1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Firstly‚ recycling is not a new concept to us‚ people has been doing it for thousands of years. Recycling is different from ‘re-use’ in the sense that re-use means using old products repeatedly. Recycling is the process of producing a new product from a recyclable material. Undeniably‚ recycling has always been a matter of helping the environment and for economic reasons. According to http://www.nural.com.my‚ in Malaysia‚ we produce 19‚000 tons
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A Wasteful Society: Why Recycling Should Be Mandatory Recycling is defined as “the process of making or manufacturing new products from a product that has originally served its purpose”. This simply means reusing old things and making them in to new ones. It is a process that has been done for centuries‚ longer than most would believe. Recycling goes back as far as historic times‚ 400BC and earlier than that. Though it was not uncommon for homes to recycle and reuse items it didn’t really become
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Recycling vs. Our Throw Away Culture Although it may seem like recycling is something new‚ in reality‚ forms of recycling have been used for many years. In the early 1900’s‚ waste paper and rags were often used to make paper when wood pulp was scarce and too expensive (Black). The economic depression also made recycling an important way for people to survive‚ as they couldn’t afford to buy new things (Grabianowski). People then began recycling scrap metal‚ nylon‚ rubber and other materials
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Tyre Recycling in the UK: Present and Future Trends End-of-life vehicles (ELV’s) are motor vehicles that are defined as waste by the Waste Directive. All of the components are classed as waste as well‚ including the tyres‚ which represent approximately 3.5% of the weight of an ELV. Considering 8 million vehicles are disposed of and 18 million part-worn tyres are disposed of‚ a total of 50 million tyres need to be dealt with each year. This report will discuss the current methods of recycling
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Introduction 1.1 Background Macmillan English Dictionary defines recycling as “the process of treating waste materials such as newspaper and bottles so that they can be used again”. Beside paper and bottles there have lots of recyclable items such as aluminum cans‚ scrap metals‚ plastic and printer cartridges. Recycling saves energy and reduces pollution and would help slow down global climate change. The history of recycling is started nearly 4000 years ago‚ there was a recovery and reuse system
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extent that recycling is the answer to the problems of waste. Firstly‚ recycling has helped many countries to save space in limited landfills. The number of landfills is decreasing‚ while the cost to send waste to them is on the rise. Most states in America have less than twenty years of landfill capacity‚ and it is difficult to set up another new landfill sites in densely populated areas. Indeed‚ recycling is largely responsible for averting the landfill crisis. In America‚ recycling paper has
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Musa Acuminata: Recycling Banana Peelings into Papers Cheska Mateo Garchelle Bagtas Julia Pascua Kristine Aira Boriongan Laine Medianesta May Ann Carpio Jerico Tangos National High School June 2013 Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study Banana is a seasonal fruit. All year round people around the country can eat this fruit anytime they wanted and so‚was my household and my neighbors. Now‚ banana peelings scatter along the street and trash bags are
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Garbage Reduction Garbage Reduction Humans have always had an impact on their surroundings. Garbage is one of our biggest effects on nature. Unlike other animals‚ humans create too much waste for nature to keep up. American’s create almost 210 million tons of waste a year. Almost 42 percent of that garbage is in paper wastes. With the continually rising of the earth’s population‚ the situation is going to get harder and harder to slow‚ or fix. With garbage comes pollution. In our burning of
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Land fill site A landfill site is an area of land that is used to dump rubbish‚ either directly on the ground (land rising) or filling an unwanted hole in the ground (landfilling). We need landfill sites to dispose of rubbish that cannot be reused or recycled. New technologies are being developed to reduce the amount of rubbish that is sent to landfill each year; Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF) and composting. There are many advantages and disadvantages in a landfill. Some of the advantages
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“Housekeeping operations are turning eco-friendly.” Discuss. According to Kasavana‚ 2008 said that there have many specific great efforts in the hospitality industry which have provided the basis for some firms or company gaining a competitive advantage through enhanced imaging based on conservation and sustainability initiatives over the past several years. Therefore‚ nowadays‚ some views from every aspect of the hospitality industry are being impacted by this movement or development. It can evidence
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