Recycle

=__**Safe displosal of Waste :** __ = __**Creating awareness through display board** __ =Sensitizing students to reduce, reuse and try to recycle waste material in our surroundings. = Bal Bharati Public School,Brij Vihar,Gzb,I India


 * Earth Day was celebrated on 22nd April. **

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 * Need to recycle water- a fast depleting natural resource was highlighted. **

**Recycling as the need of the hour in India and all over the world was stressed upon using informative and interactive websites such as- [|www.lickglobalwarming.org]** **[|www.ecan.govt.nz.org]**
 * **[|www.cleansweepusa.org]**


 * Finding out maximum number of ways to reuse plastic bottles-: **


 * ** __﻿__**__Litter Detectives__-:**



**Students did a survey and found out the amount and types of litter mostly found on the school campus.**


 * Recycling waste to make 'Best out of Waste' **




 * Creating posters using waste products with a slogan about recycling. **



BAL BHARATI PUBLIC, NOIDA, INDIA


 * PROJECT ON RECYCLING**

Recycling is a process - a series of activities, if you will, that includes: the collection and sorting of waste materials, the processing of these materials to produce brand new products, and the purchase and use of these new products by consumers.

BENEFITS :-

· **Recycling Helps Protect The Environment**

Recycling sharply reduces the amount of waste that gets deposited in our landfills or burned in incinerator plants. Engineered landfills in most cities are designed to contain [|toxic chemicals] leaking from decaying solid waste from reaching our water systems. But, for how long? Already, we're getting reports of dangerous [|chemicals] contaminating water supplies in some cities. Burning solid waste for electricity may be efficient, but we pay the price in terms of increased [|carbon dioxide] and other greenhouse gas emissions.

· **Recycling Helps Conserve Limited Resources**

To put this benefit in proper perspective, let's consider this statement from the Pennsylvania Department of [|Environmental Protection] : "By recycling over 1 million tons of steel in 2004, Pennsylvanians saved 1.3 million tons of iron ore, 718,000 tons of coal, and 62,000 tons of limestone. Through recycling newsprint, office paper and mixed paper, we saved nearly over 8.2 million trees."

Resources like oil and precious metals (gold, silver, bauxite, [|copper], etc.) are all finite resources that will be exhausted, sooner or later. Cell phone and computer manufacturers, like Dell and Apple, recognize the need for a steady supply of raw materials - most are active in buy-back programs to recycle materials from used products.



· **Recycling Promotes [|Energy Efficiency] **

Recycling is far more efficient, in terms of energy consumption, than producing something out of fresh raw material. Done on a nationwide scale, this could lead to significant reduction in our energy costs. The energy required to extract, process, and transport metal from a mine to a refinery is obviously much greater than what's required to recycle metal from used products - it costs more energy to manufacture a brand new aluminum can from fresh material than to make 20 cans out of recycled materials!



· **Recycling Helps Build A Strong Economy**

Every cost-reduction, energy efficiency, materials conservation, and job generation benefit of recycling adds up to help build a strong economy for our country. Recycling, done on a country-wide scale, has a huge positive impact on the economy. There was dip in the price of recyclables last year when the financial crisis started, but it is testimony to the resiliency of this industry that prices are now back to pre-crisis levels - a recovery that's well ahead than most other industries. Jobs are being generated and city and town governments are enjoying huge savings in electricity, garbage collection, and landfilling costs.

· **Recycling Creates Jobs**

Recycling generates more jobs than landfilling or incinerating waste. That's a benefit we can't lose sight of, in this time of recession and high unemployment rate. Let's consider the disposal of 10,000 tons of solid waste: burning it for electricity will create 1 job; collecting and dumping this on a landfill will create 6 jobs; processing the waste for recyling will generate 36 jobs!

· **Recycling Can Be Financially Rewarding**

If you just want to make money to get by in these hard times or start a home business, recycling is a profitable option. It's relatively easy and inexpensive to start a home-based recycling business. You just need to plan on what material (cell phone, paper, or metals, etc.) you intend to collect, plan storage, contact the recycling plant for pricing, and you're set to start collecting recyclables and reselling these to the recycling facility at a decent profit. The large recycling giants in the US all started as home businesses years ago - you can do it, too - those guys just recognized the huge potential of this business well ahead of the crowd.

- TEJAS BAJAJ XI