So you decide you’ll invest in recycling and reclamation. It’s a big decision. But before planning the economic investment side, you should take a look at the basics. What do we really know about waste? And about now much we can re-use, and quite simply, about the ways in which we can re-use waste and process it to come up with new resources?
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Like… did you know that plastic is by far the most difficult of materials to get rid of? It takes as long as a thousand years. A tin or a can, left to nature’s devices, will take 20 to 100 years.
Because they contain many materials which are hard to separate, light bulbs shouldn’t be disposed of along with glass waste.
Recycling 70 kg of paper saves the life of one tree.
An ecological shopping bag can be made of tomato skins.
Hazardous municipal waste includes laser printers, which contain toxic and/or hazardous materials.
Objects like floppy disks, video cassettes and biro pens can’t be recycled because they’re made up of a variety of materials or of hard plastic which can’t be softened.
Do you know what special waste is?
All these questions and answers and many other topics are dealt with in the simple, fun Eco-Quiz on recycling which we discovered on-line (click and see for yourself!): find out how much you really know about recycling, reclamation, disposal and related topics!
