Recycle

Consider the growing implications of Ozone Depletion and Global Warming and their affect on Planet Earth. What action can resolve this. As someone once said, 'Rome was not built in a day'. It is good advice to take heed of. Consider that a problem of such magnitude will take a long time to repair! It may even take longer than our lifetime to rectify. There are no simple solutions or quick fixes to this problem. It sounds like a bleak future awaits us all. We need to stay strong and hopeful, that there is still time ahead of us to do something about it. So our Children can grow up safe in an unpolluted world. It is the most important things that matter the most, but usually are the hardest to achieve. Although we haven't all the answers yet. It doesn't mean we won't get there in the future!

To begin with, let us think smaller. After all large oak trees grow from small acorns to begin with. One way we can all help, which doesn't require you to be a politician, to be rich or to be a Scientist or a scholar is to 'Recycle'. This is an excellent way of helping the environment around us.

What is Recycling?

In the past one hundred percent of our rubbish would end up on a landfill site and have to be either buried for a very long time or burnt, which had the potential to pollute the air or the soil of our Planet. By recycling we are reusing part of that waste to create new products. These can be recycled into the same type of product or other products from its material and can also be used to create energy or to help rebuild things, such as our road surfaces. Presently our Council supplies us with different coloured wheelie-bins or crates for the collection of our household or garden waste. Recently you may have seen the adverts on the Television or been asked to collect materials for recycling through your schools or work place. As the information tells us practically anything can be recycled in today's world. Some examples are:-

* Old newspapers and magazines.
* Glass and plastic bottles.
* Tin cans.
* Compact Discs along with their jewel cases.
* Cardboard.
* Garden Waste.
* Mobile phones.
* Computers and Monitors.



Where do you go to Recycle?

I mentioned previously that a large amount of our rubbish is collected by the Council, but for those items not collected, it is best to contact your Local Council or Authority for information on the whereabouts of collection areas within your town or city or to visit the internet. Below I have included links to various web sites, which cater for the recycling of waste. Each gives extensive details into how recycling is done and some you will find have postcode or area searches, to advise you of where you can find the collection points near to where you live.



Links to Recycle Websites

United Kingdom Websites

Bag 2 School - http://www.bag2school.com/about.php

environmental Business Products - http://www.inkagain.co.uk/index.shtml

Planet Ark UK - http://www.planetark.com/index_uk.cfm

Recoup - http://www.recoup.org/business/default.asp

Recycle-IT! - http://www.recycle-it.ltd.uk/

Recycle-more.co.uk - http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/

Recyclenow - http://www.recyclenow.com/

Recyclezone - http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/home.aspx

Sita UK - http://www.sita.co.uk/what-we-do/recycling

The Recycling Consortium - http://www.recyclingconsortium.org.uk/index.htm

Waste Online - http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/index.aspx

Wasteconnect - http://www.wastepoint.co.uk/default.asp

Waste Watch - http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/

United States Of America and Canada Websites

FREE GEEK - http://www.freegeek.org/mission.php

Earth 911 - http://www.earth911.org/master.asp

Metro - http://www.metro-region.org/

Ohio Department Of Natural Resources. Reycle Ohio - http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/recycling/default.htm

Recyclecity - http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/

RecyclePlus - http://www.recycleplus.com/index.shtml

Australia Website

Planet Ark Australia - http://www.planetark.com/

Other ways to Recycle

Some work places also have containers for recycling. At my place of work there are different coloured bins for the recycling of tin cans, paper and food waste. The colour of the bins denotes which items can be thrown into which bin. This allows items to be recycled where otherwise they would have ended up on a landfill site to pollute the Earth. We also have a collection point for our empty printer toner cartridges. Instead of these been thrown in the bin, they are returned to an organization which refills the cartridges to allow us to reuse them. Again this cuts down on potential waste.

There are other ways of reducing waste. Sometimes when your printing out documents you may make the odd mistakes. Instead of throwing the paper away into the bin, you could use the other side first as scrap paper, for jointing ideas down or doing simple calculations. Also when using an internal memo system, instead of printing out a hardcopy of all your memos and having to file them somewhere on your desk to gather dust. Why not create folders on your memo system or on the hard disk of your computer. These could then be stored under folder names such as, 'Business', 'Personal', 'Forms', 'Charity Events' or 'Work Procedures', until such a time when you need to access the information.

I have also found in whilst doing my work that certain documents print off with blank pages in between due to the format of the document. People usually throw these pages away thinking it is a waste, but if you collect these together and leave the pages to cool down in a pile. Once cool you can reuse them in the printer. Again cutting down on wastage. There any many other ways to reduce waste or reuse items. Think about it and contact me if you have any suggestions or ideas, which you have used before either at school or at work. The potential for recycling is basically up to your imagination. So why not have a go and see what you can do to help the environment.