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Recycling
Recycling involves processing used materials like glass, paper, metal, plastic, and textiles into new products in order to reduce waste, decrease consumption of raw materials, lower energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions, and cut down on air and water pollution. Paper recycling recovers waste paper to make new paper products from mill broke, pre-consumer waste, or post-consumer waste. Metal recycling reuses old metal like aluminum and steel to manufacture new items using 95% less energy than creating products from raw materials. Plastic recycling recovers scrap or waste plastics and transforms them, sometimes completely changing their form, into useful products like plastic chairs made from recycled soft drink bottles.
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- 2. What is Recycling?Recyclinginvolves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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- 4. PaperPaper recycling isthe process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feed stocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste.
- 5. MetalMetal recycling isthe process of reusing old metal material, mainly aluminum and steel, to make new products. Recycling old metal products uses 95% less energy than manufacturing it from new materials.
- 6. Plastic Plastic recycling isthe process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles then casting them as plastic chairs and tables.
- 7. EnglishTeacher: Susana NunesWorkdone by: Marina Matins 9ºCEF no.4