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Enjoy a wide range of fun recycling facts for kids.

Saturday 3 December 2011

LEarn more about what kinds of objects can be recycled, how we recycle them into new products, why we recycle them and much more.....

• Recycling is the process of turning used waste and materials into new products. This prevents potentially useful materials from being wasted as well as reducing energy use and pollution.
  
• Recycling is part of the waste disposal hierarchy - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
  
• A wide variety of different materials can be recycled, including paper, plastic, glass, metal, textiles and electronic equipment.
  
• The idea of recycling isn't something new, historical evidence shows that humans have been recycling various materials for thousands of years.
  
• Powerful magnets are used to sort through different types of metals.
  
• Recycled paper can be made from three different types of paper; mill broke (paper scrap and trimmings), pre-consumer waste (paper that was discarded before consumer use), and post-consumer waste (paper discarded after consumer use, such as old newspapers).
  
• Recycling plastic can be more difficult than other materials and plastics are not typically recycled into the same type of plastic.
  
• Different types of plastics are labeled by numbers (plastic identification code), for example polyethylene (PET) is number 1 and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is number 3.
  
• Recycling old aluminum uses only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminum.
  
• Aluminum can be recycled from cans, bicycles, computers, cookware, wires, cars, planes and other sources.
  
• Glass recycling is often separated into colors because glass keeps its color after recycling.
  
• For every ton of recycled glass turned into new products, 315 kilograms of extra carbon dioxide that would have been released during the creation of new glass are saved.