What is RECYCLING?
 Recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new products
 Recycling prevents useful material resources from being wasted,
reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage,
and hence greenhouse gas emissions, compared to virgin production.
What materials can be
recycled?
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Glass
Paper
Aluminum
Asphalt
Iron
Textiles
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Recycling Techniques
There are many different ways that materials can be recycled. The technique that is used to create the new
materials from the old depends on what the material is. Here is a list of different techniques:
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Concrete Recycling
Battery Recycling
Biodegradable Waste Recycling (Composting/Anaerobic Digestion)
Electronic Waste Recycling
Printer & Ink Cartridges
Glass
Paper
Ferrous Materials
Non-Ferrous Materials
Plastic
Shipbreaking
Textile Recycling
Fun Recycling Facts
 More than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133
square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize
it.
 One-third of the water used in most homes is flushed down the toilet.
 You can recycle newspaper and white paper, glass bottles and jars, aluminum
cans, steel cans and/or plastic containers with a 1 or 2 on the bottom.
 An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now.
 Your ID card will last approximately 450-650 years.
Reduce…
Reuse…
Recycle…
Recycling Facts
 The energy saved from recycling one aluminum can will operate a computer
for three hours
 Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours-or
the equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline
 We use 80,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year
 If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each
year
 Recycling a stack of newspapers just 3 feet high can save one tree
 We throw away enough office paper annually to build a wall twelve feet high
stretching from Los Angeles to New York City
 Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown
away.
 The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will operate a 100-watt light
bulb for 4 hours
 Every month we throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant
skyscraper
 Glass can be recycled an infinite amount of times
 Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person
 Did you know that the state of Maryland generated enough municipal solid
waste in 2000 to build a wall 3’ wide x 6’ high and 3,839 miles long? That is
long enough to go from Baltimore to Miami over 3.5 times.
 Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to
fill Cole Fieldhouse from top to bottom twice a day