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Recycling Glass Container

Recycling Glass Bottles Container:

Glass containers were recycled at a rate of 38 percent in 1996. There are more than 500,000 tons of glass refillable containers in use. Nearly 650,000 tons of recovered glass was used in non-container applications such as glasphalt, road filler and fiberglass. Glass containers save 9 gallons of fuel (oil) for every ton of recycled glass. Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

Some useful tips :

•  You always make sure that the glass you collect can be recycled and prepare it properly.
•  Remove lids and metal bottle collars.
•  Rinse containers to remove traces of food and beverages.
•  Dirty containers may produce odors and will attract insects and rodents.
•  Paper labels may be left on containers.
•  To protect yourself and workers at recycling centers, take care not to break glass containers you collect.

Glass Bottles

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Use of Cardboard

Cardboard Uses:

1. When the cardboard box is recycled the paper is produced on it. And every one knows how much paper is used in or routine life.
2. A cardboard box can be used as printing to promote its contents and this can be achieved with flexographic, lithographic or screen printing techniques.

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Advantage of Recycling:Glass

Advantages of glass recycling

1. At the time of recycling glass. It uses less energy and creates less pollution.
2. Glass can be recycled to make new glass.
3. 80 percent of the recycled glass is used to produce new glass containers.
4. Recycled glass needs less heat to process into new glass

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How We Recycled:Cardboard

Cardboard Recycling Process

Cardboard is used mainly for packing and storage, and only cardboard is one who recycled in any type or any form like cereal boxes, computer boxes, and soap boxes. It’s all recyclable. If you really want to help the environment, avoid using a dumpster for cardboard collection. Reuse it.

The process of recycling is very simple it turns used cardboard and paper into a pulp that is transformed into new paper items. Large cardboard boxes can be turned into any type of furniture from a coffee table or dining table to a TV stand or desk. Cardboard is an easy product to reuse as well.

Daljit Nagra

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Cardboard Packaging

Cardboard packaging

Cardboard packaging is one of the most common types of product packaging and also used for milk and groceries which we used in our daily routine life. It can be better for our environment.

Cardboard packaging is a natural product which is biodegradable and recyclable. Paper is the only packaging material which is mainly manufactured from the renewable sources .

Daljit Nagra

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Cardboard:Benefits

Benefits of Cardboard Recycling

1. It reduces the pollution created by paper making factories.
2. Cardboard recycling saved the trees every year.
3. After recycling the cardboard we create new products and decrease the percentage of pollution which is great achievement. At lest we do some great job for our environment.
4. Recycling is the major step who saves our environment.

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Paper Recycling:Process

Process of Paper Recycling

Recycling waste paper and paper products is one of the simplest ways of reducing pressure on the planet. While there are differences depending on the specific type of paper being recycled, recycling processes include the following steps:

1.Pulping: Adding water and applying mechanical action to separate fibers from each other.
2.Screening: Using screens, with either slots or holes, to remove contaminants that are larger than pulp fibers.
3.Washing: Small particles are removed by passing water through the pulp.
4.Bleaching: If white paper is desired, bleaching of wood pulp. Bleaching of wood pulp is the chemical processing carried out on various types of wood pulp to decrease the color of the pulp uses peroxide
5.Dissolved air flotation: Process water is cleaned for reuse.
6.Waste disposal: The unusable material left over, mainly ink, plastics, filler and short fibers, is called sludge. The sludge is buried in a landfill, burned to create energy at the paper mill or used as a fertilizer by local farmers.

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