then smashed and put on
  a conveyor belt where a magnet will take the
  magnetic parts and the rest go to the smasher and
  turns into a big bube.
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• Pieces of plastic are taken apart, charged with
  static electricity, and droped through an
  electric field, resulting in a natural separation
  of the plastic types based on pieces being
  attracted toward the electrode of the opposite
  polarity. they are then melted at high
  temperatures and made into new plastic after
  undergoing a "screening process".

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Humans

• Spread word of how humans can help
• Clean-up locally
• Donate to local clean up crews and/or recycling
  and trash companies
• Donate to recycling organizations and programs
  promoting recycling
• Involve all ages

"We should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not
wait." Al Gore
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Conclusion

• Citizens have complained about the "hassle" of
  recycling.
• Recycling is more than worth the "hassle".
• "A society is defined not only by what is
  creates, but by what is refuses to destroy."
  -John Sawhill
• Please Consider our Proposal
• Thank you for listening to our presentation.

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