Sunday, August 21, 2011
Environmental Importance!!!
- Harmful chemicals and greenhouse gasses are released from rubbish in landfill sites. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by the waste.
- Habitat destruction and global warming are some of the affects caused by deforestation. Recycling reduces the need for raw materials so that the rainforests can be preserved.
- Huge amounts of energy are used when making products from raw materials. Recycling requires less energy and therefore helps to preserve natural resources.
The importance of recycling!!!
Plastic
- 275,000 tones of plastic are used each year in the UK, that’s about 15 million bottles per day.
- Most families throw away about 40kg of plastic per year, which could otherwise be recycled.
- The use of plastic in Western Europe is growing about 4% each year.
- Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose.
Paper
- Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.
- 12.5 million tones of paper and cardboard are used annually in the UK.
- The average person in the UK gets through 38kg of newspapers per year.
- It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.
Glass
- Each UK family uses an average of 500 glass bottles and jars annually.
- The largest glass furnace produces over 1 million glass bottles and jars per day.
- Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.
- Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose.
Aluminium
- 24 million tones of aluminium is produced annually, 51,000 tones of which ends up as packaging in the UK.
- If all cans in the UK were recycled, we would need 14 million fewer dustbins.
- £36,000,000 worth of aluminium is thrown away each year.
- Aluminium cans can be recycled and ready to use in just 6 weeks.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Pure milk!!!
La Cooperativa Dos Pinos, one of Costa Rica’s biggest dairy producers, sells their milk in the popular tetra brik container. The packaging, which is a compound of plastic, aluminum, and cardboard, allows for a very long shelf life, but comes at the price of environmentally unfriendly packaging. Showing their care and concern for the world around them, Dos Piños recently announced that they are building a facility to process 100 tons of tetra brik packaging per month, separating its contents into cardboard and a plastic-aluminum compound. The compound will be used as primary material for many products, including blackboards, chairs, tables, and school desks.
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