Fun Recycling Facts

EXAMPLES OF RECYCLING:

• Recycling is turning used paper back into pulp and then making new paper from that pulp.
• Recycling is shredding plastics to make filling for jackets.
• Recycling is crushing used glass bottles into small pieces and melting them down to make new glass.
• Recycling is melting aluminum cans, pressing the molten metal into sheets as it cools, and shaping these sheets into new cans.
• Recycling is crushing old cars and melting them to reclaim the steel that is needed to make new cars.
• Recycling is chopping up grass cuttings and mixing them with organic garbage to make fertilizer.

Scouts, Can You Think of Your Own Examples of Recycling?

STEPS IN RECYCLING:

• Collecting: Gathering used materials like glass, metal, paper and plastic.
• Sorting: Separating these materials by type. Sorting is necessary because each of these materials must be recycled in a different way.
• Reclaiming: Doing something to collected materials to separate what is reusable from what is not. For example, metals are often melted during the reclamation process, and paper is soaked and washed.
• Reusing: Using reclaimed materials in new products.

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