Common recyclables found in every home or office
It is more than a civic duty to recycle and yet most people find it easier to have their waste product carted off to their local landfill. Yet, recycling is not difficult, it takes only a phone call to arrange for a skip to be delivered to a location of your choice. If each household or office made use of a private skip just once a year to take away their waste product, the effect on the environment would be enormous.
What can be recycled?
Perhaps you are building a new house, or remodelling your old one? Then having a skip at the ready is essential. Even if you are re-doing your garden. Concrete and such things as rocks, bricks and even dirt can be taken away for crushing. Concrete, once the contaminants have been removed, ends up as either gravel or a dry aggregate. This eliminates rocks having to be crushed for the same purpose.
Biodegradable waste such as kitchen or garden waste when recycled becomes an ideal compost.
Glass and plastic are of course the most well known products for recycling. Glass is sorted into colour categories, the contaminants removed and it is then crushed and added to a raw mixture in the melting furnace ready for blowing or molding into new products. Glass can even be recycled for use in the construction industry.
Plastic poses its own unique challenges in the recycling process though. Each type of plastic carries a resin identification code and it must be sorted according to that code which can be expensive. Plastic doesn’t make for easy recycling, but the alternative is the landfill which offers its own nightmares.
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