Recycling for a Better Future

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Recycling for a Better Future

• Rachel Cleaver
• Penn State University
• rmc5050_at_psu.edu

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RECYCLING!!
2. REUSE
3. RECYCLE
1. REDUCE
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Recycling!!

• Popular during Revolutionary War
• Melting scrap metal for ammo
• Became law July 1988
• Act 101 The Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling,
  and Waste Reduction Act.
• Awareness has rapidly increased since
  the early 1970s.

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Objectives

• Know what you can recycle.
• See the recycling process.
• Look how recycling is making a difference.
• See Pennsylvania statistics.

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What can you recycle?

• Plastic
• Glass
• Aluminum
• Newspaper
• Cardboard
• Mixed office paper

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The Recycling Process
Example GLASS

• Collected from home
• Transported to plant
• Cut into small pieces
• Separate out lids, labels, metals, etc.
• Melted down and remolded.

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Learn from example

• Works in cooperation with Centre County Solid
  Waste Authority.
• 2005- Penn State alone saved 4,868 tons of
  recyclable material from going into landfills.
• Penn State recycled 794 tons of mixed office
  paper in 2005. This recycling process saved
  3,176,000 kwh.

http//www.opp.psu.edu/environment/recycle/backgro
und.cfm
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-Special Projects-
Organic Materials Processing (or Compost)
Secret Recipe

• Food waste
• Plant material
• Sodder
• Cow manure

http//www.opp.psu.edu/environment/recycle/backgro
und.cfm
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Impacts on Pennsylvania

• Employs 81,000 people alone
• Saved almost 98 trillion British thermal units
  (BTUs) of energy in 2005
• Input 1.8 Billion dollars in indirect benefits
  to the economy.

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RECYCLE!!!!
Dont let the garbage pile up!!!
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Conclusion
Take a look at this recycling video that sums up
the process and effects of recycling!!