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Is recycling worth the cost?

http://www.thinkcans.com/. Is recycling worth the cost?. By: Ian Nong and Daniel Sedano. http://www.impact-initiatives.org.uk/downloads/content/recycle%20symbol.jpg. Outline. Is Recycling Bad or Good? What Kinds of Recycling are There? All the Kinds of Recycling Were our Recycling Ends Up

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Is recycling worth the cost?

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  1. http://www.thinkcans.com/ Is recycling worth the cost? By: Ian Nong and Daniel Sedano http://www.impact-initiatives.org.uk/downloads/content/recycle%20symbol.jpg

  2. Outline • Is Recycling Bad or Good? • What Kinds of Recycling are There? • All the Kinds of Recycling • Were our Recycling Ends Up • What Can Recycling Do?

  3. Is Recycling Bad or Good? • Environment • Health • Money • Space on Earth http://www.cityoftulsa.org/Environment/Recycling/images/Binny.jpg

  4. Kinds of Recycling • Aluminum Cans • Glass • Newspapers • Plastic • Computers • Metals http://www.as.ucsb.edu/asr/images/GoletaMRFpictures/Recycling%20Trips%20062.jpg

  5. 5 billion sold $30 million available New Steel is 25% recycled Cans http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2004/story04-16-04.html

  6. Newspapers • Reading another newspaper • 17 Trees • 73% • 13 million made • 9 million • Decades http://www.planetark.com/recycling/pics/NewspapersBintop.jpg

  7. Parts reused Have hazardous materials Entire Computer Reduce Mining Computers http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/cc_graphics/electroscrap.jpg

  8. Where Our Recycling Ends Up • Paper into paper • Glass has after life • Bottles into toys • Factories WM.com

  9. What Can Recycling Do? • Trees • Energy • Landfill • Oil • Water • Limestone • Sand • Money http://www.eriding.net/media/photos/environment/recycling/050102_cbrown_mp_env_recycle013.jpg

  10. Is Recycling Worth The Cost ? YES

  11. Bibliography • http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775891.html • http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/EnvironmentalServices/RubbishRecyclingLitter/wheredoesrecyclego.asp • http://www.thinkcans.com/ • http://www.ehso.com/recyccomp.php • Ganeri, Anita. Something Old, Something New: Recycling. Ohio:Heinemann, 2005 • Donald, Rhonda. True Books: Environment. Connecticut, 2002 • Der Ryn, Sim Van. The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water. New York:Ecological Design Press, 1999

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