What is recycling?
• Recycling is a key component of
• Recycling is processing
used materials (waste) 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 as compared to
virgin production.
What are the 3Rs?
- Reuse
- Reduce
- Recycle
• To reuse is to use an
item more than once- used again
for the same/new function
How do recycling works?
• You should know each
categories and the recyclable
materials- include many kinds of
glass, paper, metal, plastic,
textiles, and electronics.
• Government provides
recycle bin at certain area in
town where you can send all the
materials that can be recycle.
Why is recycling better?
• The vast majority of studies
have found that recycling our
rubbish is better for the
environment rather than
incinerating or landfilling it.
• to create a viable economy
for proper disposal- to decrease
modern waste reduction and is
the third component of the
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste
hierarchy. In contrast, recycling
is the breaking down of the used
item into raw materials which
are used to make new items by
saving energy, time, money and
resources.
Waste hierarchy- refers to the 3R-
which classify waste management
strategies according to their
desirability
• To reduce is the
process and the policy of
reducing the amount of waste
produced- involves efforts to
minimize resource and energy
use during manufacture.
What is a recycling bin?
• A recycling bin (or recycle
bin) is a container used to hold
recyclables before they are
taken to recycling centers.
Recycling bins exist in various
sizes for use in homes, offices,
and large public facilities.
Separate containers are often
provided for paper, tin or
aluminum cans, and glass or
plastic bottles.
- Put the picture of the items
that can be recycle and the
the different type of recycle
bin
• Reduces our impact on
climate change -Although
recycling uses energy, overall it
reduces climate emissions, as
recycling a material generally
uses far less energy than
manufacturing from virgin
materials. For example, if you
 illegal dumping(landfill)
• saves raw materials
-Recycling reduces the need for
raw materials such as metals,
forests and oil and so reduces
our impact on the environment
• Helps us toward
sustainable living -Recycling is
one of the easiest ways they can
reduce their impact on the
environment and it is often the
first such action they take. It
introduces a “green”
consciousness to daily life.
Making people think about the
impact of their consumption and
production of waste can help to
encourage us to make lifestyle
decisions to reduce the waste we
create and our impact on the
environment and will help us
develop sustainably.
Why is it better than
incineration?
• Odor pollution can be a
problem with old-style
incinerators. Odors and dust are
extremely well controlled in
newer incineration plants - not
all plants are implemented this
way, resulting in inconveniences
in the locality
• The government and
environmental activists are
concern over health and
environmental risk - effects of
dioxin and furan
recycle waste paper you save
three times as much energy
as is produced by burning it to
produce energy. Recycling
plastic saves five times the
energy created by burning it.
•
• Costs less -The costs of
different waste management
techniques are subject to many
variables making it difficult to
distinguish between them in
purely economic terms.
However, when comparing
landfill, incineration and
recycling, recycling has
considerable economic merit.
• Produce greenhouse gases
like CO2, and also heavy metals,
particulates, sulphur dioxide,
acids, furan and dioxins.
• Although incineration may
reduce the bulk of waste, by
burning it away, the toxic by-
products produced are no longer
bound to stable materials and
maybe freely released into the
environment as gasses and
leachate.
• INCINERATION IS NOT
SUSTAINABLE. WHY?
-Waste mass is reduced, but at a high

DIOXIN(act as environmental
pollutants.):
• Developmental abnormalities in the
enamel of children's teeth.
• Central and peripheral nervous
system pathology
• Thyroid disorders
• Damage to the immune systems
cost of greater environmental pollution.
- A combination of recycling and
composting reduces global warming
gases some 46 times more than
incineration generating electricity.
- The social costs of incineration are
staggering especially in developing
countries. The huge amount of money
spent on incineration goes into building
these complicated machinery