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What is recycle and the history of recycle.
Recycle is one of the Campaign publish regarding Nature. 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. Recycling is a key component of modern
waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy.
Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable
waste – such as food or garden waste – is not typically considered
recycling. Materials to be
recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the
curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for
manufacturing.
In
the strictest sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of
the same material—for example, used office paper would
be converted into new office paper, or used foamed polystyrene into new polystyrene. However, this is
often difficult or too expensive (compared with producing the same product from
raw materials or other sources), so "recycling" of many products or
materials involves their reuse in
producing different materials (e.g., paperboard) instead.
Another form of recycling is the salvage of certain materials from complex
products, either due to their intrinsic value (e.g., lead from car batteries,
or gold from computer components), or due to their
hazardous nature (e.g., removal and reuse of mercury from various items). Critics dispute
the net economic and environmental benefits of recycling over its costs, and
suggest that proponents of recycling often make matters worse and suffer from confirmation bias.
Specifically, critics argue
that the costs and energy used in collection and transportation detract from
(and outweigh) the costs and energy saved in the production process; also that
the jobs produced by the recycling industry can be a poor trade for the jobs
lost in logging, mining, and other industries associated with virgin
production; and that materials such as paper pulp can only be recycled a few
times before material degradation prevents further recycling. Proponents of
recycling dispute each of these claims, and the validity of arguments from both
sides has led to enduring controversy.
In the United States the recycling "movement" began
in the late 1960s. Believing that Americans were consuming too much of the
world's resources - trees, minerals, fuel, water - environmental groups began
to stress recycling. But in the 60s and 70s the market for recyclables was not
substantial and recycling efforts dwindled. Authors Rathje and Murphy credit
Lady Bird Johnson and her beautification campaign for reviving recycling
initiatives. They point out that Mrs. Johnson's beautification campaign was in
fact a campaign against litter, "garbage that is out of place." When
Americans began to address the problem of litter by enacting bottle bills with
deposit fees and restrictions on pull-off tabs, beverage distributors began to
collect bottles and cans and sell them to scrap markets or reuse them. From
this flurry over litter, various recycling programs began to emerge all over
the country.
It was published on 1974 in Malaysia.It were publish for the sake
of reduce,recycle and reuse on waste hierarchy. There are 3 colours of bins,
which is blue colour bin is for papers, brown colour bin is for glasses and
Indigo colour is for plastic materials and metals. There are many issues which
gives negative effects to nature, part of it caused from dumping and wastage
which cause pollution. Therefore, the government has published the recycle
campaign with certain objective such as, to increase the understanding and
awareness on the importance of recycling to everyone. Other than that, to
increase the numbers of accompaniment of many parties such as housing
residents, industries and government and NGO agencies on recycling activities.
Based on it, we have to work together to save our nature, world and also the
ozone layer which getting thinner and thinner by following those campaigns such
as recycling the items that could recycle and reduce the cause of pollution
which cause from dumping the toxics and rubbish into the rivers, putting up fire's
in open surface and moreover.
In Malaysia we produce 19,000 tones of waste
every day, and a majority of that ends up in landfills. Malaysia currently has
230 landfill sights and 80% of them will reach capacity within the next two
years, and with land for landfill sights being at a premium there is soon going
to be a big problem right on our doorsteps.
To put in perspective 19,000 tonnes of rubbish,;
if you piled it all up it would be as high as 36 Petronas Twin Towers, that’s
an awful lot of rubbish to deal with on a daily basis.Our task now is to
try and reduce the amount of rubbish going into these landfills. If everybody does their little bit then it
amounts up to a lot.
Campaign's on recycle in malaysiaOne of the campaign in Malaysia CRC stands for Community Recycle Charity (CRC). It is an NPO, Charity organization founded on the year of 2007 with the aim to serve communities by helping those who are in need regardless of neither race nor religion.CRC is composed of young professionals who are determined to make our communities a better place with strength and integrity to bring about welfare for the needy in our communities through the work of recycling.
We exist to play a
proactive role to serve the needy in our communities by means of environmental
friendly practices of "RECYCLING". It is our aim to be the VOICE of
those in need, the ANSWER from those who are more fortunate.
CRC envisions
growing and becoming as one of the world’s leading generous Charity
organization in the world. It is our vision to generate ripples of love,
happiness & hope for the abandoned, the deprived, the abused, the sick and
disadvantaged all around the world. We’re also dedicated to support community
and school projects worldwide; to make life better and bring hope to those that
are less fortunate in life.
Our GOAL is to connect you with charities that you care about
in the most convenient, reliable and in as secure manner as possible. We’re not
limited to one type of Charity because we want to serve everyone that needs
help and we want to involve anyone who wants to help.
What are the agencies involved on recycling
Alam Flora also
plays role in go green campaign. In 1998, after taking over the
responsibility of solid waste management
in local authorities on interim basis, Alam Flora
has initiated several 3Rs programmes
in it's entire operational areas which include the states of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor
and Pahang in order to maximize collectio of recyclable
materials and minimise environmental degradation.
In1999, Alam Flora expanded it's operational areas to Federal Territory of Putrajaya. In year 2000,in response to the Ministry
of Housing and Local Government's declaration of November 1lth as the National Recycling Day, more programmes were planned
and implemented in subsequent years. In year 2004, Putrajaya was selected by the ministry to be the model city
for recycling. These efforts were in line
with Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management & over feature Act 2007 where
separation at source is made mandatory for the waste generators. This paper outlines
the economic potential of recycling material
from them unicipal solid waste stream and highlights efforts made by Alam Flora in promoting and implementing
activities to the improve the implementation of 3R concept in Malaysia
Table on recycable items
| Area |
Organic waste (% by weight)
|
Recyclable items (% by weight)
|
Others
(% by weight)
|
| Kota Kemuning |
58
|
18
|
24
|
| Selayang |
66
|
19
|
15
|
| Putrajaya |
63
|
32
|
5
|
| AVERAGE |
62
|
23
|
15
|
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