Recycling%20in%20Germany

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Recycling in Germany
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• 20 years ago Germany invented a special system in
  order to recycle raw materials and prevent
  environmental pollution

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• In the world the garbage is nowhere separated as
  well as in Germany. Today several households have
  four tonnes - yellow for packaging, grey for the
  rest garbage, brown for biowaste and a blue one
  for waste paper

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The Recyclinghof

• Every other garbage you want to get rid of can be
  brought to a certain place called Recyclinghof

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Bottle deposit

• You pay a special deposit
• ( 8-25cents per bottle)
• whenever you buy drinks in bottles or cans
• You get the money back if you bring the bottles
  and cans back to the shop

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There are containers for any kind of glass or
clothes in central places of the cities
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What happens with the collected materials?

• 75 of the new glass bottles
• are made out of recycled glass
• Less than half of the energy and resources
• are needed to produce paper out
  of waste paper
• Old clothes are used for
• paper production or cleaning cloths

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Example Recycling of collected plastic bottles
and packagings
Foils, beverage cases, window boxes, pipes
cutting and cleaning
forming new products
drying and melting
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• Near our school there is a Garbage incineration
  plant
• The waste that is burned in this plant produces
  electricity

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FACTS

• The separate collection of packaging material in
  Germany has begun 20 years ago
• Today nearly 80 percent of
• all packaging gets recycled
• 250 000 people work and
• earn money in the
• recycling market

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That was our presentation about Recycling in
GermanyThank you for listening -)