What does recycling mean to you? For us, recycling is a word of endless opportunities to innovate, grow and advance the industry of recycling. We will always be looking for ways to redefine recycling.
Soda Tab Recycling: Any truth to the myth?
Keep the tabs on your cans! It’s a myth that you can make a substantial amount of money from collecting soda tabs. Always check with a charity to see if they accept them for donation before collecting them. Check out this article that further explains.
The Value of Scrap Metal
What exactly is scrap metal? Scrap metal is bits and pieces of metal that are not in use or discarded and then collected. Scrap metal includes ferrous material (think Iron & Steel) and non-ferrous (think Aluminum, Copper, Brass). These materials can be found from construction sites and architectural structures. They can also be found by looking around your home. Broken appliances, old soda cans and even your car can be recycled at a Scrap Metal Recycling facility, like SA Recycling. Not only will you be helping the environment by recycling, you will receive money for your well-doing.
Recycling your metal reduces the need to mine the earth for its natural resources. Recycled scrap metal can be used for various purposes, including construction and automobile manufacturing. Scrap metal is good for the environment as well as the economy.
To read more about the value of scrap metal, click here.
Color of Glass Significance
Glass is a renewable resource that can be recycled endlessly without losing it’s quality. There are many benefits to using glass to store our food and drink, it’s tamper resistant, it does not affect taste and it’s rigid which is important for transportation. So it is important to recycle your glass, but, while sifting through your glass recyclables, you may ask “Why do I have to separate by color?” The task of separating your brown beer bottles from your clear jam jars may seem tedious, but there is a logical explanation of why we do it.
The color of the glass depends on what type of food or drink is going into the glass. If the substance is not affected by light, it will go into a clear glass container. This is true for many substances like sauces, water and alcohol. However, other substances, like beer, would be ruined by light, so it goes into a brown glass container for protection.
The glass is colored during the manufacturing process by adding oxides colorants. Since color is so significant during the manufacturing process, color is also significant during the recycling process.
For more information on the color significance of glass, click here.
Electronic Waste Recycling- Where and How?
Electronic waste contains toxic materials yet profitable materials. We all have non working cell phones, computers and T.V.’s but it not always easy to know what to do with it. You can visit http://www.ecyclingcentral.com/ to find out where to take these items.
Electronic recycling is a great way to do your part in making the environment a better place.
New Years Resolution to be Green
New Year’s resolutions are meant to be kept and mine this year is to be environmentally friendly. There are many ways to go green and I am going to start with recycling. When I look around my home I see so many things to recycle. Not only are these things easy to recycle but I can be paid money to recycle it.
I can recycle the empty soda cans in my trash, the broken refrigerator in my garage, some broken metal shelving, junk bicycles, junk BBQ and many other items laying around my home.
My goal is to load up a truck with these items and take them to my nearest recycling facility. Not only will this minimize the clutter in my home but I will be paid money for this at the recycling facility. I know these items will be handled in the most environmentally friendly way. I see nothing but positives to this new year’s resolution.
So if you are like me and you want to join in on making your home green in 2011, you can visit www.gotscrap.com to see where the nearest recycling center is.
For more tips on becoming green, I read www.Earth911.com.
Recycling Cans Does More Then Help Our Environment
While there are many Environmental benefits of aluminum can recycling like;
- Recycling aluminum cans saves precious natural resources, energy, time and money – all for a good cause – helping out the earth, as well as the economy and local communities.
- Aluminum cans are unique in that in 60 days a can is recycled, turned into a new can & back on store shelves.
- Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again.
- In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil – America’s entire gas consumption for one day.
There are also economic benefits as well, such as;
Sure, recycling your cans is very helpful to our environment but why not recycle them for the financial benefit you can have or share with a charity or organization.
What do you do with your cans?
Source-http://earth911.com/news/2007/04/02/benefits-of-aluminum-can-recycling/
Why are people not recycling?
Earth 911 does an interview with 5 individuals on why they do not recycle.
http://earth911.com/news/2010/10/25/why-people-dont-recycle/
People of all age ranges were interviewed and every non-recycler has their reasons for not recycling but the constant seems to be the lack of convenience.
What is stopping you from recycling?
Facts from the Bureau of International Recycling
